Gordan Giricek has become the latest player to leave the NBA for a bigger payday.

Giricek finished last season as a member of the Phoenix Suns. On Tuesday he signed a two-year contract -- with an option to return to the NBA next summer -- with Turkey's premier club Fenerbache.

"We looked around the NBA," his agent Marc Fleisher said. "Everybody was moving very slowly. And there were great opportunities for him to play overseas for a lot of money. Fenerbache are Turkish champions and a EuroLeague team. It was a tough decision, and it came down to Fenerbache and Triumph, in Russia."