Still no word on whether he was "officially" offered an extension and if so will he accept it - why the wait if he does accept?
Only thing I can think of is he wants to use the pending extension as an excuse to skip national team stuff, then he agrees afterwards. Other possibility is there's negotiations of some sort.
I'd bee surprised if they don't already have a handshake agreement with Tou's agent about the timing of his extension. He's already featured in their marketing campaign...they'll take care of him I'm sure when they need to.
it might already be an agreed plan that Portland declines his 4th year option, submits a max QO next June, and he signs a new deal next summer for more money than the extension would have paid
maybe....all the way up to 25% of the cap as base salary? I'm not sure if there is any CBA limitation below that amount. CBA experts chime in please if the cap is 166M, a max base salary of 41-42M. So, a 4 year deal at 46M/year would be his max. 5 year would be 48M/year. He wouldn't be getting that...unless he averaged 24-7-5 next season. But a 30M/year deal might be possible...maybe probable? I think the goal is probably to delete that 4th year of his current deal and get him the big raise after his 3rd season. That could be done with the 4-year/89M extension we've all talked about. But maybe both sides are thinking he deserves more?
I would think the Blazers just offer that max they can this summer of 89 million. Maybe Camara ultimately decides to play it out for more money as you say, but theres no reason for the Blazers to begin negotiating those higher amounts for future seasons. It would be in their interest to get a deal locked up now. If Camara has a great year yes he could get closer to max, if he gets injures or declines he could get much less. Risky for a player that has never had a contract much above the minimum. Scoot and FRP are different as he'll have 40-50 million banked from his rookie deal. It would be odd if the Blazers aren't offering that 89 million - I suppose they could be trying to keep cap flexibility or some other reason. Or trying to not give a player option on the end. Just seems like there is no leaking of any of these amounts or news. We might not really know any updates until there either is or isn't an extension by Oct20.
Curious why this hasn't happened yet either. Seems it would be best to do it now before he makes all defensive first team next year.
again, I'd be pretty certain the Blazers made the offer, probably weeks ago. The holdup, if there is one, could be Camara and his agent believing he's worth more; and making a counteroffer that involved the Blazers declining the option for 2026-27 and giving him a bigger deal next summer. Camara has some leverage in this situation. So do the Blazers because it's just about guaranteed that Camara does not want to play for just 2.4M in 2026-27 and would rather play for 20-30M. Blazers can make that happen of course, if Portland submits a max QO to Camara and he goes out on the market and gets some crazy offer sheet the Blazers would have a problem
it may have already been on hold, or dismissed. Camara can probably get more than his max extension by Portland declining his 2026-27 option, submitting a max QO, then signing him as RFA it may be that any Sharpe extension is on hold as well It's possible that Cronin is already communicating with Dundon and both extensions are doable till mid October. So it still might happen
