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Nets pick up contract options on Lee, Yi and Lopez
Posted Oct 30 2009 3:12AM
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- The New Jersey Nets have exercised contract options on starters Courtney Lee, Brook Lopez and Yi Jianlian for the 2010-11 seasons.
The Nets on Thursday also declined to exercise the fourth-year contract option on forward Sean Williams, the team's first-round draft pick in 2007 and the 17th pick overall.
The options that the Nets picked up on Lopez and Lee were for their third seasons. Lopez will earn $2.41 million, while Lee will get $1.34 million. The option on Yi is for his fourth season and it will earn him just over $4 million.
Williams would have earned $2.5 million had the team pick up his fourth-year option.
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