Not a terrible deal, but DL needs to start moving pieces. Having 3 average-ish starters making $38mm is a **** plan. Time to jettison Gordo.
Well, ****. Maybe it's time for a new GM then.I think the idea is that they will end up being more than average-ish starters.
Well, ****. Maybe it's time for a new GM then.
When?
Burks has the most tradable contract
I personally think $10.5M/year is okay for Burks. He's the only player on the team right now that has the potential to be an All-star. For those that think it's an overpay, I'm not going to argue. But my whole argument why the Jazz should've just let Hayward walk instead of matching that outrageous max contract was to avoid setting a precedent for other players on the team. This is just the collateral damage caused by the Hayward blunder...
If you play on the Jazz, you don't need to be an all-star or even be close to being an all-star to get paid, in fact, you can have a terrible season and still get a big raise. Damn, I wish in the "real world" employers gave raises based on this premise.
Jazz should have signed Steph Curry instead for 4yr/44M
Favors is probably going to be a bit underpaid after this year is finished.
Alec Burks' ext. starts at $9.2 mil - climbs $9.9, $10.6, $11.3 mil - $41 mil total - $1 mil ea yr in incentives @BBallInsiders Utah Jazz
— Eric Pincus (@EricPincus) October 31, 2014
I didn't see this posted here. It seems like the contract is backloaded rather than front-loaded:
Here is our salary cap situation explained by slcdunk.com: https://www.slcdunk.com/nba-free-ag...-updated-with-new-alec-burks-contract-details
I wonder if we are even going to make the qualifying offer on Kanter? If we do, we won't have any flexibility whatsoever. We'd have 2 million more to spend and that's not taking into account the new rookies we will have to pay(lets say 1 million for second round rookie and, ~3 million for first round rookie), which would send us over the limit.