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[Woj] Donovan Mitchell signs 5/195M max designated rookie extension with the Jazz

Um. Yes. We have unbelievable collective resources in this nation but are addicted to dumping them into bull ****.

The middle and lower-classes are going to increasingly squabble and tear apart the fabric of our society for a share of what we’ve been losing for 40 years, while the rich rig the system and count their cash and the world careens toward global ecological collapse.

2020 isn’t a cursed year, it’s a product of an increasingly reckless society that will increasingly fail in the face of increasing problems.

The worst part is, once the **** really hits the fan, 100 years from now, 250 years from now, whenever, our leaders will look back and seriously wonder, “Where did we go wrong?” As if it’s not so ****ing obvious.
 
The worst part is, once the **** really hits the fan, 100 years from now, 250 years from now, whenever, our leaders will look back and seriously wonder, “Where did we go wrong?” As if it’s not so ****ing obvious.
Less than 50 if we don't start a World War II-level of mobilization ASAP.

Bear in mind that we just went BACKWARDS for the last four years, after DECADES of inaction.
 
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Who the f*** cares what he gets ... I sure as hell aren’t paying him , neither are you ...

We need him , he is a great young player . Still with upside ... far better than Hayward at any stage of his career ...

Go and ask 80 % of teams who would probably pay him double to have Don

Hope he has a great 5 years and signs another contract after that !
 
The player option makes it trash, and is exactly what I’ve said the entire time. He front office giving in on that is garbage. Wave goodbye cause he fought hard for that PO. Smh.
Stop it man. You have created so many annoying threads about DM forcing his way to NY...

This extension will give us at least 3-4 years before we decide to blow it up.
 
There shouldn’t be this much money in sports, period. If sports are a way to make the everyday lives of citizens a little better, then have cities own the teams, stop wildly inflating ticket prices, and broadcast games on local television.

Billions of dollars a year could be used towards materially improving the world instead of making billionaires and millionaires more money, and using taxpayer money to build stadiums.

But yeah, players should get a fair share for sure. Ain’t nothing fair about anybody making that kind of money though, at least not while we face the most dire, existential threat to the planet in the entire anthropocene and can hardly seem to muster any resources to try and stop it.
It’s entertainment. It’s value is set by the consumers willing to pay for the product. How much does Tom Cruise get for making a movie?

If someone does not like making minimum wage then they should do something about it. I did. Happy to give pointers to anyone on how to get there. Have done it many times, haven’t found that many people willing to walk the path I did. There are plenty of other paths. I chose not to live the way I was raised. Has no clue what I was doing, but in this country if you fight and hustle, good things will happen. If you complain and then show up for that same min wage job... we’ll go look in the mirror.

Happy for Don. Hope he makes every penny he can.
 
Assuming:
* no incentives beyond the $163MM guaranteed
* 37% Federal income tax for those in the top bracket over $1 MM
* 5% flat rate Utah state income tax
* split evenly over 5 years at 52 weeks per year at 40 hours per week

He only makes about $45k/hr.
 
Let’s be real he will likely bolt. Just the reality of today’s NBA. It’s fine though we have our 3 year window let’s see what happens. Also you monger as well max Gobert because you aren’t getting a better player to pair with Mitchell. After the three or four years we probably need to rebuild. But as a fan I am excited for the time we have. We have a legit shot.
Disagree. Throw everything ag Beal or Dame and really go for it.
 
To anyone trying to convince yourself Donovan demanding he get a PO enough to be the first player ever to get it means nothing you’re naive as ****. He’s gone the second he gets a chance. Stop trying to convince yourselves otherwise.
 
because you write in caps?
Just because I’m right. The first player to ever sign a player option deal, meaning, he pushed hard for the player option. Dude has a foot out the door, and y’all can deny it, until that trade request comes.
 
Shut up dude. You were saying he was gonna push for a 4 year deal with an option. This deal is the standard. He ain't looking to bolt.

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It’s literally not the standard. It has never happened until today under the current CBA. Congrats. I was off by a year. He wanted the full 5 years of guaranteed money, but he sure didn’t want the full 5 guaranteed years in Utah.
 
It’s literally not the standard. It has never happened until today under the current CBA. Congrats. I was off by a year. He wanted the full 5 years of guaranteed money, but he sure didn’t want the full 5 guaranteed years in Utah.
Holy **** you need to get a hobby or get laid or something. You're stressed about something an NBA player MIGHT do in 5 years. He plays through his 4 years then opts out and says he wants to leave, then what? What are you going to do about it?
Here's how I see it. He's going to be 29 during the season he can opt out of his contract. Seems like the perfect time to get a new 5 year contract or a 2+1 so he can get the 10 year vet supermax as soon as he possibly can.
But sitting here acting like it's the end of the world because he signed a 4+1 instead of a 5 year is nonsensical. He signed a contract extension not demand a trade. Even then if he did do that what are you going to do about it? Cry about it on the internet?
Enjoy the next 5 years of Don being on the Jazz instead of what may or may not happen in the future.
 
To anyone trying to convince yourself Donovan demanding he get a PO enough to be the first player ever to get it means nothing you’re naive as ****. He’s gone the second he gets a chance. Stop trying to convince yourselves otherwise.
Tatum and every other rookie will do the same thing. This lines up timing better for future contracts regardless of where they play. Assuming he has a foot out the door is ignorant.
 
Just because I’m right. The first player to ever sign a player option deal, meaning, he pushed hard for the player option. Dude has a foot out the door, and y’all can deny it, until that trade request comes.

He's smart to keep his options open as much as possible. Maybe by then we'll have re-hired Tyrone Corbin as our head coach. You never know.
 
He's smart to keep his options open as much as possible. Maybe by then we'll have re-hired Tyrone Corbin as our head coach. You never know.

Oneye or One"bad"eye or Badeye or whatever was saying before that Don would bolt as soon as possible. Here were Don's options (the number on the left represents guaranteed years under contract):

- 2 years: Play out the current contract (this year and next)
- 3 years: Sign a 2 year extension (this year and two more years)
- 3 years: Sign a 3 year extension with a 3rd year player option
- 4 years: Sign a 3 year extension with no player option
- 4 years: Sign a 4 year extension with a 4th year player option
- 5 years: Sign a 4 year extension with no player option
*** 5 years: Sign a 5 year extension with a player option ***
- 6 years: Sign a 5 year extension with no player option

*** - the contract he signed
The last one, in bold, is the only choice he could have made where was guaranteed to stay longer. So he passed up on 6 other routes that could let him leave quicker and passed on only 1 route where he would stay longer. The fact that Badeye thinks this is a sign that Don wants to leave is absolutely ignorant. Don clearly is not showing any desire to leave.
 
Donovan pushing for a PO doesnt mean anything other than he knows he has Utah by the balls. Doesnt mean he is going/wants to leave, it just means he knows he can exert a lot of control on the franchise.
 
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