*that can either do nothing else reliably or little else unreliably? His D isn’t that great as he has a history of getting lost on rotations.
What if this year doesn’t work out and the FO still believes? Do we give him another year?
Why? He has another year after the upcoming year. The passing of that amount of time only substantially improves his value if he has a career year over that time.
Oh, that’s another thing you could do with the capspace: give Royce a substantial raise this upcoming year by renegotiating it as part of an extension to save money on the added years. If we can avoid the hand-wringing about his RFA, that has real value.
We can extend Royce regardless of cap space. Once we get through free agency, we will be extending him.
You missed the part where we can give him a raise for this upcoming season. But only if we have cap-space.
Pretty sure that’s a no. Pretty sure you can only give such a raise with remaining capspace, capped by the soft cap. The Jazz have no cap, so this isn’t an option currently.
I'm 99% sure we can sign him to an extension sometime this fall that goes into effect for the 2020-21 season. It would be like Winslow's with Miami last fall.
K. I’m not talking 2019-2020. When you negotiate an extension, you can give a raise on years already under contract. If the Jazz had capspace, they could have the RAISE take effect for 2019-2020. They could do this to make the future years lighter per year or to structure the deal so that it’s more team-friendly than it might otherwise be (i.e. a team option somewhere [I think]).
