Kyrie Irving: we already named a city after him!

[DanSchwartzgan]

I don't know the numbers but J Will said the offer was 3 years and north of 140 million so approaching  close to 50 million per season.

Thanks.  Yeah, I heard it wrong.  $140mm is a rounding up of his max extension with Brooklyn taken over 3 years (20% raise on current salary plus 8% raises after that).  That would have started at $43.8mm instead of the $46.9mm starting number he will be eligible for this summer (which is based on the cap at 35% rather than a raise off of his old salary).

The question we don’t have an answer to is was Kyrie willing to sign a full max 3 year with Brooklyn if they had offered it?  If so, can Dallas get him for that some number?  That is an $3mm discount off of his full max and even that seemingly small savings can make a difference to Dallas’s flexibility.