The source for the article published by Merdian Sport, the most reliable Serbian media outlet for basketball - https://meridiansport.rs/kosarka/partizan-odbio-cetiri-nba-napada-bonga/

The claim that the Pistons offered $1,000,000 was made by a Partizan insider account, who always has the most reliable information and routinely publishes information like players signings and other stuff club related before the club even officialy anounces it (the Partizan equivalent of Shams).

Partizan wasn’t ready to let Bonga go during the middle of the season, even though Bonga himself wanted to continue his career in the NBA.

After being named the EuroBasket final MVP last year, putting up 20 points, five rebounds and three assists in the game against Turkey, Bonga stayed with Partizan Belgrade this season.

He’s currently averaging 9.6 PPG, 5.7 RPG, 1.4 APG and 1 SPG in the Euroleague.

Fantastic-Balls | Mavericks

698 | 8 hours ago

Seriously, 1m is not a good offer.

Vectorized777

433 | 7 hours ago

According to the post title, it is $10,000,000 lol.

TheMagicMan56 | Serbia

196 | 7 hours ago

My bad on that one.

Noticed the typing mistake too late and can’t edit the headline.

ex-simp | Raptors

1 | 24 minutes ago

It’s not 10m. They would have taken 10m immediately, that’s huge money for the majority of Euroleague teams

GGTae | Spurs

34 | 8 hours ago

yeah why are they that cheap lol, they clearly didn’t want him hard enough

Overall-Palpitation6 | Grizzlies

66 | 8 hours ago

That’s the buyout, then they’ve got to pay him a contract amount too.

GGTae | Spurs

0 | 7 hours ago

if that 1m buyout was enough to make them cold feet, I don’t think the contract was an issue lol

Exzqairi | Pistons

49 | 5 hours ago

Huh? You realize you’re literally not allowed to offer more as a NBA team right?

I’m mostly wondering which idiots have been upvoting your comments

DjToastyTy | Pacers

17 | 5 hours ago

they dont know that kinda shit on here. most of them don’t even watch basketball

smalls_1804 | Knicks

5 | 4 hours ago

Yes because all hands should know intuitively the maximum amount teams are allowed to offer other teams in foreign leagues to buy of players’ contract

chesterfieldkingz

3 | 2 hours ago

I thought this was a rugby forum. I stopped watching basketball when the got rid of the peach basket

DyslexicAutronomer | Supersonics

13 | 5 hours ago

You can, the difference just comes out of the player’s pocket after that amount.

They’ll just try to make it back in other ways, like planting trees.

lazard96 | Spurs

34 | 6 hours ago

I think thats the max nba teams can offer, anything above that has to be covered by the player

wetwetson | NBA

16 | 5 hours ago

Google tells me the max is 850k. Which is an interesting contradiction to this headline.

Lain_C20H25N3O | BOS

5 | an hour ago

Could that amount be in euros? With current conversion, 850k euros is close to a million dolars (1009k to be precise)

BrotherSeamus | Thunder

1 | 5 hours ago

Is Dr. Evil running the Pistons?

maestroenglish | SAS

-1 | 5 hours ago

Read harder

PebblyJackGlasscock

252 | 7 hours ago

So, Bonga is coming back to the NBA as a potential high end role player in free agency. And 10m was the buyout offer.

Isaac gonna get paid the MLE or more.

TheMagicMan56 | Serbia

155 | 7 hours ago

$1,000,000 was the buyout offer, I added an extra 0 in the headline by mistake.

I corrected it in the text.

Ston3yy

-16 | 3 hours ago

my dude, your math is not mathing

TheTrueConnor800

11 | 3 hours ago

How is it not? He just threw an extra 0 in there and clarified it was only 1 mil.

20milla | Heat

-18 | 3 hours ago

This is still $10 million, but should be typed out as $10,000,000

Hakeem-the-Dream | Rockets

5 | 2 hours ago

Lmao

Bearasauruses

127 | 7 hours ago

2k legend Isaac Bonga

horse_renoir13 | Timberwolves

5 | 5 hours ago

The Bonga need food

whowasonCRACK2 | Lakers

2 | an hour ago

2k20 myteam god

bshall2105 | Pacers

1 | an hour ago

He was a giant Rajon Rondo for me

unwisest_sage | Magic

111 | 7 hours ago

Need him on the magic

thatonesleft | San Diego Clippers

74 | 5 hours ago

Do you just want to assemble the german national team?

supert0426

49 | 4 hours ago

The German national team punches way above their weight in a lot of international competition imo there’s worse things.

