Hoopinion: Pape Sy Contract Details

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Michael Cunningham reports that the Atlanta Hawks signed Pape Sy to a three-year deal, with the first year fully guaranteed for the rookie minimum of $473,604. That brings the team's 2010-11 salary commitments to $68,883,805, leaving the Hawks $1,423,195 below the luxury tax threshold with one open roster spot remaining. The buyout agreed with STB Le Havre was approximately $125,000.

Cunningham also quotes Rick Sund on the subject of Sy spending time in the D-League. Sund:

"It gives us another young guy who we can develop and maybe send to the D-League and get some experience. He could help us down the line."

Though any expectations should be seriously tempered and flexible due to Sy's limited production in limited minutes in both France* and summer league, keep the words Sund used, especially "could" and "down the line," foremost in the mind when forming them.

*To be fair, Sy played almost as many minutes as Etan Thomas and Jason Collins combined last season, albeit in the France.

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