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34  -  Paul Pierce - SG/SF, 6'7, 235 Boston Celtics - Drafted 10th overall in 1998

Date of birth: 10/13/1977        Country: USA      Drafted (NBA): 10th pick, 1998      Out of: Kansas   NBA Experience: 14 years   Hand: Right  Agent: Jeff Schwartz (Excel Sports Management)

When:	Where:
1995 - 1998	Kansas (NCAA)
June 1998 - present	Boston Celtics (NBA)

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Date League Transaction 1998 NBA Draft NBA Drafted 10th overall by Boston. 22nd January, 1999 NBA Signed four year, approx. $6.6 million rookie scale contract with Boston. Included team option for 2001/02. 13th October, 2000 NBA Boston exercised 2001/12 team option. 1st August, 2001 NBA Signed a six year, $80,273,731 extension with Boston. Included early termination option after 2006/07 season. 17th July, 2006 NBA Signed a three year, $59,387,136 extension with Boston. Included early termination option after 2009/10 season. Concurrent to the extension, Pierce declined his 2007/08 early termination option. 29th June, 2010 NBA Exercised early termination option and became a free agent. 9th July, 2010 NBA Re-signed by Boston to a partially guaranteed four year, $61,333,334 contract.

From blog:

Creative Financing in the NBA, 2010

2010-08-12

In re-signing for four years and $80 million with the Dallas Mavericks, Dirk Nowitzki was able to secure himself only the second no-trade clause in the league. The other one belongs to Kobe Bryant. Not many players are eligible for no-trade clauses; to be eligible, a player has to have 8 years of NBA experience, at least four years of which have to have been with the team he's signing with (albeit not necessarily consecutive years). Other eligible players such as Paul Pierce and Tim Duncan could have had them worked into their most recent contracts, but didn't; then again, they didn't really need to. They're not being traded. Not now, not ever. [read full post]

2010 Free Agency, Preliminary Round

2010-07-01

The following players opted out: - Boston = Paul Pierce [read full post]

Chicago's Last Resort Offseason Plan That Still Manages To Avoid Signing Joe Johnson

2010-06-14

(The Cliff Notes version of my alternative non-Jamesy plan - sign Dirk Nowitzki for a hell of a lot of money; trade Kirk Hinrich to Orlando for Marcin Gortat and a signed-and-traded Anthony Johnson; sign Roger Mason, Marcus E. Williams, Brian Skinner and Eddie House; draft Xavier Henry, and buy a mid-second rounder and use it on Trevor Booker. But I'm fully expecting Dirk to re-sign with Dallas, as should you. There is barely such a thing as a lifer in today's NBA, but Dirk, Paul Pierce, Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant should be four examples of such. In fact, if they're not, something's gone gravely wrong and people must be held accountable.) [read full post]

Current Trade Kickers

2010-06-11

There follows a list of all current NBA contracts that feature trade kickers, in contracts valid as of the time of writing, along with the value of them. Note that trade kickers have no expiry date other than the expiration of the contract itself, and that having a percentage listed means that's the percentage of their remaining salary that they will additionally get with the bonus. - Carmelo Anthony (lesser of 5% or $1 million) - Ron Artest (15%) - Andrea Bargnani (5%) - Charlie Bell (15%) - Shannon Brown (15%) - Kobe Bryant (10%) - Jose Calderon (10%) - Eddy Curry (greater of 15% or $5 million) - Sam Dalembert (15%) - Tim Duncan (15%) - Jeff Foster (lesser of 15% or $1 million) - Pau Gasol (15%) - Manu Ginobili (5%) - LeBron James (15%) - James Jones (15%) - Chris Kaman (lesser of 15% or $4 million) - Shawn Marion (15%) - Roger Mason Jr (lesser of 15% or $375,000, but is expiring anyway) - Antonio McDyess (10%) - Yao Ming (15%) - Chris Paul (15%) - Morris Peterson (7.5%) - Paul Pierce (8%) - James Posey (10%) - Joel Przybilla (15%) - Brandon Roy (lesser of 15% or $4 million) - Josh Smith (15%) - Peja Stojakovic (10%) - Amare Stoudemire (15%) - Hedo Turkoglu (15%) - Anderson Varejao (5%) - Dwayne Wade (15%) - Rasheed Wallace (15%) - Luke Walton (7.5%) [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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