no doubt in my mind he’ll be 2nd option on this team with Nurk/Grant being 3/4th options. He’s going to have ball in his hands a lot so he can shoot whenever he chooses guessing he has green light from Billups
there is no team that would come close to offering Ant that much I hope Cronin lets Ant, and his agent, play the market this summer because if he does, he'll be able to sign Ant for 18M/year
Very likely he gets 4 full years and maybe a 5th. Just hesitant because it will be a different role, not nearly the same opportunities, guarding bigger players, and in games that mean something. Almost nothing like what he did in his short stint. Not to say he isn't good. But when is the last time the Blazers hadn't out RFA/FA contract that was worth its value?
22 million for a player has yet in his career have played decent defense. Plus I don't see him put up the offense numbers like last year with this team healthy.
Players don't get paid for what the have done, if they did Dwight Howard and Melo would've been getting max contracts in recent years instead of minimum deals. They get paid on what teams think they will do, or hope they will do.
I hate that option. Some team will throw him 2 with a player option we're forced to match, and then he's an UFA at 24. No thanks.
110M/5 or 110M/4? 110M over 5 seasons is very reasonable where the contract would likely start out at 19M and end up above 24M. 110M over 4 seasons would be a worse deal than CJ's because Ant getting a contract where he is averaging 27.5M a year given what he's done is absolute nonsense.
Overpay for the position they had for him which was SF. He was not very effective. If they had signed him to play his natural position and had minutes for him there, it would have been better, but they didn't. I fear similar for Ant. They will be paying him for a position in which he hasn't played that well. The number he put up where in a position and situation that won't exist this year. Hope it works out, but it will be a wait and see we are paying ahead of time for.
