Anderson Varejao: The Saga Continues
November 27, 2007 by admin
Filed under Cleveland Cavaliers
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
As most of you probably know, Anderson Varejao is an unsigned restricted free agent of the Cleveland Cavaliers. He played a vital role last year in the Cavaliers reaching the NBA Finals as the team’s rebounding, defending and flopping master.
Varejao went into the summer wanting to get paid big bucks (reports indicate he wanted between $8-10M per year) but the Cavs wanted to retain him for a more reasonable amount. Since he was a restricted free agent, no other team was able to outright sign him without the Cavs potentially matching the deal.
A month into the season and there has been limited progress. However, in a recent report, Varejao has now stated that he doesn’t want to return to the Cavaliers. Instead, he says, he wants to be traded to another team.
Since there is virtually no money out there for Varejao to make, he’d have to accept a small deal if he were to be traded. Don’t count on that happening unless he goes to a team with the unwritten agreement of a new deal at the end of the season.
What do I think will happen? I think that eventually Varejao will come off of his demands and will settle with Cleveland for a shorter contract than he originally wanted. The Cavaliers are doing decently without him so Varejao’s leverage is slim. And even if he were to holdout all season, he’d still be property of the Cavs. Basically, Varejao is between and rock and a hard place and his only real out is to re-sign in Cleveland.
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