Yes, team friendly deal. He is the same age as rookie Keegan Murray. He showed in January what he can do, and still can get better.
Just fyi... 7 mil aav is like tax payer MLE level. It's impossible to find anyone of Nas' caliber for that kinda cash. What are you griping about now?
Damn that's not a lot. If he can fullfill his potential that's a steal. And if not, it's not that bad.
Nas has the physical attributes that you can't teach, he is athlethic and has shown earlier in the year that he could be a solid player. 7/year is a good deal. He now has even more incentive to work hard if he wants that 9-figure contract. Go Blazers!
I am done with players who can't stay healthy. At best they are unproductive and worst they disrupt the team by flitting in-and-out of the line-up.
as someone said...it's a contract that matches his upside while accounting for his injury history. And if nothing else, it will become a fairly tradeable contract and decent salary filler in a larger trade. Also, considering he's making 4.2M this season, and his 1st year salary of the extension is probably somewhere in the 6M range, trading him this season, if it comes to that, won't carry any significant BYC differential. Although, maybe with the extension he can't be traded this season?...anybody know? all things considered I probably like Little's 4 year deal more than the deals for Ant and Nurk
better trade Dame, he hasn't been healthy for a few years. Oh and Nurk. And Grant had issues. And Sharpe got injured in summer league, better trade him. Did you know?: The average NBA player misses 18% of his games throughout his career. thats almost one fifth of each season, On average. Unfortunately, I think your wants are fairly unrealistic.
It is worth the gamble. I remember last year some said they would not extend Ant for 7 mil per year because he had not proved anything. How did that work out?
If Naz could become PJ Tucker type player by being a banger, scrapper, solid D, with a decent shot w/o all the high flying, he'll earn a much better contract in 4 years if not sooner. He must become tough and durable.
It would be interesting to see the breakdown on that. How many games missed by category, e.g., impact player and role player? Obviously, there would be grey area for the John Wall types who slide from category 1 to 2 due to said injuries, but I suspect a deeper dive into the data would show that the players that are contributing most to winning teams are not really reflective of that 18%. And the ones who are are probably buried on benches most of their career.
in what way? last season, per36, he averaged 18pts-5reb-7ast. 31 minutes a game. His overall efficiency wasn't great but he's a couple of years younger than Simons, making 20M instead of 25M and it's a leveraged team-friendly deal with less than 16M guaranteed with June 2024 trigger dates (he's still on rookie scale this season). Reportedly, he can be waived at any time in the 4 year deal without the team having to pay any further salary. So that's a very trade-worthy contract
im not so sure of that: games played last season: Dbooker-68 Cpaul-70 Dayton-69 scurry-63 Kthompson-32 Dgreen-63 Giannis-61 Middleton-68 Pgeorge- 54 Kleonard-52 there are more, but most all of these players were on teams last year that went deep into the playoffs. missing 10-20 games a season for impact star players does not seem to affect their ability to win or be a contender. Based off of last season only though.
