 Addendum to the Xavier Henry thing
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| 2011-09-18 |
It no longer matters, but, for point of reference, four year 120% contracts for [Xavier] Henry and [Greivis] Vasquez will total a combined $15,167,563. Contrastly, 100% scale contracts for the two of them would have totalled a combined $12,639,636. That is a difference of $2,527,927, over four years, for a combined eight years of service between the two players. That total amount is less than they just sold Dominique Jones for, less than they just gave Tony Allen, less than they got for taking on Steven Hunter's deal last year, and less than 40% of what they're still paying Marko Jaric, a man currently without a job. Worse still, Henry and Vasquez would probably have met those minute incentives - if not in year one, then through the remainder of the contract. The savings, therefore, would have been even less. Yet that comparatively trivial amount was deemed enough to risk everything.
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Where Are They Now, 2010 Summer League
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| 2010-09-17 |
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Creative Financing in the NBA, 2010
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| 2010-08-12 |
Henry was the right pick, and Vasquez was OK, but a team ostensibly designed (if not mandated) to build through the draft decided to sell a first rounder (Dominique Jones, #25) for $3 million, which seems like a hypocrisy and a grave misallocation of assets. (It's an even graver error when that $3 million is instantly invested in Tony Allen, who will earn that much just to play 1,500 minutes at backup shooting guard next year. In a role Dominique Jones could easily have played. For less money. And for four years.)
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2010 Summer League Rosters: Dallas Mavericks
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| 2010-07-10 |
 Dominique Jones
Dallas bought Memphis's draft rights from Memphis on draft night, despite Memphis's supposed designs on being a team that builds through the draft. It gives Dallas a younger and better replacement for DeShawn Stevenson. This probably wasn't their highest priority of the summer, but it's a welcome bonus nonetheless.
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Sham's 2010 NBA Draft Night Recap, Part 1
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| 2010-06-27 |
Pick 25: Memphis drafts Dominique Jones, their second shooting guard of the draft. Orange Juice Mayonnaise really is moving to point guard, then. The pick is consummated by a camera shot of a Grizzlies fan, who shrugs like Nostradamus and openly mouths to the camera "I don't know who that is." Good times. I've felt that pain, brother.
Always willing to pass along some biological field notes, Bilas remarks that Jones is "not a run and jump athlete", but can "get into your body, absorb a bump, and still score." Oh, and he also points out his good wingspan.
Better still, "His father Norman is a plumber" is a sentence that hasn't been used on an NBA draft night broadcast since 1964.
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