Derrick Favors and the Jazz agreed to a contract extension that will pay him $49 million and could pay the him more than $50 million if he meets some performance incentives. The deal will kick in starting in 2014-15.
Why Derrick Favors got paid
Jim Urquhart-USA TODAY SportsFavors isn’t quite there yet, but he’s a) pretty damn good on defense, b) 22 years old and c) 6’10.
But Presti’s building a Spursian model in OKC, and you can’t really afford to goes absolutely nuts in any given season. It’s not sustainable, and when you’re not building a sustainable model in a small market, you get into a painful boom-bust cycle that causes major revenue problems.
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