Rockets GM Daryl Morey: Chandler Parsons’ contract ‘most untradable’ I’ve seen’
By Mike Dyce
The Dallas Mavericks landed their man, Houston Rockets’ Chandler Parsons. The Houston Rockets declined to match Chandler Parsons offer from the Mavericks, and it might have been thanks to some crafty contract construction.
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The contract does include a clause that states that he can’t be traded till January 15 of 2015. After next season, his approval would be needed for any trade and Parsons can opt out of his deal. Rockets general manager Daryl Morey labeled the contract “untradeable” in a recent interview.
“The contract (Parsons) got…the Mavericks are a smart organization; they obviously wanted to get him…that structure of that (contract) is literally one of the most untradeable structures I’ve ever seen,” Morey told KBME-AM 790 in Houston.
The good news for the Mavericks is that they have no plans to trade Parsons.
“We’re not looking to move (Chandler Parsons). We hope he’s here for a long, long time,” Mavs president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson said Monday on KESN-FM 103.3, via the Dallas Morning News. “In terms of the trade-ability, we’ve had some pretty interesting contracts in past and were able to get off of them. So I don’t think there’s such a thing as an untradable contract. But that’s clearly not the spirit of which we’re doing this.”