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[F Gump]

Maybe great player.  Just not sure what the market is in two years when the suns are stuck and A 30 year old booker is making 75 million.  I mean the market cannot be high right? Wait a minute…Booker for AD next offseason?  I just don’t know if I can stomach that extension though.

I want to move AD. But for Booker? No thank you, I'm not even a little bit interested.

The PHX owner is a really slow learner, isn't he? He just got scorched from having players with bloated deals - he had to essentially give away the great AD (who was not overpaid), and is buying out Beal of over 100M (who was overpaid)- because his team salary was way too big and he couldn't field a decent team around them. And now, years before it's even necessary, he's maxing out Booker (who is good but is far from "great") as much as he can, as long as he can, into the next decade? Never know if he might get injured between here and there, or somehow drop off in skill. Sooooo dumb.