Raptors Ink Amir Johnson To A Five-year, $34 Million Deal

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Toronto Raptors have reached agreement to sign centre Amir Johnson to a five-year, $34 million deal, agent Kevin Bradbury tells Y! Sports. 7 minutes ago via TweetDeck

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Toronto Secures $34M Deal With Amir Johnson
Jul 01, 2010 8:47 PM EST

Toronto Raptors have reached agreement to sign center Amir Johnson to a five-year, $34 million deal, agent Kevin Bradbury tells Y! Sports.

Via Marc J. Spears/Yahoo! (via Twitter)

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This according to Bosh's puppet Hadi

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Amir Johnson has come to terms with the Raptors on a 5 year 34 million dollar deal. #YoungGunz

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That was the big news he was talking about earlier today.

That is about in line with what I thought he would get at the top side except he got an extra year more than what I expected.

5 Years, 34 Millions, of course he is no center^^

first step to a successful offseason, congrats bc

I like the idea of having our second most productive player last year around for another 5 years, but I get the feeling BC bid against himself again and they could have gotten him for cheaper. If he gets the minutes, Amir will easily show he's worth it.

It is $2 million more than Drew Gooden got. So Liston's thread was right there.:)

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I'm happy for Amir, and the money is not hugely above what I figured he'd get - I was hoping around $6 mil a year, he got just under $7M.

A- for the signing, just 'cause I figure he could have been had for a few million less.

I'd be shocked if BC was the only GM interested though.

Yeah well considering how we all see how much potential Amir still has, other GMs for sure saw that in him as well. Definitely other teams were interested in him so Im stoked on the deal, not so much the money but lets hope he only gets better and lives up to it

Does anyone have info on the per year breakdown?

According to Bruce Arthur from the National Post, Phoenix and Golden State were interested in Amir too.

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Looks like Phoenix and Golden State were both interested in Amir Johnson, per @gswscribe and @paulcoro. 5/34M-interested? We'll never know.

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According to Bruce Arthur from the National Post, Phoenix and Golden State were interested in Amir too.



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This is interesting because a month or so ago I had an email exchange with someone in the Pistons organization that I still maintain contact with. He said to me "Amir would sure look good with Nash"

Not to be unless Nash gets traded to Toronto:)

I think there were 4 teams interested in Amir, probably why the deal ended being more than it should be but ah well its good to keep the young gunz here.

http://www.thescore.com/home/article...6-a-good-start

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Grading The Deal: Raptors Keep Amir Johnson

By: Christopher Reina
RealGM.com Writer

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Happy for Amir. If BC had competition for AJ then fine. He is young, plays hard, wants to be here and improving his offense. But somehow I always get the feeling BC overpays. The core gets larger and thats a good thing. And everyone seems to be paying top dollar at this time (J.Johnson, Gay, Salmons).

Suuweeet! :D

The Young Gunz will remain intact! I'm headed to Centre Sports to get my jersey now. :D

A few mil more prolly than what he's worth, but def a good move by BC locking him up fast. He's only going to get better with time, more mins so it's all good.

Amir Johnson was one the most productive players on the raptors last year, showing great hustle and desire despite his limited/developing skills.

However, this is a TERRIBLE deal for the raptors. The skills Johnson provides are the most replacable ones in the league and we grossly overpaid. BC keeps screwing around with our cap by overpaying players and then people wonder why we cant compete for free agents or properly rebuild.

Especially in the stage we are in (rebuilding if bosh goes), this deal is everything BC should not do.

Wow talking about overpaying for an unproven talent.

I like Amir but man this was an expensive contract.

I hope they have somewhere to ship Reggie Evans to lessen the blow (Turkoglu would help alot more but nobody wants him heh).

Amir went where the money went, nothing to do with preference for the Raptors.

good signing just dont like the figures at all........ a shade under 7 mill for amir? come on im sure BC could of gotten ALOT cheaper i would think 5.5 mill MAX

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Amir Johnson was one the most productive players on the raptors last year, showing great hustle and desire despite his limited/developing skills.

However, this is a TERRIBLE deal for the raptors. The skills Johnson provides are the most replacable ones in the league and we grossly overpaid. BC keeps screwing around with our cap by overpaying players and then people wonder why we cant compete for free agents or properly rebuild.

Especially in the stage we are in (rebuilding if bosh goes), this deal is everything BC should not do.

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Rebounding and hustle in a player that is also extremely efficient on the offensive end are NOT easily replaceable skills. They are actually difficult skills to find and contribute to wins more than someone who is just a scorer. His lack of scoring is probably his biggest weakness, but there are plenty of players on the team that can score. Of all the deals Colangelo has signed, this one and Jacks are easily the best.

Amir is the type of player that the Raptors need to get more of. Players who hustle, play defense and have the intangibles that help a team win.

I do find it incredibly ironic, however, that on the same day Drew Gooden is signed by Milwaukee, Amir signs with the Raptors. If Milwaukee doesn't regret letting Amir go, they should. I'd much rather have Amir on my team than Gooden, who was signed for only slightly less money.