[Marks] What should Jalen Green’s next contract look like?
April 28, 2024
[Marks] What should Jalen Green’s next contract look like?
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My take is that we should try to extend Jalen Green this off-season ASSUMING he takes something in the 35MM range. Or make it higher, but make the contract laden with incentives.
Worst case, that number is a nicely tradeable amount that can be used in the 2025 off season to package with assets for a home run type deal to get a top 15 type player.
Good chance JG’s camp thinks he’s worth more, but hopefully his extracurricular activities mean he needs some more cash sooner versus waiting for ’25 when he’s a RFA.
RFA for now.
It should be with another NBA team
No one in their right mind would give an average player a max contract. Reality gonna be ugly.
It honestly depends on when we offer it to him… I’d rather offer a lowball-ish number now and lock him up if I can sell him on the idea of becoming competitive and making the next one potentially a supermax.
Something around what Jerami Grant got…5/150M but scale it up to where the last year is for 35-40M and a team option, so in reality it would be closer to 4/110M
I would bet the only way a deal gets done before he hits RFA is if they agree to a high value, low guaranteed deal, similar in structure to what they got KPJ on. I don’t think Green would take it, but it seems more likely than the team making a high value deal or Green accepting a low value deal. Also worth keeping in mind that they probably don’t want to extend him/Sengun until next summer anyways to maximize cap space in 2025 when FVV’s salary can get cut.
Knicks fan. I remember him going on an insane stretch towards the end of the regular season. Do you guys think that was a fluke?
There’s suggestions to lowball him but I highly doubt JG would accept. With the trade leaks that surrounded him, I don’t see how he takes the most he can given that the org was ready to trade him. No fault to anyone that’s just the business but the trade details having been exposed has put the FO in an awkward situation
Yeah tbh I don’t think a 13M discount from max is gonna cut it if I’m offering him an extension this year. I’m offering something in the high 20s like say 28M a year.
Otherwise he can wait till RFA. That 160M is the kind of money I’d offer in RFA if balls out and nobody gives him an offer.
Make him wait a little longer. By the end of this calendar year we have a better idea of his worth.
Fair article imo. Which Jalen are we making an offer to though? Early season Jalen isn’t even worthy of a 5/150 offer. Late season Jalen probably gets that 200+ max bag.
Every reason to ask him to prove who he is next season.
Mikal Bridges money at most
K
He’s an inefficient scorer. Those aren’t max contract or $20M a year contracts.
He’s closer to a 3/$45M deal and really has to prove himself. Even the , he’s RFA no matter what for the market to decide.
TBH I’m watching Bradley Beal right now and having nightmares about position signing Jalen for 5 years puts us in
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My take is that we should try to extend Jalen Green this off-season ASSUMING he takes something in the 35MM range. Or make it higher, but make the contract laden with incentives.
Worst case, that number is a nicely tradeable amount that can be used in the 2025 off season to package with assets for a home run type deal to get a top 15 type player.
Good chance JG’s camp thinks he’s worth more, but hopefully his extracurricular activities mean he needs some more cash sooner versus waiting for ’25 when he’s a RFA.
RFA for now.
It should be with another NBA team
No one in their right mind would give an average player a max contract. Reality gonna be ugly.
It honestly depends on when we offer it to him… I’d rather offer a lowball-ish number now and lock him up if I can sell him on the idea of becoming competitive and making the next one potentially a supermax.
Something around what Jerami Grant got…5/150M but scale it up to where the last year is for 35-40M and a team option, so in reality it would be closer to 4/110M
I would bet the only way a deal gets done before he hits RFA is if they agree to a high value, low guaranteed deal, similar in structure to what they got KPJ on. I don’t think Green would take it, but it seems more likely than the team making a high value deal or Green accepting a low value deal. Also worth keeping in mind that they probably don’t want to extend him/Sengun until next summer anyways to maximize cap space in 2025 when FVV’s salary can get cut.
Knicks fan. I remember him going on an insane stretch towards the end of the regular season. Do you guys think that was a fluke?
There’s suggestions to lowball him but I highly doubt JG would accept. With the trade leaks that surrounded him, I don’t see how he takes the most he can given that the org was ready to trade him. No fault to anyone that’s just the business but the trade details having been exposed has put the FO in an awkward situation
Yeah tbh I don’t think a 13M discount from max is gonna cut it if I’m offering him an extension this year. I’m offering something in the high 20s like say 28M a year.
Otherwise he can wait till RFA. That 160M is the kind of money I’d offer in RFA if balls out and nobody gives him an offer.
Make him wait a little longer. By the end of this calendar year we have a better idea of his worth.
Fair article imo. Which Jalen are we making an offer to though? Early season Jalen isn’t even worthy of a 5/150 offer. Late season Jalen probably gets that 200+ max bag.
Every reason to ask him to prove who he is next season.
Mikal Bridges money at most
K
He’s an inefficient scorer. Those aren’t max contract or $20M a year contracts.
He’s closer to a 3/$45M deal and really has to prove himself. Even the , he’s RFA no matter what for the market to decide.
TBH I’m watching Bradley Beal right now and having nightmares about position signing Jalen for 5 years puts us in