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15  -  Amir Johnson - PF, 6'9, 210 Toronto Raptors - Acquired via trade in August 2009

Date of birth: 05/01/1987        Country: USA      Drafted (NBA): 56th pick, 2005      Out of: Westchester HS   NBA Experience: 7 years   Hand: Right  Agent: Bill Duffy/Kevin Bradbury (BDA Sports). Formerly Arn Tellem.

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From blog:

Creative Financing in the NBA, 2010

2010-08-12

- One of the first signings announced in this free agency period was that of Amir Johnson, who last year backed up Chris Bosh in Toronto. He played well, being possibly Toronto's best defender and averaging 6/5 in 17.7 minutes per game with a PER of 16.7. The Raptors re-signed Johnson to a deal worth $30 million in base compensation (not $34 million as was widely reported), with incentives in the deal to potentially boost its value that are currently listed as "unlikely." Amir's contract before incentives will pay him $5,000,000 next year, rising by $500,000 annually to a total of $7 million in the fifth and final year. However, that $7 million salary in the final year is only $5 million guaranteed; if Toronto (or whoever owns him at that time) waives him, that's all they'll pay him. He'll be off the team, of course, yet the team will save $2 million. [...] In Amir Johnson's case, the unguaranteed portion of the deal means very little. His contract currently costs $6 million annually; all that waiving him will do will raise that per annum cost to $7 million. As unguaranteed contracts go, it's almost as useless as Eduardo Najera's current one, which had all but $500,000 guaranteed in his final two savings, for no obvious reason. (It is now fully guaranteed.) Nevertheless, the trend for including a partially guaranteed final season/s for non-star players continues. [read full post]

NBA Free Agency Movement, Part 1

2010-07-02

- Lastly, Marc Spears of Yahoo just broke the story that Toronto have agreed to terms with backup forward [read full post]

New Jersey......Toronto.......London.

2011-03-10

Aside from Derozan and the Waves, the other big cheer came for Sundiata Gaines, recent ten day contract signee of the Nets and a former Raptors guard, who came in for the first time in the fourth quarter and pretty much won the Nets the game. With his 7 points and 2 assists in the final 7 minutes of the fourth quarter, Gaines effectively closed out the game for New Jersey, the welcome recipient of a Toronto lineup that could not stop anybody for more than one possession in a row, and which also couldn't make a basket below the six minute mark. There was also quite a big cheer when Brook Lopez and the otherwise silent Amir Johnson (who somehow recorded a -31 in a game that was close throughout) threatened to throw hands after a hard foul in the fourth quarter. [read full post]

Current Trade Kickers

2010-06-11

[...] You only get one trade kicker per contract; that is to say, if you sign a contract with a trade kicker in it, the trade kicker is only applied to the first trade that contract is in and not to any subsequent contracts. (The exception is with sign and trades, where the first trade - the sign and trade - is ignored, and the trade kicker is applied to the next subsequent trade. This is why Peja is listed above.) Because of that, there are a good many players whose current contracts featured trade kickers that have already been invoked. Here they are now, along with the value of their kicker. Note: only currently-being-paid contracts are listed, and the player doesn't necessarily have to be on an NBA roster any more. - Tony Battie (10%) - Mark Blount (15%) - Bruce Bowen (lesser of 15% or $300,000) - Devin Brown (10%) - Greg Buckner (5%) - Kevin Garnett (15%) - Drew Gooden (5%) - Eddie House (7.5%) - Steven Hunter (7.5%) - Zydrunas Ilgauskas (15%) - Mike James (5%) - Jared Jeffries (15%) - Amir Johnson (15%) - Mikki Moore (12.5%) - Shaquille O'Neal (15%) - Quentin Richardson (7.5%) - John Salmons (15%) - Bobby Simmons (10%) - Etan Thomas (15%) - Damien Wilkins (10%, only up to $1.2 mil) [read full post]

Note: Non-US teams that the player has played for are, unless stated otherwise, from the top division in that nation. If league or division name is expressly stated, it's not the top division. The only exceptions to this are the rare occasions where no one league is said to be above the other, such as with the JBL/BJ League split inJapan. In the event where more than one agent is listed, this is because the player has more than one agent. This is rather commonplace - a lot of times, a player will sign with a big agency, and they will have both primary and secondary agents from within that agency to handle their affairs. (Where that happens, the primary agent is listed first.) Also, foreign players tend to have both American and domestic agents. Where the details of such are known, they are listed.

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