Imagine wasting a 1st round pick on someone that never even came over to play 1 game damn
NeatTry7674
Breaking news: Fran Vazquez has signed a 4 year deal with the Miami Heat
KneelBeforeCube
They should have done a sign and trade with the Kings and the Spurs.
rttrumbl
Any reason why they held on to this for so long? Just the off chance he’d suddenly become good?
JoJonesy
oh i was just talking about this dude. only lottery pick to never play a game in the NBA since the merger, other than Len Bias
ahr3410
Fran Vazquez and Yaroslav Korolev legendary back-to-back lottery picks
ReggiCur
Real OGs remember that pick.
BrandonXavierIngram
imagine if they drafted Granger instead, damn
Confident_Pen_919
according to wikipedia this guy retired from basketball in 2020
CaliforniaHurricane_
Why didn’t Vazquez ever play for the Magic ?
Lonely-Clock6384
So why even bother renouncing him?
GraveOfTheFireflies
You mean he isn’t coming any more?
MathewMurdock2
Is he the highest drafted living player (that was still alive RIP Len Bias) to never play a single NBA game?
e_double
You’d think he was drafted by the Denver Nuggets with how he did not want to sign with them.
Legendacb
He has been retired for a few years already
Organic_Impact2744
I wish to announce I have acquired the draft rights of 2005 1st-round pick Fran Vazquez.
kingcong95
For those who are curious, Vazquez counted as a cap hold on Orlando’s books for as long as they held his rights. That amount is the rookie scale of the 11th overall pick. These cap holds remain until the player is signed or the team elects to defer to another year, then it comes back the following offseason.
When you calculate how much cap space you have, cap holds count as team salary as well. This number is usually irrelevant for teams over the cap so there’s no point in renouncing cap holds, but Orlando used cap space to add KCP and renegotiate Isaac. In this case they needed every dollar they can, and renounced every cap hold they possibly could afford to.
9jajajaj9
Is there a reason they had to do this now? Why not just keep it around forever as a meme
imo9
This is the funniest NBA story I’ve never known about. This puts in to new perspective the last decade’s Eurosceptics. This is loony toons levels of unprofessionalism.
GillbergsAdvocate
This is up there with that baseball player that’s been under contract for like 15 years despite being retired for years. Y’all know the one
Edit: it’s actually more like 20 years he’s been getting paid while retired. Guy is my hero.
Flashy-Job6814
2005…19 years ago
HoraceGrand
He averaged under 10ppg and under 20 mins per game
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Well fuck my life
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Imagine wasting a 1st round pick on someone that never even came over to play 1 game damn
Breaking news: Fran Vazquez has signed a 4 year deal with the Miami Heat
They should have done a sign and trade with the Kings and the Spurs.
Any reason why they held on to this for so long? Just the off chance he’d suddenly become good?
oh i was just talking about this dude. only lottery pick to never play a game in the NBA since the merger, other than Len Bias
Fran Vazquez and Yaroslav Korolev legendary back-to-back lottery picks
Real OGs remember that pick.
imagine if they drafted Granger instead, damn
according to wikipedia this guy retired from basketball in 2020
Why didn’t Vazquez ever play for the Magic ?
So why even bother renouncing him?
You mean he isn’t coming any more?
Is he the highest drafted living player (that was still alive RIP Len Bias) to never play a single NBA game?
You’d think he was drafted by the Denver Nuggets with how he did not want to sign with them.
He has been retired for a few years already
I wish to announce I have acquired the draft rights of 2005 1st-round pick Fran Vazquez.
For those who are curious, Vazquez counted as a cap hold on Orlando’s books for as long as they held his rights. That amount is the rookie scale of the 11th overall pick. These cap holds remain until the player is signed or the team elects to defer to another year, then it comes back the following offseason.
When you calculate how much cap space you have, cap holds count as team salary as well. This number is usually irrelevant for teams over the cap so there’s no point in renouncing cap holds, but Orlando used cap space to add KCP and renegotiate Isaac. In this case they needed every dollar they can, and renounced every cap hold they possibly could afford to.
Is there a reason they had to do this now? Why not just keep it around forever as a meme
This is the funniest NBA story I’ve never known about.
This puts in to new perspective the last decade’s Eurosceptics.
This is loony toons levels of unprofessionalism.
This is up there with that baseball player that’s been under contract for like 15 years despite being retired for years. Y’all know the one
Edit: it’s actually more like 20 years he’s been getting paid while retired. Guy is my hero.
2005…19 years ago
He averaged under 10ppg and under 20 mins per game
https://www.basketball-reference.com/international/players/fran-vazquez-1.html
I’m OOTL, did this man really just not want to play for the magic so badly that he gave up any chance at an NBA career or is there more to the story?
What’s the back story exactly??
Today is a sad day…
I don’t know what the Magics are talking about.. Fran Vazquez has been waiting at the airport for someone to pick him up for close to 20 years!
Wild to draft a guy in the lottery and have him just shrug his shoulders and be like “Yeah, I’m not coming”.
In theory, he would have been a great fit next to a young Dwight.
Risky move. That 41 yr old could be the missing piece