Comments on: Al Horford agrees to five-year, $60 million deal to stay with Hawks http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/01/al-horford-signs-five-year-60-million-deal-to-stay-with-hawks/ Basketball - NBC Sports Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:48:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Al Horford’s in for Atlanta, but who’s out? | ProBasketballTalk http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/01/al-horford-signs-five-year-60-million-deal-to-stay-with-hawks/comment-page-1/#comment-29649 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:08:10 +0000 http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=8502#comment-29649 [...] Al Horford and the Hawks agreed on a contract extension that will keep Horford in Atlanta for five more seasons, but the Hawks’ long-term concerns are far from solved. Losing Horford should never have been an option, but the money he’ll be owed over the next five seasons is thrown on top of substantial financial commitments the team has already made to Joe Johnson, Josh Smith, and Marvin Williams. Those three players alone will cost Atlanta $38.6 million next season, and that’s not including Horford’s new salary, nor the guaranteed salaries of Mike Bibby, Zaza Pachulia, Jeff Teague, Jordan Crawford, and a potential Jamal Crawford replacement. [...]

]]> By: zblott http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/01/al-horford-signs-five-year-60-million-deal-to-stay-with-hawks/comment-page-1/#comment-29632 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:20:11 +0000 http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=8502#comment-29632 Infinitely better deal than was given to JJ. This and the Noah deal were both great value for their franchises.

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