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Originally Posted by Groundhog
So, a move I've been expecting for some time: A Euro team offers a decent NBA free agent a contract better than he can likely get in the NBA.
Childress is one of those guys who is probably worth more than the MLE, but obviously not a max contract, and those guys are the biggest losers in the NBA right now, where it is basically max, MLE, or min. A Greek team has offered him a 20mil (can't seem to verify if that's US$ or Euro$) over 3 years deal.
He's probably going to try and use it as leverage with Atlanta, but I don't think it's out of the question for him to wind up accepting it.
Then we've also got Brandon Jennings, the High Schooler who didn't get the grades so is off to play in Europe as well.
Could get interesting if the Euro continues to climb against the US$.
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Another note is that the Greek team is willing to pay his taxes for the contract (will he still have to pay US taxes).