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Greek Team To Offer Kobe Three Year $83M Deal
It looks like Josh Childress may not be the highest-paid player in Europe for long. In last Sunday’s NEW YORK TIMES, Olympiakos co-owner Panayiotis Angelopoulos issued a warning to NBA clubs thinking their players would stay stateside, saying (emphasis ours), “I think we’ll see a day when a superstar player comes to Europe, but to Olympiacos, not to another team,” he said. “That is my answer. Maybe it will be very soon. Maybe then you realize what I’m telling you is serious.”
Guess what? It appears that Olympiacos is, in fact, serious, as reports are surfacing that the club is preparing an offer for Kobe Bryant. We’re talking 60 million Euro (about $83 million right now) over 3 years. THE HOOP has more details on the perks of the contract, and they are pretty damned nice:
In that contract there will be an incredible list of benefits, a villa in the Mediterranean Sea, pay all the taxes at the expense of the club, to pay the bills for the staff and for a private boat for Kobe Bryant. The article also says that they are planning to form Olympiakos into an NBA style club with a court that fits 15-20 thousand seats and a private jet for the team.
Let’s see, get treated like a king in one of the most beautiful countries in the world while balling against, er, inconsistent competition, or have Phil Jackson yell at you while Sasha Vujacic bricks another 19-footer? Seems like the decision would be pretty easy.
And really, it’s not as if there’s an avalanche of reasons for Kobe to stay over here. He’s already got rings and an MVP award. If you think winning an NBA title as the #1 guy would sate his ego, well A: not for long, and B: not nearly as much as becoming the Michael Jordan of Europe.
To act as if there’s no precedence for a movie like this would be shortsighted. Kobe’s arrival would be a mix of the arrivals of David Beckham and Pele in American soccer, as Kobe’s not nearly as old as Pele but not nearly as ineffectual as Beckham. Quick aside, totally hypothetical here, but if people come to your hypothetical soccer games just to look for your hypothetical alien stick wife while you sit on the hypothetical bench, you are not hypothetically helping the sport.
Anyway, Kobe’s under contract for another three years, so it’s not like we’ve seen him play his last game as a Laker unless a freak farm accident severs both Kobe’s legs (and what would he be doing on a farm in the first place, anyway?). Laker brass should be awfully wary, though, as the allure of being credited for taking high-level professional basketball worldwide might be too much for Bryant to resist. It’s going to be someone, and it’s going to be soon.
Greek Team To Offer Kobe Three Year $83M Deal
It looks like Josh Childress may not be the highest-paid player in Europe for long. In last Sunday’s NEW YORK TIMES, Olympiakos co-owner Panayiotis Angelopoulos issued a warning to NBA clubs thinking their players would stay stateside, saying (emphasis ours), “I think we’ll see a day when a superstar player comes to Europe, but to Olympiacos, not to another team,” he said. “That is my answer. Maybe it will be very soon. Maybe then you realize what I’m telling you is serious.”
Guess what? It appears that Olympiacos is, in fact, serious, as reports are surfacing that the club is preparing an offer for Kobe Bryant. We’re talking 60 million Euro (about $83 million right now) over 3 years. THE HOOP has more details on the perks of the contract, and they are pretty damned nice:
In that contract there will be an incredible list of benefits, a villa in the Mediterranean Sea, pay all the taxes at the expense of the club, to pay the bills for the staff and for a private boat for Kobe Bryant. The article also says that they are planning to form Olympiakos into an NBA style club with a court that fits 15-20 thousand seats and a private jet for the team.
Let’s see, get treated like a king in one of the most beautiful countries in the world while balling against, er, inconsistent competition, or have Phil Jackson yell at you while Sasha Vujacic bricks another 19-footer? Seems like the decision would be pretty easy.
And really, it’s not as if there’s an avalanche of reasons for Kobe to stay over here. He’s already got rings and an MVP award. If you think winning an NBA title as the #1 guy would sate his ego, well A: not for long, and B: not nearly as much as becoming the Michael Jordan of Europe.
