[Charania] BREAKING: Dallas Mavericks nine-time NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving is declining his $43 million player option and intends to sign a three-year, $119 million contract with the franchise, sources tell ESPN. The deal includes a player option in the 2027-28 season.

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1. Best scenario, love you Kai

2. Risky contract to a guard coming off an acl

3. We gotta stop using the term “BREAKING” so much. I thought he was headed to free agency.

4. I love the NBA offseason.

5. i wish i could turn down 43M to make an extra 79M

6. Wow he took a discount

7. Damn, good deal for the Mavs

8. Technically less than $40 million annually, Nico Harrison masterplay

9. Not surprising especially since we’re getting Flagg

10. So they did pay him less than 40

11. The Emperor Palpatine main gets his bag

12. So he got the Rudy Gobert deal? What’s the better contract?

13. Damn, Kyrie folded on the 40 million. Now he only gets 39.66M per year on average :(( poor guy.

14. ANOTHER NICO MASTERCLASS

15. lol people were clowning too

16. someone make a post to contrast the comments here from the post an hour ago

17. I’m happy for him. I will never forget the magical performance he and Luka put on in the run to the finals last year (and I say this as a neutral). It was some of the most fun I’ve ever had watching sports.

18. I like it for Dallas. This is your bed now, but it’s a bed with Kyrie, AD and Cooper Flagg

19. All those idiots in the other thread must be upset

20. Crawling seeing a mirage in the desert to sign on the dotted line.

21. So a 6’2 guard after ACL is still worth $40M, but Luka isn’t worth a supermax.

22. Kyrie making his choice to stay in Dallas, I guess everyone was wrong about why he was at Lakers games

23. Comments on the thread an hour ago already aged so poorly lmao

24. An ACL is not as bad as an Achilles injury with. ACL with a good surgeon and medical advancements and a lot of help you can recover back to 100%. However with Achilles that’s much harder to do. So this contract is quite good for the Mavs.

25. Breaking news: highly paid athlete makes more money.

26. Hilarious. Didn’t hit the $40 million a year mark like was reported, signed instead for $39.66 million a year.

    Sounds like Nico “won” another negotiation!

27. Good deal by Kyrie. Still paid and can get one last decent Contract before he retires.

28. You’re telling me Mavs are more comfortable giving post ACL tear 33 year old kyrie irving a 3 year deal than 26 year old Luka

29. didn’t he say he thought he was getting lowballed earlier per shams?

30. What a fun off-season so far lol

31. Good deal

32. oh my god my life has changed

33. The last thread I read said Nico was dumb for saying win now with AD and lowballing his other star

34. my heart almost sank, I thought he just left the team bro 😭

35. Bruh Ary report said he accepted it lol

36. Fuck this, let him walk if he’s gonna opt out of a year he’s not gonna play.

37. The League has changed so much. There was literally no players getting this type of money this late in their careers.

38. Go to the rockets

39. “Is declining” Had me in the first half, I won’t lie.

40. If he took the max 8% raises, it would be $36.7M, $39.6M, $42.8M

    So $76.3M for two years – $32M for the one extra year – if he opts out

    $119M for three years or $76M in new money for the two years if he doesn’t opt out

41. Is this front loaded? Because would be really good for both Kyrie and Mavs if it was given his current situation.

42. Seems like a lot for a 33 year old coming off an acl tear

43. They shave off about 7m from his player option to bring his salary down from 43m to 36m, which gives them enough flexibility to sign a caretaker PG for the tax MLE

44. Glad we got him locked up now past this season

45. You had me in the first half, not going to lie.

46. Trading Luka for a walking talking injury, and handing 33 year old flat earthier $120 million over the next 3 years!

    Did Magic Johnson get a GM job again?