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The Official Extend/Resign Rubio (now/1year)

I'm always confused on how these things work, but I think the Jazz can extend him using their cap-space in 2018 (if they have any). So they pay him more money in 2018-2019 as a way to make his future contract not as expensive.

Like if they wanted to sign him to a 4 year, 80 million dollar deal, they could pay him a certain portion of that in the last year of his current deal.

Like the Sixers did with Covington: https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2017/11/15/16658798/robert-covington-extension-sixers-contract

I'm not sure how that works exactly tho. Can the Jazz go past the cap to do that as long as they dont go past the LT? Or can they only do that if they have cap-space?

If I'm understanding your question correctly, then no, we can not go past the cap to do that. At least I don't think we can. We attempted to do such with Hill last season. We essentially offered him 88.3M for three years, with the three year extension being for 74.7M and the remaining value of the offer being the 13.6M we had in cap space last season. He turned the offer down and ironically enough, we used that cap space to acquire Rubio in our trade with the Wolves just before July 1st as Rubio made 13.4M last season, just under that remaining 13.6M in space we had.
 
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If we could bring Rubio and Exum back for 3 or 4 years at around $25 million combined per year (Rubio $14ish and Exum $10ish), I think we did great work. When those contracts run out, Rubio will likely move on or we keep him for much lower. Exum will either be ready for a massive pay day, or we move on.

LOL. 25M is fine but those numbers should be more like Rubio at 20M and Exum at 5M.
 
I believe the most we can offer Rubio in an extension this summer is a salary that starts at 120% of 15M... so around 18M... I feel like that is more than he’d get on the open market.

So we could likely do an extension if we wanted, but I don’t see a reason to do one unless we get a decent discount.

Teams tha need a decent PG and that may be in the market are kind of tough to find. Phoenix? Orlando? Chicago? Indiana? Not sure those teams are desirable or super interested.
 
nah.. he did better in second half but first half him and Crowder were a complete disaster and a big reason Thunder went on a run. No wonder they both ended up with negative +/- in such a blowout.
true that .. first stint was lame apart from the two buckets.. Crowder was woeful Royce made a few clangers
Fingers crossed the bench is better today
 
I believe the most we can offer Rubio in an extension this summer is a salary that starts at 120% of 15M... so around 18M... I feel like that is more than he’d get on the open market.

So we could likely do an extension if we wanted, but I don’t see a reason to do one unless we get a decent discount.

Teams tha need a decent PG and that may be in the market are kind of tough to find. Phoenix? Orlando? Chicago? Indiana? Not sure those teams are desirable or super interested.

Personally, I don’t think Indy or Chicago would be interested. Maybe I’m wrong though.
 
I believe the most we can offer Rubio in an extension this summer is a salary that starts at 120% of 15M... so around 18M... I feel like that is more than he’d get on the open market.

So we could likely do an extension if we wanted, but I don’t see a reason to do one unless we get a decent discount.

Teams tha need a decent PG and that may be in the market are kind of tough to find. Phoenix? Orlando? Chicago? Indiana? Not sure those teams are desirable or super interested.

If Rubio goes into next year this hot, he would probably get more. He'd be a savvy vet with playoff experience, great with the fans, and is a pro in his prime. Just keep that in mind. That said, I think he'd re-sign with Utah.
 
If Rubio goes into next year this hot, he would probably get more. He'd be a savvy vet with playoff experience, great with the fans, and is a pro in his prime. Just keep that in mind. That said, I think he'd re-sign with Utah.

He’s shooting 38% from the field and 35% from three in the series... so he’s had one hot game one medium game and one bad one...

I doubt he gets more than that but he’s tough to peg.
 
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