What a low blow dealt to the Cavaliers

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So much for verbal understandings.

Carlos Boozer and the Utah Jazz have agreed on a six-year, $68 million offer sheet, ESPN's David Aldridge reports, sending a crushing blow to the Cleveland Cavaliers, who made Boozer an unrestricted free agent with the belief he would re-sign with them for their mid-level exception.

Earlier Thursday, ESPN Insider Chad Ford reported that the Jazz had canceled a planned visit by the Nets' Kenyon Martin because they were preparing to make Boozer the offer to which he has now agreed.

The huge offer, coming after Boozer drew interest from half a dozen teams once he hit the free-agent market, proves the Cavaliers made a significant mistake in relinquishing their contractual rights to Boozer for the upcoming season.

Boozer, recently named to the U.S. Olympic team, could have been Cleveland's next season for $695,000, but the Cavaliers did not pick up their option after, the club said, Boozer had committed to re-signing for the team's full mid-level exception -- somewhere around six years and $40 million.

Now Cleveland almost certainly cannot retain Boozer. While the Cavs have the right to match the Utah offer, they are only about $4 million under the current cap and would have to trade and/or renounce the rights to a number of players to clear enough room to sign Boozer.

According to sources, the Jazz began serious negotiations with Boozer around the Fourth of July and finished the deal Wednesday night, capping a huge offseason for Utah.

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So the Cavs could have just kept Boozer for this year and made him play for the $695,000 he was contractually obligated to play for. But instead, they try to do the right thing by him and let him out of that contract to pay him over $40 million for the next 6 years. Boozer agrees to sign the long term deal in exchange for the Cavs voiding the last year of his current contract. Then Boozer says "Thanks for voiding that contract, but my word isn't worth $hit. I'm taking the Utah Jazz money and running" :ph34r:

I've seen some screwed up stuff in sports lately, but this takes the cake for me. As many of you know, I am a huge Cavaliers fan and was a huge Carlos Boozer fan. I never would have figured Boozer for a back stabbing sell-out, but I guess I'm not the only one who didn't see it coming.

I just hope now that the Cavs don't try to match the deal. Carlos is a very good player, but no way is he worth tying up $68 million in cap space for the next 6 years.

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I read that today. Lets look at 6yrs for $68 Million and then look at 6yrs and $48 Million. I know which way I would go. Now a days its about the Money. If you got Money to spend you can have great players on the Team, But how long is that Team gonna stay together?? I'm watching to see whats gonna happen with Rasheed Wallace, He's got his Championship and with him winning the Championship this year with the Pistons I about betcha he'll go where the money is good. :cheers:
 
Today it seems the only thing that matters is money, there is very little loyalty left. That goes for both sides of the coin too, some of the owners do a lot of dealing below the belt to get the good players. Back in the 80s the NBA was so much better IMO, it didn't have nearly the amount of unappreciative punks playing. There was loyalty, teams stuck together more, and i think the game was better for it. There is a lot of talent out there, but that talent doesn't seem to concern themselves with ethics. There are a few in the league that have class, these days though if i want to watch good basketball i'll watch college or high school hoop.
 
I'm no longer in shock, but am still pretty angry about the whole deal.

I do understand wanting to get more money. But, I also understand that he would not have gotten that money if the Cavaliers hadn't let him out of the last year of his contract. They would have never let him out of that contract without an agreement from him to sign for the $40+ million over the next 6 years the Cavaliers had offered him.

Every time I start getting happy with the NBA again, something happens to tick me off again.

Oh well, they still have Lebron (from my hometown by the way) and they will still win a lot of games. :)

I am just curious what they will do now with the cap space they now have. :mellow:
 
Karma goes along way 4x. If you want to feel better, check out the forums at Bernies insiders. I hope Carlos enjoys Utah cause he'll pay for it in the future. From this day forward, no matter what Booz does, this will be his legacy.


p.s. I hear David Stern is very interested in the whole thing. It is also feasable for the Cavs to match Utals offer, then trade him to the Clippers.
 
There is more and more information coming out in this deal the more time passes.

As it turns out Carlos and his wife assured Gordon Gund (the Cavaliers blind owner) personally that they wanted to stay in Cleveland and raise their kids there in a meeting on June 30th. This meeting was held on the last day the Cavaliers had to exercise their option on him for this year at $695,000.

Present at the meeting were Carlos Boozer, his wife and his agent. Representing the Cavaliers at the meeting were Gordon Gund and GM John Paxson. They talked at great length about what Carlos would do if he were offered a large sum of money while he was technically a free agent. The Cavaliers also wanted to make sure that Carlos understood that he would proably make a lot more money if he played out the year and then tested the free agent market because the Cavs could only offer him $40 million for 6 years with the salary cap space they had.

Carlos and his wife assured them that they wanted the security of a long term deal now, even if it meant sacrificing much more money a year from now.

On July 1st Carlos and his wife and his agent appeared before the media pledging their gratitude for and commitment to the Cavs long term.

On July 3rd Carlos had his cell phone disconnected. This is the only way the Cavs had been able to contact him up until that point. :ph34r:

The next thing the Cavaliers heard was that he had accepted an offer from the Jazz.
 
Rob Pelinka just resigned as Carlos Boozer's agent in shame. He has come under intense criticism since word got out about how they screwed over the Cavaliers.

The best part about this is that he won't get a penny of the money Boozer receives from the Jazz if he signs the deal that trashed Pelinka's reputation. :D
 
More good news today. The Cavaliers announced they have no intention of matching Utah's offer sheet.

I did find it pretty ammusing that Carlos Boozer was accusing the Cavaliers of "character assasination".

How can you attack someone's character when they obviously have none at all? :rolleyes:
 
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