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Hayward has agreed to an offer with Hornets

1)***** Ak’s contract was only 2 years longer. No way Hayward is traded after his third year. His contract was $86/6 years, or 14.3M per year. Hayward’s is $63/4, which is $15.75M per year.

Please promote healthy discussion. Thanks.
 
Predict the 24 answers.. (could be fun)
I can predict the answers for ya.

"We have to spend the money anyways and hayward is the only player we can spend it on"
 
Lol

1. They are going to anyways so to hell with it
2. White Privilege (all rights and proceeds are property of Cyrone Torbin)
3. It will not affect the teams overall ability to resign Kanter & Burks
4. Hayward will play better under an actual system
5. Last year was an abberation of a year for hayward
6. Only Hayward, God and lebron averaged 16, 5 & 5
7. Hayward has a dirty secret on DL
8. Lindsey needs a scapegoat when things go south
9. They plan to trade Kanter and or Burks
10. He's not AK
11. Exum is our star and they want Hayward to be his Pippen
12. Gail has a thing for Hayward

There is the first 12 to get things started.
Pretty good job i must say
 
Please promote healthy discussion. Thanks.
How's that not healthy? I don't think the length of the contract matters, as the Jazz were in contention the 2nd year of AK's contract, so it wouldn't have mattered if he signed a 4 year vs a 6 year. Either way his contract would habe ended up screwing over the jazz. What's your opinion?
 
It certainly existed, and many of us are still here. I wouldn't say there are a LOT of posters from that era still here, though. Maybe 10-20?

I think a lot of us changed our names after the server had a meltdown a few years ago. I know I did. There are probably more than you would think.
 
Lol

1. They are going to anyways so to hell with it
2. White Privilege (all rights and proceeds are property of Cyrone Torbin)
3. It will not affect the teams overall ability to resign Kanter & Burks
4. Hayward will play better under an actual system
5. Last year was an abberation of a year for hayward
6. Only Hayward, God and lebron averaged 16, 5 & 5
7. Hayward has a dirty secret on DL
8. Lindsey needs a scapegoat when things go south
9. They plan to trade Kanter and or Burks
10. He's not AK
11. Exum is our star and they want Hayward to be his Pippen
12. Gail has a thing for Hayward

There is the first 12 to get things started.

13. Free agents don't want to play in Utah unless they're forced to.
14. He was the secret tank commander, sucking on purpose to lose games and get Corbin fired.
15. Guaranteed to be an all-star IF he leaves Utah. Don't ask why, it just happens, especially in Charlotte and Atlanta.
16. Quin, Medicine Man will fix his game, just like he did with Junkyard Dog.
17. White rappers are rare. You have to pay a premium to get them.
18. Missionary is his favorite position.
 
I wonder if we should have offered Hayward in the trade offers to the Cavs and Bucks
 
I remember reading something similar last year. I think I also read that is was somewhere between 13 and 14. Probably still too high, but based on prior experience, what did they think would happen?
One article had the Jazz and Hayward "several million apart." I tend to believe that was on a per/basis. If it's just a few million over the life of the deal, you split the difference and call it a day.
 
One article had the Jazz and Hayward "several million apart." I tend to believe that was on a per/basis. If it's just a few million over the life of the deal, you split the difference and call it a day.

That was what I thought was dumb if true... if it was a few million over the life of the deal you can figure that out.
 
One article had the Jazz and Hayward "several million apart." I tend to believe that was on a per/basis. If it's just a few million over the life of the deal, you split the difference and call it a day.

The Jazz could have looked ahead to see who would be on the market this year. It was pretty clear that not many players would be available and any RFAs would get inflated deals. This is not a new concept. I also read the "several million apart". That same article said he wanted more than Favors put less than the max received by Paul George.

So yes, we would have overpaid him last year, but it would have been for a lower amount, probably $13-14M as I posted earlier.

