I believe WOJO over Calipari.
Here is what WOJO is saying Calipari’s asking price is to leave Kentucky.
For Calipari to consider the Nets – and, yes, the Sacramento Kings, too – league sources tell Yahoo Sports that the teams have been informed of his asking price: 10 years, $120 million.
When Calipari spoke with minority ownership in Sacramento last spring, he told them that it would take an offer of $11 million-plus a year to get his attention, league sources said. Calipari turned down a 10-year, $80 million-plus offer with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014, because he wouldn’t leave Kentucky with only an incremental raise on what is now an $8 million to $9 million annual package on campus.
Cleveland’s offer has become a baseline for Calipari’s contractual demands: He wants the 10 years and now the $12 million a year that Phil Jackson makes to run the Knicks.
According to WOJO he thinks he can get DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall to sign with whatever NBA team he decided to coach when they become free agents (both went to Kentucky). I don’t think that is a good reason to give a coach $120 million, but I don’t own an NBA team.
Calipari went for the straight denial on Twitter.
You may have heard me say this before: I absolutely have the best coaching job in sports and I plan on being at Kentucky for a long time.
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) January 11, 2016
I am not negotiating with ANYBODY. My total focus is on this team and winning the next game.
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) January 11, 2016
Coaches lie, so take this with a grain of salt and don’t be shocked if Calipari is in the NBA sooner than later.