04/09/2021 12:48
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 04/09/2021 12:48 PM
Gabriel Deck (26) will join Oklahoma City Thunder in the next few days and will become the second Argentine to play in the current NBA season behind Facundo Campazzo (30), a Denver Nuggets man and former teammate of Santiago in Real Madrid.
Deck will also be the fourteenth Argentine player to reach the basketball mecca, where the retired Emanuel Ginobili (43) became the best of the ambassadors after his four titles with San Antonio Spurs.
Now, within hours of his landing in Oklahoma City,
the figures of the millionaire contract
to be signed by the member of the stable cast of the Argentine basketball team have
already
begun to circulate
.
Deck, who has been showing a high level, had arrived at Real Madrid in June 2018 for three seasons.
He had one of the lowest contracts on the team, since it did not exceed 500,000 euros per year.
The reality will change for
Tortu
when he disembarks in the United States, a destination that he already had between his eyebrows when he had ruled out the possibility of renewing his contract with the Madrid club in recent months.
According to the newspaper
As
of Spain, Deck will play the rest of the NBA season -the playoffs start next May, where his team, which is 13th in the Western Conference will not be in the game- in exchange for
a contract for 4 million dollars
not counting the 750 thousand that the franchise will put to execute the termination clause of the Argentine.
Once the season is over, always according to what the Madrid sports newspaper revealed,
Deck will have the option of signing a three-season contract in exchange for about $ 11 million
.
This is a great opportunity for Deck who will come to the Thunder as a booster for a team under construction that for now does not have great sporting aspirations.
That will give him room to add minutes and acclimatize to the physical game of the NBA and show that he has plenty of game and character to fight with the best in the world.
Something he already did in the FIBA arena, where he became an important cog in Real Madrid.
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