Mavericks guard J.J. Barea aspires to be a basketball coach when his playing career over, and this summer he’ll get a shot to coach a team even before he retires a player. As Tim MacMahon of ESPN details, Barea has been hired as the head coach of Indios de Mayaguez in the Puerto Rican league for the rest of the season, which runs about another month. Barea received clearance from Mark Cuban, Rick Carlisle, and the Mavs, and is excited about the opportunity.
“This is my hometown team, where I played when I was getting started,” Barea said. “I think it’s going to be a great experience for myself and see if I really like this and see what I learn and if it can help me out for the future.”
Here’s more from around the Southwest:
- Now that Dewayne Dedmon has opted out of his contract with the Spurs, what sort of offers may he be looking at as a free agent? According to Jabari Young of The San Antonio Express-News (Twitter link), he’s hearing from NBA GMs that Dedmon could land something in the range of three to four years at $8-10MM annually.
- In the wake of last week’s Chris Paul rumors and speculation, Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders takes a closer look at the Spurs‘ salary cap situation for this summer, explaining why it will be hard to create a big chunk of space, and identifying alternate targets.
- A report from French outlet L’Equipe suggests that the Mavericks are exploring the possibility of adding SIG Strasbourg head coach Vincent Collet to their Summer League coaching staff. As Emiliano Carchia of Sportando observes, such a union would make a lot of sense if Dallas drafts point guard Frank Ntilikina ninth overall in June’s draft — Ntilikina has played under Collet in France for the last two seasons.
- The Grizzlies announced today in a press release that director basketball operations Chris Makris will act as the GM for the team’s new D-League club, which will play in Southaven, Mississippi. Glynn Cyprien will coach the squad.
So I was close. I had Dedmon and Willie Reed in that $6-7 million range, potentially reaching $9 million. Should be interesting to see who adds them. Both were really good this year. Reed was actually part of 3 or 4 of the Heat’s best lineups.
I see willie reed with a Tarik black contract 2/12 mil while Dedmond gets a 4/45
LOL !!!
D league all stars dont get 4/45 contracts.
Willie Reed on the other hand is a pretty decent player. He runs the floor, can guard a big man, block shots… all the hustle things.
Reed might get a 6 mil contract maybe two years… team option for the second.
Have you been hiding under a rock ? There is a new CBA which means EVERYBODY is going to get overpaid…
I didn’t think the salary cap was going up this summer as much as it did last summer when a lot of guys got big contracts.
Well it doesn’t matter like I said I’m my previous post, EVERYBODY is getting overpaid.