Kristic Headed to Moscow

[.loggie]

Agent Marc Cornstein has confirmed to Chad Ford of ESPN.com that former Net Nenad Krstic has officially signed a two year contract with Triumph Moscow early Tuesday morning.

The deal is worth around $9 million per year in the United States once you factor in the exchange rate and the fact that European clubs pay all the players' taxes, according to Ford.

Krstic joins Josh Childress, Bostjan Nachbar, Juan Carlos Navarro, Jorge Garbajosa, Carlos Delfino and Primoz Brezec as NBA players who opted to play for more money overseas this year. Three of the six are Cornstein clients.

According to the report, Cornstein worked until midnight Eastern time trying to find an NBA team willing to pay Krstic at least a mid-level contract to keep him in the NBA, but after the deadline passed Kstic signed the European deal.

"I think you almost have NBA teams being overly cautious at this point," one Eastern Conference GM told Insider. "With so many teams so close to the luxury tax, teams are unwilling to take risks. Krstic was a risk. A small one, but a risk. We are certainly seeing the effects of the collective bargaining agreement this year. But these things are cyclical. If a lot of teams had cap room, Childress, Krstic and others would be playing in the NBA."

another one..

 

[VC15]

He was never the same after his knee injury... Hopefully he can bounce back from it while in Russia.

 

[.loggie]

i bet he'll come back to the NBA in a couple of years though.

 

[DC4]

another one.....

 

[.GR]

Now Im starting to worry a lil...

 

[Pugz]

At one point, the Grizzlies were offering a package that included either Kyle Lowry or Javaris Crittenton for Nenad Krstic.

The Bulls have a $5.2 million trade exception from the Ben Wallace/Larry Hughes trade and were contemplating throwing in a future first-round pick.

He could have been in the NBA if the Nets weren't idiots..

 

[.loggie]

He could have been in the NBA if the Nets weren't idiots..

true that, but in the long run i think theyd end up rebuilding anyway. their really looking good with the roster they have now. very young with a bright future

 

[VC15]

Saving up for LeBron in 2010... He was asking for too much and didn't do enough good consistently.

 

[NjNets15]

No it had nothing to do with the Nets, he was a free agent he could've signed on offer sheet, hes getting 5 mil a year in Russia, NO Nba team was giving him that

 

[bosox1918]

And yet another NBA player falls victim to the other side of the globe.