12-21-2020, 07:41 PM
(12-21-2020, 07:04 PM)omahen Wrote: What are you trying to say? That they rather took discounted deals than bet on themselves? With perhaps the exception of Isaac, all deals are huge. Fultz got 50 mil for 3 years, Kennard got 64 for 4 years, OG got 72 mil for 4 years,... None of them could have a realistic hope to get a much better deal next year.
It is the owners who are locking their guys rather than risk free agency. Like tax doesn't matter. Clippers will be deep in tax, Orlando has 125 guaranteed salary already with 12 players under contract (looks like Fournier will be gone).
And lots of those deals could have been better.
I agree with MFFL , OG for example would have never renewed if Giannis didn't. Raptors would have kept cap space.
Once the Giannis and Gobert of the world renewed, no one wanted to find someone auctioning on his RFA players and players knew the Covid situation and both decided it isn't worth the risk.