Extend Hood ?

[MDAV28]

The Jazz will do well to get Hood for $70M. I'm looking at other comps in the league...

-- Khris Middleton signed for 5 years and $70M.
-- Evan Fournier is signed for 5 years and $85M.
-- Tim Hardaway Jr. signed for 4 years and $72M.

Hood could get an offer around $80M with a 4th year player option, even if the cap is flat. I was hoping the Jazz could extend him for 4/$65M.

Who do you think offers that though? Not many teams will have that type of cap space. 76ers... maybe? I feel like they have too many big contracts to hand out in the next few years. Bulls will resign Lavine before Hood. Lakers have bigger fish to catch. Mavericks could but that would mean letting go of Seth Curry. Hawks seem like the most possible. Even with that, KCP, Avery Bradley, Will Barton, JJ Redick, Lou Williams, Seth Curry, etc are all UNRESTRICTED free agents.

 

[Jazz4ever]

The Jazz will do well to get Hood for $70M. I'm looking at other comps in the league...

-- Khris Middleton signed for 5 years and $70M.
-- Evan Fournier is signed for 5 years and $85M.
-- Tim Hardaway Jr. signed for 4 years and $72M.

Hood could get an offer around $80M with a 4th year player option, even if the cap is flat. I was hoping the Jazz could extend him for 4/$65M.

Problem is those players were trending up at the time, Hood is trending down. That's the main problem I see in DL offering 4/80.

 

[DasJazz]

BTW, I think Hood can easily average 18 ppg playing off the Rubio/Gobert pick-and-roll with Ingles and Johnson spacing the floor.

Been saying this for a few years now regarding Hood's PPG. He has the talent, just hasn't had the green light as much as Hayward and also was injured the majority of last season.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Who do you think offers that though? Not many teams will have that type of cap space. 76ers... maybe? I feel like they have too many big contracts to hand out in the next few years. Bulls will resign Lavine before Hood. Lakers have bigger fish to catch. Mavericks could but that would mean letting go of Seth Curry. Hawks seem like the most possible. Even with that, KCP, Avery Bradley, Will Barton, JJ Redick, Lou Williams, Seth Curry, etc are all UNRESTRICTED free agents.

The only guy who rivals Hood on your list is Avery Bradley. Any team that wants a shooting/scoring wing who can initiate secondary offense will like Hood. Hood is only 24 right now, and just rounding out his game.

Lets say Evan Fournier and Allen Crabbe's contracts are inflated due to the increase in the cap. Hood is still a $70M player, and all it takes is one team to clear some space and make him an offer at or above that number.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Problem is those players were trending up at the time, Hood is trending down. That's the main problem I see in DL offering 4/80.

I don't think DL will offer Hood $80M over 4 years either, but someone else could offer him that in free agency. As for Hood trending down, I don't agree with you. His scoring and likely his efficiency as well will be up this year.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

If I'm Hood I don't sign anything less than the max. He gets to be a first option. He could average 20 this year and that basically guarantees someone gives him the max.

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[Ferguson_Mellochill]

If I were the Spurs, after this season I'd take Tony Parker's current salary and Manu's current salary and offer it to Hood. Hood and Kawhi would look good together on the wing. Hood could be pretty ideal as a third scorer.

Pelicans will also probably have space if they don't extend Cousins. They're dying for talent on the wing right now. They're giving real minutes to Ian Clarke.

 

[MDAV28]

The only guy who rivals Hood on your list is Avery Bradley. Any team that wants a shooting/scoring wing who can initiate secondary offense will like Hood. Hood is only 24 right now, and just rounding out his game.

Lets say Evan Fournier and Allen Crabbe's contracts are inflated due to the increase in the cap. Hood is still a $70M player, and all it takes is one team to clear some space and make him an offer at or above that number.

Bradley and KCP should be more sought after considering they're more proven and unrestricted. Those contracts were signed when everybody had money. There is a shockingly low amount of money to go around next offseason.

If I'm Hood I don't sign anything less than the max. He gets to be a first option. He could average 20 this year and that basically guarantees someone gives him the max.

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Yeah the Jazz would. So if I'm the Jazz I don't extend Hood either, let him play for his $.

If I were the Spurs, after this season I'd take Tony Parker's current salary and Manu's current salary and offer it to Hood. Hood and Kawhi would look good together on the wing. Hood could be pretty ideal as a third scorer.

Pelicans will also probably have space if they don't extend Cousins. They're dying for talent on the wing right now. They're giving real minutes to Ian Clarke.

Spurs screwed themselves with the Pau deal. Doubt the Pels choose Rodney Hood over Demarcus Cousins.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If I'm Hood I don't sign anything less than the max. He gets to be a first option. He could average 20 this year and that basically guarantees someone gives him the max.

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He'd do well to take a 4/80. He's not made crazy money net yet and even if he scores 20 a game I'm not sure he gets maxed... the market will be extremely tight next year. Suffer a knee injury and he may end up on a one year make good deal. He's also a little older coming off a rookie deal.

I don't know if we offer him Gary Harris money but if we did he would take it and run imo

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Related topic, can the Jazz give Favors a fair extension and then trade him to a team he approves? The Jazz would get more in return that way.

 

[Hedda Gambler]

That depends on what you perceive of as fair. IIRC, the maximum we can offer him is 120% of his previous salary. I doubt that is enough even to get them to the table. We do have the option of renegotiating and extending him, but that ship sailed last season as we would need cap space to do that.

 

[Miggs]

Gary Harris just signed for 4yr/84mil with 74mil guaranteed (team and individual bonus clauses worth the remaining $10 million)

Definitely a comp that Hood's camp will use

I agree but Harris is a better defender, younger (I think), and much more efficient offensively.

I'd also add that money is drying up and not a ton of teams will be able to spend on outside fa's next summer.

We could offer him now but I think it could be prudent to let the season play out, see how Mitchell performs, and go from there.

Why offer Hood 4/75 now if Mitchell becomes an obvious starter at the 2? If no one wants to or really has the money to offer him that? Given his injury history? Yes, we have to worry about him blowing up but if that happens, it makes re-signing him (at a higher cost) that much more of an obvious move.