So you dropped $1,800 on an ash tray for the Kardashian-Humphries wedding. And that bargain priced, non-refundable 41-game parking plan you bought in Newark for home games doesn’t look like such a bargain now. The home opener was supposed to be last night. What else could possibly go wrong for lockout-whipped Nets fans?
Deron Williams is blogging about being undecided about his plans and talking of renting not buying when he returns from Turkey after the lockout ends.
Williams can opt out of the final year of his contract, worth $17,779,458 for 2012-13, when (if) this season ever ends. That decision affects every phase of the Nets operation, of course. And Williams has said virtually everything the Nets want to hear about staying.
Until now.
In his latest blog from Turkey, where he has been playing during the NBA lockout, Williams did not sound like a guy who is completely committed to the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets.
“The lockout is still going … f the CBA is finalized and I’ll need to come back to the NBA, I think it takes some time for them to get everything on paper, maybe three or four weeks. If we make a deal, I’ll try to come back as soon as possible,” he wrote. “As far as living, I don’t have a place in New Jersey yet. I don’t want to buy anywhere, just planning to rent for now. I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do after the NBA season. We’ll see.”
When and if the lockout ends, the Nets will move to drastically upgrade talent, looking to improve primarily at the forward spots. Even with nine players holding guaranteed deals, plus two rookies and Travis Outlaw who could be an amnesty case, the Nets’ cap space should be in the $20 million area.