Jack Strop
Well-Known Member
Doubtful. He was likely telling the Jazz: Gordon wants me there. I have the leverage. It will take $25M/per to re-sign me. He had the Jazz over a barrel, thinking they'd HAVE to give in because that's what Hayward was requiring in order to re-sign. Hats off to Lindsey for not wrecking the franchise. Even if Hayward goes elsewhere, paying Hill in the range of 4/$100M - give or take - would have been disastrous.So we could have waited on our PG problem and got Hill for less than projected?
And no, I'm not claiming that's what he was asking. We just heard he had rejected 4/$80M as an extension and had tossed around the word, "max." So I'm taking the midpoint. TBH, I think MAYBE, had he even come down to 4/$90M, Utah may have given him an extension, seeing as how a lot of that could have been thrown into 2016/17.