cbc.ca - 8/6/2008
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Noted NBA little man Earl Boykins is the latest to jump on a big deal to play overseas, signing a one-year, $3.5 million US deal Tuesday with Italian club Vitus Bologna.
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Earl Boykins heading to Italy to play
Dejuiced! Sports News with No Boundaries —
... Earl Boykins (note - picture is not actual size) has decided he’s had enough of the National Basketball Association. Boykins has signed a one-year deal with the Italian club Vitus Bologna, worth $3.5 million. ...
Forza Italia
Gheorghe: The Blog —
... Earl Boykins, all 5'5" (allegedly) of him, just signed a 1-year, $3.5m contract to play for Vitus Bologna in the Italian league. The deal makes the diminutive stud (man, if I had a nickel for every time one of my lady friends called me that) the highest-paid player in the Italian league. Setting aside the fact that Boykins' new team appears to be named for Vitas Gerulaitis' manparts, this is huge news in the world of the not-so-huge. ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Highest Paid Player in all of Italy:
Canis Hoopus —
The Euros may have Josh Childress, but when Earl Boykins is still somewhere near the top of the salary mountain, there's still a looooonnnnnnggg way to go.
From CBC Sports:
Noted NBA little man Earl Boykins is the latest to jump on a big deal to play overseas, signing a one-year, $3.5 million US deal Tuesday with Italian club Vitus Bologna.
Andy Bountogianis of the Cleveland-based Mark Termini Associates Inc. sports agency, confirmed the signing.
The five-foot-five Boykins, 32, will be the highest-paid player player ...
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Earl Boykins bolts to Europe, signs with Virtus Bologna
interbasket.net 8/6/2008 — According to ESPN , little 5-5 Earl Boykins, a backup guard and 10-year NBA veteran, just signed a one-year contract with Italian club Virtus Bologna worth $3.5 million. The contract makes Boykins the highest-paid basketball player in Italy. Wow.
Still Not Buying the LeBron-to-Euro Business
sportingnews.com 8/7/2008 — Earl Boykins, now with Italy . Kindly proceed with your life as originally planned.
Speaking of Euro-defection, I'm not backing down from my assertion that LeBron won't leave America . This despite Chris Broussard's report —from someone on ...
The Euro Menace Goes Small —
Five Tool Tool - The Sports Blog That Loves You Back
And the trickle picks up... Earl Boykins, a truly useful scoring bench guard provided you can handle over-dribbling and bad defense from a poor man's Iverson, goes for $3.5 million to Italy. Earl's 32 now and really fell off the radar in Charlotte last year, but he's a name that people are going to recognize, if only because Earl's really short for an NBA player. Nenad Krstic, an actually ...
Boykins Now Ninth NBA Player To Head To Euro-League —
Slam Dunk Central
“ ESPN.com ” reported Wednesday that free agent veteran guard Earl Boykins has become the ninth former NBA player to sign overseas since July 1. The much traveled point guard has signed a one year deal to play for Virtus Bologna, reportedly for over $3.5 million. The report states it would make Boykins the highest paid player in Italy.
Boykins has spent ten years playing in ...
Eastern Michigan’s Finest Heads to Italy —
The Big Lead
Give us your tired, your poor … THE EUROS GOT EARL BOYKINS ? David Stern, you worried yet? Seems as if Josh Childress leaving for Greece last month was a black swan . (All those Toronto Raptors probably bolted because they wanted to get the heck out of Canada.)
But Earl Boykins is going to make $3.5 million for one year in Italy … and he’s going to be the highest paid ...
Europe Steals Earl Boykins —
the Blowtorch
I'm fine with you Europeans stealing Josh Childress. His hair and weird gums would make you think there's something funny about him but there's not. He's a good player. Not great. He doesn't do anything stupid and he's probably boring. Taking Earl Boykins is another matter. How dare you, Italy?! What little guy can we make fun of now? That's just unkind to be stealing our hilarious looking ...
PG Boykins signs with Italian team (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NBA News
Unrestricted free agent Earl Boykins signed a one-year, $3.5 million deal Tuesday to play with Virtus Bologna of the Italian league, the latest NBA player to sign a deal with an overseas club. Andy Bountogianis of the Cleveland-based Mark Termini ...
