Yeah Deni’s contract should not be part of the gauge, just like Bradley Beal’s shouldn't. The best and worst contracts of the league.
Any idea what amounts this might come across for if an agreement is reached? Jabari Smith Jr is agreeing to 5 years $122 million, so I'd hope its not larger. On the one hand it will be nice to lock up Sharpe in case he improves, as well as not have him trying to hard to prove himself. On the other hand he kind of needs to prove he is worthy of a multi year $100+ million deal. Haven't ever seen Cronin sign a vet or rookie extension that was a good value deal so I'm a bit nervous we'll hear some unimaginable high number.
If he has an improved year with more offensive opportunities, there are a lot of teams stacking cap space next offseason. Yes, we can retain him because he'd be a RFA, but it could be the difference of paying him 5/130 versus 4/150 or something. I think if there's a reasonable deal to be made. It makes way more sense to extend
Three Years @ 81 Then he can earn a second deal soon. At this we are still betting on him at 27m year.
Bird in the hand sort of thing. A guaranteed 120-140 million now? Tough to pass up at 22. What if Billups moves him to the bench for Jrue? What if he gets hurt like he has every year? Then maybe less teams talk themselves in to his potential.
If I was any of these NBA players on rookie deals I'm taking whatever the best extension is my agent can get. Holding out for ~30 million more or whatever when you can lose the entire $100+ million deal with a devastating injury is an insane risk to take.
WHY ? Would you give a HUGE extension to someone who has not proven he can do on a game by game by game basis AKA being consistent . Now if he can show marked improvement by the AS game then go for by all means give him a deal but right now it's not worth MAYBE hampering this team with another bad contract.
If he really proves it then next summer your looking at a max deal which is closer to $200 million+ Odds are he shows promise next season along with some question marks and your probably still paying more for potential than production. That's just how it is with most rookie extension or young restricted free agents. They get paid on what teams hope they will do - not what they have done. If I was running the Blazers I'd do an extension if its not too high... but if I don't see a good discount then yeah I'm waiting until next summer.
Would you do it at the expense of Tamara ? Scoot ? Also good chance they will not give any extensions for players until the team is sold NOT finalized just sold unless the deal is like 3 yr for maybe max of 25m a year but anymore and I fear it would be a mistake.
Blazers don't have to choose, the luxury tax is over 200 million in those seasons. Camara is capped at 89 million over 4 years which is a great deal. Actually not agreeing to an extension is about the only way the Blazers could risk losing them. If Sharpe proves he is worth that 200 million and Scoot had a great season it might become much harder to pay all 3. Paying Sharpe 100-140 something million today makes that situation about impossible. But the downside is maybe Sharpe has a disappointing year and we're stuck with Sharpe on a bad overpaid deal.
