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01/25/2007 - Tucson, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chase Budinger scored a game-high 21 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, as 17th-ranked Arizona trounced Arizona State, 71-47, at McKale Center.
Budinger was a perfect 7-of-7 from the charity stripe and added a pair of assists for the Wildcats (14-5, 5-4 Pac-10), who snapped a three-game losing streak, the program's longest since 1983-84. Jawann McClellan had 14 points for Arizona, Jordan Hill chipped in 12 points to go along with nine rebounds, and Ivan Radenovic donated 11 points in the effort.
Arizona's Marcus Williams did not play in the contest, as the sophomore was suspended for the game due to unspecified violations of team policy. The 6- foot-7 forward is averaging 18.1 points, 7.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 18 starts this season for the Wildcats.
Christian Polk was one of just two players in double figures for the Sun Devils (6-14, 0-9) who have suffered ten straight setbacks and have yet to post a win in conference action. Polk finished the night with 11 points, while Serge Angounou ended with 10 points and six boards in a losing cause.
Arizona opened the game on an 8-0 run. Budinger started things off with a pair of free throws, while Hill capped the surge with dunk at 17:15.
The game went back-and-forth over the next 11 minutes, until the Sun Devils grabbed their first lead of the night, 18-17, on Derek Glasser's trey at 7:20.
The Wildcats quickly regained the lead, as McClellan netted his own three- point shot. Arizona then used a 17-8 spurt to close out the first half, cruising into the break with a 37-26 edge.
The Sun Devils never pulled closer than 10 in the second half, as Angounou's three-point play made it 41-31 with 17:12 remaining.
Game Notes
The last time Arizona lost four consecutive games was January 5-14, 1984...Arizona leads the all-time series, 137-73.
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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.
And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.
Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.
So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.
Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)
The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.
As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.
The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.
In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.
Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.
And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.
So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.
There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.
So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.
And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.
There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)
Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.
Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.
Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.
So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.
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