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Toronto Raptors make $20 million play for Linas Kleiza

July 8, 2010

Interesting – and yet, it should have been expected in hindsight – comes the news out of Toronto that the Raptors have extended a four-year $20 million offer sheet to Olympiacos’ Linas Kleiza.

Since Kleiza has reportedly also signed the offer sheet, his former NBA team the Denver Nuggets have a week to match the offer.

With Chris Bosh going to the Miami Heat and Hedo Turkoglu also wanting out, not only do the Raptors have money to play with and open spots at forward, but hey, Kleiza’s a European and Toronto loves them European ballers!

In his first-ever professional season in Europe, Kleiza was named to the All-Euroleague first team and All-Greek League (EΣAKE) first team, finishing third in MVP balloting there.

And now to the YouTube…



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Comments: 3
  1. Michael
    15 years ago

    I assure you that Linas Kleiza was not the MVP of the Greek League. Your information is wrong there. Linas Kleiza was NOT the MVP of the Greek League.

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  2. Michael
    15 years ago

    The voting results of the Greek League MVP award:

    1. Michael Batiste (Panathinaikos)
    2. Kostas Kaimakoglou (Maroussi)
    3. Linas Kleiza (Olympiacos)
    4. Nikola Pekovic (Panathinaikos)
    5. Josh Childress (Olympiacos)
    6. Drew Nicholas (Panathinaikos)
    7. Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos)
    8. Vassilis Spanoulis (Panathinaikos)

    http://www.talkbasket.net/news/batiste-2009-10-greek-a1-mvp-3143.html

    If you want an official confirmation you can look at this (it’s in Greek though).

    http://esake.gr/article/14106

    Τα αποτελέσματα της ψηφοφορίας:

    Μάικ Μπατίστ (Παναθηναϊκός) 57

    Κώστας Καϊμακόγλου (Μαρούσι) 34

    Λίνας Κλέιζα (Ολυμπιακός) 30

    Νίκολα Πέκοβιτς (Παναθηναϊκός) 21

    Τζος Τσίλντρες (Ολυμπιακός) 20

    Ντρου Νίκολας (Παναθηναϊκός) 16

    Δημήτρης Διαμαντίδης (Παναθηναϊκός) 13

    Βασίλης Σπανούλης (Παναθηναϊκός) 11

    Λανς Χάρις (Κολοσσός Ρ.) 7

    Μπίλι Κις (Μαρούσι) 7

    Ρόντρικ Μπλάκνεϊ (Πανελλήνιος) 4

    Μίλος Τεόντοσιτς (Ολυμπιακός) 4

    Τζέιμι Άρνολντ (Περιστέρι) 3

    Ντέβιν Σμιθ (Πανελλήνιος) 3

    Ίαν Βουγιούκας (Πανελλήνιος) 2

    Γιάννης Μπουρούσης (Ολυμπιακός) 1

    Μάικ Μπατίστ = Mike Batiste

    Λίνας Κλέιζα = Linas Kleiza

    As you can see, Kleiza was third with 30 votes, behind Kostas Kaimakoglou (34) votes and Mike Batiste (57 votes).

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  3. Os Davis
    15 years ago

    @ Michael: Thanks for the info. (oops.) Correction made.

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