THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

[F Gump]

Is this true, that the Mavs have a deadline to offer Wood an extension?

"Wood is in the final year of his contract, and he has an extension deadline on Dec. 24. Do the Mavs let him play out his deal and become an unrestricted free agent in the offseason, or will they offer him an extension before Christmas Eve?"

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This is all nonsense - in fact, it's about the exact opposite of what is accurate. They can sign him to a very limited extension now (max would be 2 yrs and about 30M-ish), then on Dec 24, they get MORE freedom added (max would be increased to 4 yrs and about 76M-ish). For bigger money than any of that, he would have to wait until free agency.

Or wait forever, perhaps.

I know that many here talked early on about him getting much bigger numbers than any extension allows, from someone, but based on what we have seen so far on the court as a Mav, I don't buy it at all. He can put up stats, but he clearly has other flaws that limit his effectiveness (and therefore his value imo). I keep coming back to the comp that he's a better version of Boban (a big who is enticing since he can put up attractive numbers) but who also can be somewhat hard to use because of the rest of his game. He does have more range and more mobility than Bobi, so that adds to the possibilities, and perhaps he can work out some of the other issues to some degree, so there's reason to hope, but I can't see any reason yet for massive money like he might be thinking he'll command.