To act as if there’s no precedence for a movie like this would be shortsighted. Kobe’s arrival would be a mix of the arrivals of David Beckham and Pele in American soccer, as Kobe’s not nearly as old as Pele but not nearly as ineffectual as Beckham. Quick aside, totally hypothetical here, but if people come to your hypothetical soccer games just to look for your hypothetical alien stick wife while you sit on the hypothetical bench, you are not hypothetically helping the sport.
Anyway, Kobe’s under contract for another three years, so it’s not like we’ve seen him play his last game as a Laker unless a freak farm accident severs both Kobe’s legs (and what would he be doing on a farm in the first place, anyway?). Laker brass should be awfully wary, though, as the allure of being credited for taking high-level professional basketball worldwide might be too much for Bryant to resist. It’s going to be someone, and it’s going to be soon.
Tue, Jan 20 F Marvin Williams and former Atlanta Hawks teammate Josh Childress remain the closest of friends despite all the thousands of miles that separate them. And while they've kept in regular contact via email and text, they'd spoken on the phone only a couple times since Childress left for Greece. That's how Williams knew something was going on when he missed a call from Childress before the Hawks' knocked off Chicago Tuesday night at United Center. "I knew something had to be up if he was calling," Williams. That something was breaking news from much closer to home than Williams imagined. Childress had sports hernia surgery Tuesday in Philadelphia and will be out for six to eight weeks, providing an early return stateside, even if it is just for a month or so. "I'll be doing rehab in Los Angeles for about a month," Childress said via text Tuesday afternoon. "It was a small tear in my lower abdomen. But I'm good." He joins a growing list of injured Hawks, former and present. Williams (concussion) and Al Horford (knee) are day-to-day, while reserve guard Acie Law IV is out seven-to-10 days with a right quadriceps contusion."It was good to hear from Chil," Williams said, "but I wish the news was better. But he said it's not something major, so I'm sure he'll be fine." Whether or not the Hawks hear from Childress before the playoffs remains one of the more intriguing potential story lines of this season. While he remains under contract with Greek power Olympiacos, there will be rampant speculation with him in the states rehabbing that he's a candidate to rejoin the Hawks in time for a playoff run. After all, the Hawks retain his rights as a restricted free agent. And with other defectors for Europe already back in the NBA fold, Childress could make a similar jump were things to get more complicated than they are right now.
(Yahoo! Sports)
(Yahoo! Sports)
It doesn't depend on any of that crap.
If you LIVE and work in any foreign country anywhere on Earth, you will have to pay taxes on your earned income above $87,600. The trick is, you must be a legit resident of the country you are working in (although I'm not sure if this is the case anymore, wasn't for me) and you must have been in that country for 330 days out of 365 days (technically, you just must be outside of the U.S. during those 330 days, not actually in the country where you earn the income).
So say you make $200,000, well you would pay U.S. taxes on $112,400 which is the amount of income you would have earned above the $87,600 exclusion. Your first $87,600 foreign earned income is free from any U.S. taxation. You may or may not be liable on taxes of that $87,600 in the country where you work (this is where it starts to get complicated, and if you work for a company that sends your pay to your U.S. account and is not based in the country where you work..you won't have to pay that countries taxes and thus your first $87,600 really will be free).
[h=1]Josh Childress Smashes Opponent's Face With Vicious Flying Elbow[/h]
Former NBA swingman Josh Childress is still playing professional ball in Australia, and that's bad news for Australian dudes who think they can lay a hard pick on Childress and not catch an elbow to the face for their trouble.
This happened during last night's game between Childress' Sydney Kings and the Perth Wildcats. Childress gets laid out under the basket after running into a hard screen from Wildcats power forward Jesse Waggstaff, and he responds by trying to rearrange Waggstaff's whole facial area.
Even more shocking than Childress' murderous elbow is how calmly everyone reacted to the incident. Maybe this type of shit goes down all the time in the Australian basketball league.
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Holy shit look at that list
Vernon Maxwell....Jason Williams and Ruben Patterson
Vernon Maxwell....Jason Williams and Ruben Patterson
Bunch of pot heads on that list
J.R. Rider only has 1 arrest on that list....Missing about 5 more.
J.R. Rider only has 1 arrest on that list....Missing about 5 more.
