Former Philadelphia 76ers power forward Darius Songaila has signed a one-year deal worth $1.5 million plus bonuses with the Turkish team, Galatasaray, his agent said on Friday.

 

The contract does not have an escape clause should the NBA lockout end in time for all or part of the 2011-12 NBA season, which means Songaila is committed to spending the entire season in Turkey.

Nets point guard Deron Williams agreed to terms with another Turkish League team, Besiktas, earlier this week, but he does have the option to return to the U.S. if the NBA lockout ends and games are played next season.

"Darius didn't play a lot of minutes last season in Philadelphia and with the uncertainty surrounding the lockout, he wanted to make sure he'd play next season," said his agent, Mark Bartlestein.

Songaila, 33, has played for five NBA teams over 10 seasons, but he could not crack the 76ers' young, strong front-line rotation and made only 10 appearances last season. He plans to play for the Lithuanian national team this summer.

Galatasaray Cafe Crown lost 4-2 in a best-of-seven series to Fenerbahce Ulker in the Turkish League finals last month.

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越來越多人加入歐洲球隊...............

大牌的除了D-Will以外還有誰嗎???

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動輒得咎
江湖上行走總是要小心一點

在七六人跟本上不了場

也有點年紀了，在NBA應該也沒什麼機會了

趁封館到海外撈一筆吧

球員去歐洲,大概只能拿到NBA的三分之一

頂薪的拿500萬(中產),500萬的(Songaila,去年480萬)拿一兩百萬(底薪),底薪級的大概只能拿到50萬,再扣掉50%的稅(外籍人士所得扣50%,這點各國都差不多),實在稱不上"撈一筆"

目前去歐洲的,大部份都是歐洲出身的球員,原本去美國打NBA,就是存著要撈一筆的心,現在只是回歸事少離家近,真正失業中的美國球員,比上述的還慘,到歐洲會考慮更多

D.Williams先跑了,姚明這時宣佈退休,更有雪上加霜的感覺

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Sasha Vujacic跟Mikael Pietrus也都已經收到來自土耳其的offer

土耳其近年外資蜂擁而擁至,在歐盟區因為爛債焦頭爛額時,已被視為全歐唯一的新金磚區(N-11),除了有爆發的經濟發展實力,體育上足球籃球也都已經到歐洲強權的水平

歐洲籃球兩大強權:希臘跟西班牙,則是在經濟崩壞-衰退最嚴重的兩國--希臘已接近破產,西班牙失業率約22%,這一波搶NBA球員,不能指望這兩國

以為封館還能去歐洲掏金的球員,恐怕打錯算盤了,土耳其跟俄羅斯還比較有機會去,但畢竟名額有限(俄羅斯的中央陸軍隊如不收NBA球員,就差很多了),要去得趁早決定

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