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Thursday, November 1st, 2007  |  16 Comments

Big Al to Stay in Minny for a While


The Minnesota Timberwolves and center Al Jefferson have agreed to a five-year, $65 million extension. My, my, that’s a lot of dough for a twenty-two year old.

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16 Responses to “Big Al to Stay in Minny for a While”

Nov.1 at 9:53 am

TADOne says:
Wow, you would think they would wait and see how he performs in actual games 1st…..

Nov.1 at 10:07 am

Keith says:
Minnesota making yet another wise decision. Although, in actuality, I think he’s got a lot of upside.

Nov.1 at 10:33 am

Tarzan's Jane says:
What the heck? They might as give me (a girl) $65 million and send me on the court. I could use that kinda money too. Haha!

Nov.1 at 10:36 am

Keith says:
Would you take anything less? Maybe 20 mill and a romantic dinner date with Kevin McHale?

Nov.1 at 10:40 am

Blue says:
…And so it begins again. T-wolves locking up a player and (subsequently) their free agency money. Talk about missing the f*cking point.

Nov.1 at 10:54 am

Cosmo says:
According to www.allthingshoops.com, it’s actually 55 million with 10 million in incentives and signing bonus. I believe the Wolves low balled big Al.

Nov.1 at 11:30 am

Captain America says:
You’re kidding right? I’ll take a 22-year-old Al Jefferson, who is capable of posting KG numbers, for $13M/year, over a 32-year-old, $23M/year KG. In other news, Gerald Green’s fourth year extension was not picked up.

Nov.1 at 11:47 am

SMK says:
Big Al has the best post game since Hakeem, though stylistically (and defensively) they’re worlds apart. If he develops a face-up game you’re looking at 20 and 12 every night on the regular, with the occasional 30-20 against teams with no bigs (I’m looking at you, Warriors).

Nov.1 at 12:23 pm

JR says:
sweet now we might get the second pick instead of the first.

Nov.1 at 12:24 pm

JR says:
anyone whos a wolves fan click the link on my name and we need to make that happen now.

Nov.1 at 12:29 pm

Captain America says:
Al Jefferson doesn’t whine about losing players (what is Sprewell doin’ now?).

Nov.1 at 1:14 pm

jawn says:
Big Al’s potential is off the charts. If they can develop this dude, then they probably underpaid him. it was a pretty good gamble when you think about it. Say Al blossoms, then you have 2-3 years to have an All-star playing at 13 million a year. If he doesn’t then you have kwame brown. most of these waste of space bigmen make about 13 a year so that makes a lot of sense.

Nov.1 at 2:21 pm

Blue says:
I don’t doubt Big Al’s talent or potential, but what exactly does “another direction” mean? To me, it just seems that they are doing the exact same thing they did before. I really like the wolves…I just hope they don’t repeat past mistakes.

Nov.1 at 2:25 pm

Myles Brown says:
I’m looking forward to that Dwight Howard matchup next week.

Nov.1 at 6:21 pm

Tarzan Cooper says:
that should be nice myles. is that going to be televized. i know damn well you wont respond because everyone is done with todays posts.

Nov.1 at 7:05 pm

Blue says:
T Cooper: Looks like it will be aired locally on FSN and Sun Sports but no national coverage. I seriously doubt there will be very many national games for the T-Wolves this year.

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