Denvers Big Investment
Posted on July 3rd, 2006 by
Power forward Nene made two big commitments over the weekend.On Saturday, he got married in Rio de Janeiro. On Sunday, he agreed to a six-year, $60 million deal to stay with the Denver Nuggets.
His agent, Dan Fegan, interrupted Nene’s honeymoon in his native Brazil with the good news.
“Ecstatic couldn’t be too strong a word,” Fegan said Sunday night from Los Angeles.
Combined with the five-year, $80 million extension that Carmelo Anthony agreed to Saturday, Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke spent the first weekend of free agency committing some $140 million toward building what he hopes will be a championship contender in the very near future. #
Wow :O I can imagine signing Carmelo to a 80$ million dollar contract, he is after all the face of the organization, but Nene? The guy played three whole minutes this season before getting injured, they probably could’ve gotten him for half the price. No disrespect to the guy though, he is definitely a post presence when healthy, but seriously :S
