The Daily Herald is reporting that Ben Gordon has been in contract talks with CSKA Moscow about a one-year deal worth about $5.5 million.
The Chicago Bulls and Ben Gordon have been negotiating all summer, and it was recently reported that the Bulls have offered Gordon a five-year deal worth around $59 million.
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The talks with CSKA can be taken one of two ways—he is talking with CSKA in order to get the Bulls to pay up, or that he really does not want to play with the Bulls ever again, even if that means playing for less money.
I do believe that these talks with CSKA will force the Bulls to either put the money up to keep him in a Bulls uniform, or trade him away so they do not lose his value.
Either way, I do not believe that Ben Gordon will bolt for Europe, because he loves the NBA and there is more money to be made in America—even if he only accepts the qualifying offer.
But I suppose stranger things have happened.
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2 months ago
When I first read this I was stunned. How far has Gordon fallen with the organization? He was our go-to guy in every close game, and all of a sudden because he can't be the highest paid player on the Bulls he is willing to spend a year in Russia? Yikes!
He really has no leverage here either. Many teams can have him for a fair price, but no one has really asked about him because he is so one-dimensional. He needs to realize that he is the best 6th man in the NBA and understand the Bulls are the right team for him.
2 months ago
Sam,
"all of a sudden because he can't be the highest paid player on the Bulls"
-Did Gordon mention this, as his desire? His intent?
If not, then...how can you folk have nerve to come up with this obfuscatory-gobbledygook? It's bordering, phenomenal, too. Plus, 5yrs./$59-million, does average out to nearly $10-million per year. But we're supposed to believe, because some team on the other side of the world HAS OFFERED HIM ABOUT HALF-THAT AMOUNT then, he's seriously considering it out of a desire of wanting to be The Bulls highest-paid player???
Wow!
Some of you cats really do need to start re-considering some of the stuff you post here on this site, before hitting "submit".
from 2 months ago
Thank you for the comment yung. Let me point out that this is from a Daily Herald article so I didn't just pulls this one out of my ass. The reason he would consider going to the Euroleague is because he wants to play, in Chicago his minutes are going to be cut with so many guards on their roster such as Sefolosha, Hughes, Hinrich and Rose. He doesn't want to be that 6th or 7th guy off the bench because he thinks he is a starting two guard in this league, which he might be on a guard shallow team but not a the Bulls or any good team.
from 2 months ago
He also believes he can get more money next off-season when he is a UFA. He doesn't think sitting on the bench will get him the money he "deserves"
2 months ago
he would be good off the bench for the Bulls, but not for that kind of money.
2 months ago
The simple fact is, the Bulls are better with Gordon off the bench. Not only does he play better, but the team does also. He either needs to face the facts, or move on, a replacement for Ben Gordon is not that hard to find in this league.
from 2 months ago
I completely agree
2 months ago
Michael,
can you link up at least an article or two, validating this huge money concern? Because, to me, $60-Million is not peanuts, especially versus his current contract...so I just don't see the accuracy in your claim about his desire to get so so much more
from 2 months ago
http://www.prosportsdaily.com/comments/gap-still-big-between-gordon-and-the-bulls-07-29-2008.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cs-080815-ben-gordon-chicago-bulls,0,6981613.story
Gordon turned down a five-year, $50-million extension last summer. The most the Bulls can offer without incurring the luxury tax is a six-year, $58 million deal. Gordon seeks upward of $72 million.
2 months ago
Eddie,
Like I said before, you miserable lil' pro-Racist you...keep the *e-stalker posts* coming pal!
from 2 months ago
Seems to me that you now have a stalker of your own, yungCaucasoid. How does it feel to have the proverbial 'shoe on the other foot'?
All I can say is: GO, EDDIE, GO!
2 months ago
Gaz,
since I have a feeling you are "yungNegroid" then, stop lying to yourself; You wrote the book on stalking, and don't forget:
I knew nothing about you and never posted a word to your nor about you, nor...even knew you existed on this site. Until, one day you intro'd yourself by butting-in on my exchange with another pro-Racist member from your posse. You then, chimed in with my post count, my post History, words from my profile I created, and even listed the date they show me joining this site----------all that about a person who had never posted so much as, one word, to you.
So, again, you wrote the book on stalking and the book on *losing self-control* too, considering the "yungNigg" login account you went and created out of frustration from me pummeling your pro-Racist mindset, to smitherings here on this site.
who ya foolin'?
2 months ago
Jericho,
You're correct that he's a much more effective player ---toward victories--- when coming off of the bench. He especially showed that during his rookie year. His show was phenomenal, and we'd seen nothing like it in decades, from a rookie.
But I can Understand how, if you're team is losing all of them time, then it 'weighs on a player' to sit/watch those who's skill doesn't measure up to his.
So to everything you posted, other than that? I say, please ----stop dreaming!---- or else, list one single sole AVAILABLE PLAYER IN THE NBA ******who comes off the bench in the 4th-quarters of Games***** and does it like Gordon does it. Please? I dare you!
2 months ago
Michael,
thanks for the links.
from 2 months ago
No problem always like to sow my sources, hope they are to your liking.
2 months ago
Well, I can name you that replacement, but he doesnt have to come off the bench. DERRICK ROSE!!! Him being drafted makes Ben Gordon extremely expendable
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