—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1988
Big bucks for Bird
New deal to pay
Celtics' All-Star
$4.2M per year
By HOWARD ULMAN
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON The rumblings began
in last season's playoffs when Larry
Bird noted that lesser players were
making more money than him.
They continued in this season's
training camp when he expressed
impatience with the pace of negotia
tions toward a contract extension.
They ended Monday when he and
the Boston Celtics announced an
agreement on a two-year extension
running through the 1991-1992 NBA
season that will pay the perennial All-
Star a reported $4.2 million a year.
"I'm real happy with everything,"
said Bird, who treated several Cel
tics' rookies to dinner Monday night.
"The Celtics were very fair with me
and now I'm going to work hard to
help bring another championship to
Boston."
He has four years left to do that
the two remaining on a five-year deal
and the two added Monday. Bob
Woolf, his attorney, said Bird, now 31,
will retire after that.
"Salaries have escalated so much,
and the only way I was going to get
more money was to give them more
years," Bird said.
"After David Robinson got his, and
Michael (Jordan) got his and they
redid Magic (Johnson), I wondered if
anyone would ever say anything to
me. It made me think, 'What's my
place in all this?' When the Celtics
said in the paper last spring they
were willing to sit down and talk to
me, I said 'Great."'
Bird's immediate concerns are a
trip to Spain for two exhibition games
and the last two years on his original
contract, which pays him $l.B million
per year.
Woolf said the 6-9 forward, an All-
Star in each of his nine NBA seasons,
will honor those terms.
The Celtics were scheduled to leave
today for Madrid, where they will
play against European squads in the
McDonald's Open that starts Friday.
"I believed what I said all along,"
said teammate Dennis Johnson. "I
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Boston star Larry Bird signed a contract extension Monday that will reportedly
pay him $8.4 million for the 1990-91 seasons.
thought they were going to do some- extension is "well in excess of $4
thing for Larry sooner or later. Larry million (per year) for the final two
is the one who is probably most years of his contract."
relieved." There were indications that the full
The $l.B million Bird will receive in four-year package is worth more than
each of the next two seasons is less $l2 million.
than what less accomplished players Chicago Bulls Michael Jordan re
receive, a point he raised publicly cently signed an eight-year contract
during the playoffs. Woolf said the that would pay him $2.7 million in
new deal would make Bird one of the each of the first four years and $3.25
five highest paid players in the million in each of the last four years.
league. Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles
According to reliable estimates, Lakers and Isiah Thomas of Detroit
Bird will receive $8.4 million for the have deals worth a reported $2 mil
-1990 and 1991 seasons. Woolf said the lion per year.
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