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He admitted, with a smile, that it "hurt" to see some players receive arguably undeserving deals. Oden said he probably made around $24 million in his career. "The year I retired was the year Timofey Mozgov – no disrespect – got that $50 million. I wanted to kill everybody in the f---ing world," Oden said. "I hated life. I was depressed. If they threw him $50 mil? I was like all I need to do is be on the team and that's $20 million easy. It hurts my heart talking about it."
Jorge Sierra: New Jazz forward Juancho Hernangomez has been traded five times in the last couple of years. No international player has been traded more times than him in NBA history. He's tied with Ricky Rubio, Timofey Mozgov, Ersan Ilyasova and Nik Stauskas right now.
Timofey Mozgov signs for Russian second division team
An unexpected turn in Timofey Mozgov's career - the former NBA champion moves to the second basketball league of Russia, per Sports.ru. The 35-year-old, who spent the 2010-18 period in the NBA, has signed a contract with Runa Basket Moscow. The squad leads the second Russian division with 11 wins and 1 loss.
Former NBA Champion Timofey Mozgov is reportedly expected to play for Russia NT in Split OQT later this month, as reported by Eurohoops. Mozgov recently returned after a long absence to injuries, playing 6 games for Khimki in VTB League this season.
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Pavel Astakhov, sports director of Khimki Moscow, said that Timofey Mozgov will likely remain with the Russian team next season. The former NBA champion has not played this season because he was recovering from an injury but he was ready to go when the season was suspended.
Mozgov's salary removed from Magic's payroll
Shams Charania: The NBA has removed center Timofey Mozgov’s $16.7M salary from Orlando’s salary books via career-ending injury/illness application, sources tell @The Athletic @Stadium. The Magic stretched-and-waived Mozgov in July.
Bobby Marks: Can confirm (@Shams Charania first) that Orlando has received cap and tax relief on the $16.7M ($5.6M in three seasons) Timofey Mozgov contract. The Magic now go from $2.3M to $7.8M below the tax and have a $10.7M buffer below the hard cap.
Bobby Marks: Mozgov joins a list of Omer Asik, Mirza Teletovic, Chris Bosh, Nikola Pekovic and Aaron Gray that have seen their salary removed in the past three-years as a result of a long-term injury waiver.
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Khimki Moscow Region has signed veteran center Timofey Mozgov to a one-year deal, for what will be his third stint with the club.
Mozgov also talked about Lebron James’ impact that went beyond his on-court contribution. “If Lebron only played like he played and didn’t do his locker room speeches, we wouldn’t have won. As good as he was on the court, if he didn’t motivate the team as he did, we wouldn’t have won. He motivated us and made sure that we had the right attitude.” “When we were trailing 3-1 not one player on the team thought we’d lose, thanks to him.”
The Russian national men’s basketball team arrived at the training camp in Novogorsk on July 22, outside Moscow, for the 2019 FIBA World Cup and Mozgov was on the national squad’s roster. "I had no contacts with the national team’s administration or the Russian Basketball Federation in the recent days and, therefore, was unable to announce my inability to join the national squad for the upcoming 2019 FIBA World Cup," Mozgov told TASS.
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