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Jazz, George Hill taking contract talks down to wire

Siro said:
Why is fewer years a positive? I think it would be easier to move Hill at 20m with 2-3 years left, and actually get something in return, than move 25m on an expiring contract.
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Because he's older. Say he gets hurt in a year or two it's easier to pawn the salary off on a crappy team because it comes off of the cap earlier. Easier for teams to project.

If he was entering his prime more years are generally better.

Think of it like this in 3 years would you offer 34 year old hill 20 M for one year? Likely no.
 
All great news. Jazz have Hill for the playoffs before he's due the biggest contract of his career
 
♪alt13 said:
I am curious what the Jazz offered and what Hill wants.
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Me too... I'm sure they will offer up the details (not really). I need one of our ace reporters to get some details... that might be less likely to happen.

Maybe Marc stein will just make something up
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Because he's older. Say he gets hurt in a year or two it's easier to pawn the salary off on a crappy team because it comes off of the cap earlier. Easier for teams to project.

If he was entering his prime more years are generally better.

Think of it like this in 3 years would you offer 34 year old hill 20 M for one year? Likely no.
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I wouldn't pay 33 year old Hill 25m for one year either. If he doesn't get hurt, then we can get more value trading him in a couple of years if he's on a 4 year contract, I would think. Either way, it isn't clear why one situation is better than the other. All I know is that I wouldn't want to pay Hill the max, and be unable to resign our players/add new players in the future.

Given that Hill thinks he can get more than the Jazz can offer this year, then we can assume that 3/88 wasn't good enough. He's probably looking for 4/100m+. Which I wouldn't do.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Me too... I'm sure they will offer up the details (not really). I need one of our ace reporters to get some details... that might be less likely to happen.

Maybe Marc stein will just make something up
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This is a bummer(assuming thsee tweets can be trusted).
I'm in your camp. I would love to extend Hill for 3 more even if it's an overpay but the 4th year he will demand in FA worries me.
It seems to me a contract extension makes sense monetarily for both parties. Kinda worried that this isn't getting done cuz hill doesn't think haward is going to come back.
 
I'm just going to assume he looked at 3/88 right now and said he thinks he can get at least 4/90... maybe 4/120 and he walked.

I'm going to assume DL laid it all out there and Hill balked. It's the only thing that makes sense to me on this... just not sure why they'd discuss it if the max we could give isn't enough.

3/88 is really 3/84 in real dollars as we have to pay the 4.2 to get to the floor anyway. Maybe this was one of those setup discussions for the summer.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Sign Hill and Gordon is virtually 100% certain to re-sign. Let Hill dangle and Gordon may waffle. One of the two had to commit first. Hill was willing to do so.

If Utah trots out Dante/Neto as the PG duo next year, Jazz are fighting for the 8th seed. Does Hayward want that? If I were Gordon and DL had the chance to extend a good friend, ensuring the team would be fighting for a top seed, then didn't, I'd go to Boston.

Call me overly dramatic, but I DL just put at risk a franchise player. Won't be one bit surprised to see Hill in SA, Gordon in Boston and the Jazz stuck in the worst possible situation: not bad enough to get a top lottery pick and not good enough to compete.
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Well, if Gordon is worth Max money then he should at least be able to take this team to a top seed by his skill set. If he doesn't have the next level ability in him it would be better to try to get the Boston pick to bring in a real star to pair with Gobert.
 
lol @ ppl who thought he would take a serious hometown discount. There goes that theory.
 
This is likely his last BIG contract, especially with the TV money again this year. Foolish to think he'd settle for less than max.
 
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