I’ll be honest, it’s criminal to me that Orlando never got Schroeder. He has proven chemistry with the Wagner guys, plays with the exact toughness that Orlando loved, and filled a desperate need of theirs at PG. Made no sense to me.

yeyiyeyiyo | Pacers

14 | 4 hours ago

Gms barely care about chemistry anymore except the best teams, they’re out there playing 2k like the rest of us

heavisidepiece | Mavericks

7 | 2 hours ago

Obviously you were referring to Moe and Franz Wagner, but for a second there I interpreted you saying Schroeder has deep roots with the Russian mercenary Wagner Group

Soxalam2 | Heat

1 | 4 minutes ago

Give it another year or two. He’ll be on another team by then. History tends to repeat itself.

sukari | Bulls

46 | 6 hours ago

I remember this dude coz he kicked his teammate Rui in the nuts and Rui was out for ages

mac_attack92 | Wizards

11 | 3 hours ago

I forgot about that 😭😭😭 from where we were to where we are, doesn’t feel real lmao

WakiLover | Lakers

4 | 2 hours ago

/r/nba said no team would help the Lakers, and then the Wizards immediately accepted the salary of players like Bonga to help with the AD trade. Now yall have AD, crazy.

mac_attack92 | Wizards

2 | an hour ago

That is a crazy full circle moment honestly, made he will get a chip with us like he did with yall

guacdoc24 | Lakers

30 | 6 hours ago

Lakers legend?!!

axnjxn00 | Magic

16 | 7 hours ago

Nowhere in the article is the amount of 1m mentioned

TheMagicMan56 | Serbia

29 | 7 hours ago

Yeah, that’s because it isn’t in the article.

I listed in the post about where the report about the $1,000,000 from the Pistons originates from.

Here’s the link - https://www.instagram.com/p/DUvGEUIiovE/?igsh=cWNmZ3R2eG84bnJz

It’s a really reliable source, like I wrote in the post he’s the Partizan version of Shams.

wetwetson | NBA

-21 | 5 hours ago

Must not be super reliable. The max an nba team can pay in a buyout is 850k

ffordedor | Celtics

9 | 5 hours ago

Doesn’t the player pay the club the rest

wetwetson | NBA

-6 | 5 hours ago

They can, yes. But the piston’s couldn’t have offered a million. They could only offer 850k.

ffordedor | Celtics

8 | 5 hours ago

They’re still offering the extra $150k no, it just comes out of the players contract as a signing bonus?

One_Consequence3861

11 | 6 hours ago

A long time ago I made a shot post asking if Isaac bongs was best player in the league. Nice to see his name come up

Bottrop-Per | Trail Blazers

9 | 9 hours ago

Would love him on the Blazers. We could use a versatile 3-and-D wing like him off the bench.

Artistic-Part3953

8 | 7 hours ago

Wasn’t he a PG in the NBA?

Bottrop-Per | Trail Blazers

6 | 4 hours ago

I don’t think so. He was drafted as a Point guard but the last time he really played that role he was when he played for Frankfurt as an 18 year old.

cheeseybacon11 | MIN

1 | 5 hours ago

Yes

Brabochokemightwork | Knicks

6 | 4 hours ago

I think most people will look at his euroleague stats and assume “$1 Million sounds like a good offer? 10 Million feels like overpaying for a guy that averages a triple single”

axolotlorange

1 | 2 hours ago

It’s Europe. The style of basketball is very different and doesn’t not lead to huge counting stats

UnbiasedExpert | CLE

3 | 7 hours ago

No Bonga for you!

Mushroom_69420 | East

3 | 5 hours ago

Wizard Legend Isaac Bonga

sambalbelacan | Raptors

2 | 6 hours ago

Raptors legend 😤😤😤

SeaMeasurement9 | Bucks

2 | 4 hours ago

I mean Andreas Obst gotta follow this summer as well

the_shins | Pistons

2 | 2 hours ago

I don’t see how he would even get minutes on our team. We’re kinda stacked at the wings tbh.

GoZards18

1 | 5 hours ago

Come back to the wiz!

ottespana | Thunder

0 | an hour ago

They offered 10 million????

[Meridian Sport Serbia] Euroleague club Partizan Belgrade rejected four offers from NBA teams to immediately buyout the contract of EuroBasket final MVP Isaac Bonga. According to another outlet, the best offer was from the Pistons, who offered $1,000,0000 for the German wing.