Shaedon Sharpe and the Portland Trail Blazers Agree To Four-Year, $90M Extension
What is good YouTube? Quinn Wade coming to y’all with that hot topic analysis on the hottest topics in the NBA. I’m back at it again on this beautiful Sunday in the fall time. And I’m not enjoying the weather right now because I’m in the studio giving y’all another classic. This time we going to talk about Shaden Sharp who actually just got paid $90 million. Now they already paid um Tammani Kamar. Now they’re going to pay Jayden Sharp. So these guys are very young. They’re in their 20s and they showing that they can play well together too. Sharp has really improved as a offensive player and that’s something that we knew that he could possibly be in the draft. Um, I I definitely think that this is something that’s going to be interesting to see how they go about this because it just doesn’t make sense with the guards that they have and the opportunity that they’re going to be giving some of these other players to develop. You want to lock them down as assets. So, it does make a little bit of sense that way because obviously you want to be able to get to wherever you feel like you need to get to, which is the playoffs and trying to find a way to get back to the NBA finals uh whenever you can. But Shaden Sharp, he’s a legitimate player. You know, he’s respectable in this league. Last year, he gave you 18 points, four rebounds, two assists, and shot 45% from the field. Was a little below average from three. He took six of them a game, but only made him at 31% which is bad. Fell down a little bit in his free throw making. The highest he shot was 82%. Last year he shot 78. Um he did start 52 games and he did play 72 of them. Showing you that if you need him to start, he can get you a bucket, he can get you a basket. Um the shooting comes and goes. The finishing is coming and going for him right now. He has become more improved. So all you can do is hope that this year he takes another leap forward, another step forward and becomes a better player and a better ball handler and just a better decision maker in general because that’s what you expect when a player goes from being raw to being the actual player that can go out there and help the team win. That’s what you’re looking for if you’re the Blazers based off the moves that they’ve been making. So, I’m always going to look at it like it makes a lot of sense to keep your young players even if you’re going to trade them because you can use them in the future. And I’m not saying they’re going to trade Shaden Sharp right away, but some of these guys you look at is like it’s starting to be a lot of guys playing the same position and blocking each other for getting minutes. And some of these guys are not head over shoulders of each other. They’re about the same or they can do some things the same. and you look at it like, well, you know, we gota we can’t pay all of them is basically what I’m saying. We can’t give everybody 9070 million dollars if with this roster that hasn’t even proved that they can make the playoffs yet. So, I do wonder what they’re going to do in the future because a lot of these guys are not really blowing me out the water mentality wise. I don’t really say that that much, but none of these people are blowing my mind when it comes to how good they are or if I really want to keep them. They all just nice, decent starters that need a superstar to make their jobs a little easier and then they can impact the game that way when it comes to winning. But at this point, you know, Portland, they looking at it like we just got to figure it out now and we’ll just figure out the rest later and in the future. But we rather just keep these guys happy while they’re still contributing and playing decent basketball out there together. And it can always go that way, too. I mean, I don’t really have a problem with the number, you know, um $90 million over four years for Shane Sharp isn’t crazy. Um, you know, it’s not bad, but you know, looking at this deal is kind of making you feel like, you know, everybody’s getting paid $90 million. You know, if you just a starter, that’s where you’re going to be at 90 to 120. They didn’t pay them 120, they pay them 110, they even pay him 100 million. But I guess that’s the way you need to just look at it if you’re a Portland Trailblazer fan. You have to look at like, well, at least we ain’t overpaying. We getting guys that’s respectable and we keeping them on decent tradable contracts and they also below the age of 28. So they can still grow and be a little bit better, a little bit more tradew worthy to give us a decent return if we so choose to want to go in a different direction. Or one of our guys are developing and we want to give them more time and get rid of this guy to get another asset that can help fit better or get us to a player that can be a better fit, which is the purpose of the draft or free agency or the trade deadline or before the trade deadline. You can figure out, make the tweaks, make the things. But the Portland Trailblers, they are far away um to me from being a legitimate team in the Western Conference. I think we all would agree on that. But I think that’s the part that’s very interesting with this move. Like I wasn’t really expecting Tammani and Shaden to get paid. You I’m not surprised that they got paid, but I’m not I’m really surprised that they got paid the type of money that they did because I’m just looking at like they’re kind of just decent players, you know? you know, I’m not in a rush to keep them. I’m not in a rush to get these type of players right now at this point of their career. So, you basically investing in your future, which is why this deal will always make sense business-wise if you’re a casual fan. Like, these numbers that they got them at actually makes sense for the Blazer and it actually makes sense for the player and it also just makes sense for the team they can possibly be on next year. And you can you can look at a lot of guys that’s been goo been getting moved around the last couple years and they all own deals like these or close to it. And that’s why a lot of people, like Chris Paul said, you kind of got to get as much money as you can because the NBA, if they if they can have it their way, they want you on a cheap contract so they can trade you or keep you and control you as much as they can. Especially in your having control of your own fate and your own destiny is a real powerful and hard thing to do because of the contracts locking you in. And they don’t really have to get rid of you. They can trade you to wherever they want you to go. So Shayden Sharp, he got a good bag. He got a good money. He put in a lot of work. He is improved. He is better than how he came into the league. Those are all good signs. Those are the type of guys you want. Those are the type of guys you try to keep as long as you can until you can find a better option or somebody that comes available that you feel is worthy of giving these guys up. Even if you have to package a couple of them together or add a couple picks, which they do have, you know, Portland, they they understand what they’re trying to do and they trying to keep the youth moving there to always have those options in the future to be open. You know, you don’t want the doors to close too fast. And I feel like these are worthy investments. Like Tammani Kamar and Shaden Sharp, they’re good. They’re good players. So, you know, I’m not gonna say anything other than that. But I just want the fans to understand this is business too. I don’t It’s not that the player suck. It’s not the player does not that good. It’s just how situations can be and where you trying to get to may not be as clear as you think it should be or you think it might be. And that’s why these deals are always going to make sense because they don’t hurt you really at all unless these guys get a serious injury that can come out of nowhere. But it is part of the game and I hope that they don’t because these players I want to continue to see what they can do and how well they can push this Portland team before they start to go in smaller or or try to make the overhaul in the future cuz these guys like I said even Anthony Simons is already gone. He was the first one to go really because they look at it like we can’t keep this guy forever. You know he’s good. He’s he’s he’s respectable, but we’re not really going anywhere with them at the same time. And we’re not going to pay them another contract when we got so many guys that we like and we want to give minutes to and we want to see what they can do and we going to have to pay them if they still show up because that’s their job to play basketball and it can hurt, you know, sometimes because now you got to do it all over again. Like now we got these guys good. Now, we don’t really know how much we have to keep or how much we have to let go of to get to the level that we’re trying to get as an organization. They’re still trying to get back to being a playoff team. That’s hard. That’s tough. That’s frustrating to do, especially because you can get to being a playoff team, but not a championship playoff team. So, they get it. You know, they working towards it. They taking steps, little steps. And, you know, sometimes that’s all you need to do is make progress. And sometimes you just need to focus on where you’re at and where you’re trying to get and just take it, you know, year by year and and that’s all you can do with the draft and free agency and trades and signings. So, you know, this is a step in the right direction, keeping the team happy, keeping your best players happy, and still trying to figure out how to get this team to play at their best as much as they can and seeing what that really looks like. 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