Hornets – Pargo goes Russian
August 16, 2008 by James Edwards
Filed under NBA Basketball
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The Russian Olympic Coach says – “Jannero Pargo who?”
It has happened again. An NBA player has forsaken the world’s greatest league to take the money overseas.
Jannero Pargo of the New Orleans Hornets signed a 1 year 4 million dollar deal, thus effectively doubling his salary with the Hornets.
This is not a European Exodus; it is a worldwide exodus from the NBA as Pargo signs with Dynamo Moscow.
Dynamo also signed Bostjan Nachbar, who averaged 9.8 points for the New Jersey Nets last season.
The 6-foot-1, 175-pound Pargo is a six-year NBA veteran out of Arkansas. He averaged 8.1 points and 18 minutes a game as a reserve for the Hornets last season, and was the team’s fourth-leading scorer in the playoffs with 10.2 points per game.
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Seriously – I can’t understand this. These guys are willing to give up their lives in the U.S. to play basketball oversees. How can Pargo think that living in Russia can be a good situation? It just doesn’t make any sense to me.
It has to be money. nothing but money.