Last week, Mirza Teletovic finally got the salary he'd originally been promised in the NBA when the Phoenix Suns offered him $5.5 million, if only for one year.
Teletovic was originally supposed to get the full mid-level exception when he joined the NBA in 2012 but the Nets were not allowed to sign him to that deal because of CBA limitations. He settled for the tax payer mid-level, a good 40% less than the MLE.
Now committed to Phoenix, Teletovic tries to fulfill his NBA potential as a stretch four who can pour in threes and pull the other team's big out of the paint for drives to the hoop by the Suns guards.