The only way I wouldn't re-sign him is if I knew we had better long-term options for better value. That includes potential salary dumps for picks, etc. I'd be calling every team to see what they may have needs for and make an educated decision.

If nothing else is on my radar, I re-sign him knowing a 23% max hit on the cap won't hamper my ability to keep my team intact, while preserving flexibility to make other moves if necessary. If it was taking up our full cap, it would be a different argument.
 
The way the deal was constructed has to make one believe that Cash Gordon may not even want to be here. Also am afraid that the Jazz believe that Favors deal was so favorable (especially now) that they look at this CG deal as a no brainer and will match. I mean we probably would have lost one of them if the both were UFA's this offseason and I would think they would have paid Favors over Hayward. Now perhaps it has all just balanced out in the Jazz FO minds.
 
1)***** Ak’s contract was only 2 years longer. No way Hayward is traded after his third year. His contract was $86/6 years, or 14.3M per year. Hayward’s is $63/4, which is $15.75M per year. Gordon is getting paid more per year than AK was. I want to add that it was only in AK’s 2nd year of the max contract that we made the WCF, so that goes to show how fast a team can change after big signings. AK’s max signing affected the team going forward from that point, with 5 seasons that the Jazz could’ve used that salary cap space for other needs.
2)***** Silly argument. Every player has issues in the NBA. AK’s first 3 seasons he played 82, 80, and 78 games. After he signed the max, he played 69,70,72,67,58, and 64 games. Gordon on the other hand has played 72, 66, and 72 games in his first 3 seasons respectively. Who’s to say he won’t get hurt? Again, lame argument
3)***** And at our time, experts believe Gordon is nowhere NEAR the level of any other max player in the league.*
4)***** And the guy who’d rather play league of legends and starcraft (Platinum league – that takes a very long time reaching that) than work on his game is better?
5)***** Then why did AK look worse after D Will, Boozer, and Company arrive? He was taught by sloan. The system didn’t change. He just NATURALLY became the 4th option and 5th option.* Corbin tried to run the same system as Sloan.
6)***** Again, false. As I stated before, it was the 2nd year of his MAX contract that we went to the WCF. His 3rd and 4th year were prime years for the jazz to contend had we spent money on other players.
7)***** That’s a valid point that it doesn’t have the same impact on the team, however, the salary cap was $43M and then it jumped up $7M the next year to $50M.* The salary cap this last year was $59M and will rise $63M. The salary cap is always changing, but that doesn’t make signing right if the player is getting overpaid.*** https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/info/salary_cap
8)***** The year before AK signed the max, he was averaging 16ppg, 3 blocks, 3 assists, 6 rebounds, and shooting 49% from the field, which is better than what Hayward had his year before he got the max. Both are overrated versatile point forwards who had good stats during their contract years on crappy lottery teams.

I am not going to respond to everything, but I disagree with a lot of your logic. The main point (which I capitalized) is number 7. The signing won't have the same impact on the team. Extending AK caused us to go over the cap in year 2 of the contract (just under $1M short of the cap in 2004/5). We are in a completely different boat. Maxing Hayward would leave us room for another max contract. So it isn't the same decision.

On another note, I am not a huge fan of Favors (don't think he has much upside), but the Jazz got him for a great price.
 
I am not going to respond to everything, but I disagree with a lot of your logic. The main point (which I capitalized) is number 7. The signing won't have the same impact on the team. Extending AK caused us to go over the cap in year 2 of the contract (just under $1M short of the cap in 2004/5). We are in a completely different boat. Maxing Hayward would leave us room for another max contract. So it isn't the same decision.

On another note, I am not a huge fan of Favors (don't think he has much upside), but the Jazz got him for a great price.
Not really. You are forgetting cap holds going forward. I think we have about $12.5M left this year and will be right up against the cap next season.
 
Has it even been confirmed the offer will be 4 year 63 mil?
Reporters are wrong all the time.
Maybe it will be a lower figure.
 
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