Free agent - Signed with Pesaro
- Birthdate: 08/29/1982
- Drafted (NBA): 25th pick, 2003
- Pre-draft team: Skipper Bologna (Italy)
- Country: Argentina/Italy
- Hand: Right
- Agent: Unknown
| Date | League | Transaction |
|---|---|---|
| 27th June, 2002 | Spain | Signed a five year contract with Real Madrid. Included team option for 2005/06 and 2006/07. |
| 8th July, 2002 | Spain | Signing cancelled. |
| 9th August, 2002 | Italy | Signed a four year contract with Fortitudo Bologna. Included NBA out clause after 2003/04 season. |
| 2003 NBA Draft | NBA | Drafted 25th overall by Detroit. |
| 8th July, 2004 | Italy | Left Fortitudo Bologna. |
| 14th July, 2004 | NBA | Signed four year, $4,776,941 rookie scale contract with Detroit. Included team option for 2007/08. |
| 20th October, 2006 | NBA | Detroit exercised 2007/08 team option. |
| 15th June, 2007 | NBA | Traded by Detroit to Toronto in exchange for a 2009 second round pick (#39, Jonas Jerebko) and a 2011 second round pick (#33, Kyle Singler). |
| 18th July, 2008 | Russia | Signed a three year contract with Khimki. |
| 13th August, 2009 | Russia | Left Khimki. |
| 18th August, 2009 | NBA | Signed and traded by Toronto with a partially guaranteed three year, $10.5 million contract with Milwaukee, along with Roko Ukic, in exchange for Amir Johnson and Sonny Weems. |
| 20th August, 2012 | NBA | Signed a partially guaranteed two year, $6 million contract with Houston. |
| 30th June, 2013 | NBA | Waived by Houston. |
| 17th July, 2013 | NBA | Signed a partially guaranteed three year, $9.75 million contract with Milwaukee. |
| 26th August, 2014 | NBA | Traded by Milwaukee, along with Miroslav Raduljica and a protected 2015 second round pick (deferred to 2016; #55, Marcus Paige), to L.A. Clippers in exchange for Jared Dudley and a 2017 first round pick (#23, O.G. Anunoby). |
| 29th August, 2014 | NBA | Waived by L.A. Clippers. |
| 6th March, 2017 | Argentina | Signed for the remainder of the season with Boca Juniors. |
| 17th August, 2017 | Spain | Signed a two month contract with Baskonia. |
| 3rd July, 2017 | Italy | Signed a one year contract with Fiat Torino. |
| 1998 - 1999 | Olimpia (Argentina) |
| 1999 - 2000 | Union de Santa Fe (Argentina) |
| 2002 - June 2002 | Reggio Calabria (Italy) |
| June 2002 - July 2002 | Real Madrid (Spain) |
| August 2002 - July 2004 | Fortitudo Bologna (Italy) |
| July 2004 - June 2007 | Detroit Pistons (NBA) |
| June 2007 - June 2008 | Toronto Raptors (NBA) |
| July 2008 - June 2009 | Khimki (Russia) |
| August 2009 - June 2012 | Milwaukee Bucks (NBA) |
| August 2012 - June 2013 | Houston Rockets (NBA) |
| July 2013 - August 2014 | Milwaukee Bucks (NBA) |
| August 2014 | L.A. Clippers (NBA) |
| March 2017 - June 2017 | Boca Juniors (Argentina) |
| August 2017 - October 2017 | Baskonia (Spain) |
| July 2018 - present | Torino (Italy) |
September 30, 2013
Zaza Pachulia, Carlos Delfino and Gary Neal – Milwaukee Bucks
This trio represents the most non-sensical summer of all. Milwaukee disbanded its previous fringe playoff team only to immediately invest $11.7 million guaranteed for each of the next two seasons in these three upside-less veteran backups. Whilst all three contracts could ideally be 25% smaller, no one is bad in a vacuum, but this is not the point. The point is that there is no point.
The Bucks spent $5.2 million on Pachulia this year to back up Larry Sanders. To put this into some context, the Philadelphia 76ers have spent $5,074,671 in salary cap space combined on acquiring all of Royce White, Tony Wroten, James Anderson, Tim Ohlbhrect, Rodney Williams and the rights to Furkan Aldemir, plus $1.7 million in cash.
There is a good chance that none of those six players ends up having a career equal to that of Pachulia, a quality backup for several years now. Aldemir probably has the best chance of it. However, we are talking merely about a backup calibre player on a lottery team. Why wouldn’t you give yourself six chances to find out?