Following four somewhat uneventful seasons in Charlotte, Bismack Biyombo signed a 2-year, $6 million deal with Toronto last summer, with a player option for this coming summer.
In the playoffs, the perfect storm hit for Biyombo. The team advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, paired up against LeBron James, so eyeballs would be on the TV sets. Then Jonas Valanciunas got hurt, thrusting Biyombo into the spotlight. And he didn’t disappoint this series. His rim protection and rebounding may earn him a nice pay day in a few months. Quite the gamble, though.
“For someone like (Biyombo), I think when you look at a guy like Tyson Chandler and what he got from Phoenix last summer (four years, $52 million), that’s where you start for a contract,” one Eastern Conference GM told Sporting News. “But you factor in the cap spike and it’s probably going to be high, I’d say, $16-17 million. It’ll be a heck of a $17 million-per-year gamble.
H/T: Sporting News
