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How Much $$$ Should Jazz Throw at Austin Reaves?

NUMBERICA said:
That's incumbent team's scale. Ours would be $24.5 million per year flat on a max Early Bird offer. If the Lakers matched their cap hits would be ~MLE, ~MLE, ~$38 million, ~$38 million.

Maybe you're already saying that, it's not clear to me.

$24.5 million if he can weather scouting is a good deal IMO. Yes, there are contingencies, but it will be hard to improve after this offseason IMO, so they gotta take some swings.
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Make the offer on day one and force them to match early on in the process. There’s not really any other free agents that I’m super interested in. Naz Reid, Yuta Watanabe and Troy Brown are about it. Naz might go first day, but those other two will probably take a bit of time. If the Lakers match, use the cap space to take on somebody’s bad salary and more assets for that big move to make down the road.
 
NUMBERICA said:
That's the incumbent team's scale. Ours would be $24.5 million per year flat on a max Early Bird offer. If the Lakers matched their cap hits would be ~MLE, ~MLE, ~$38 million, ~$38 million.

Maybe you're already saying that, it's not clear to me.

$24.5 million if he can weather scouting is a good deal IMO. Yes, there are contingencies, but it will be hard to improve after this offseason IMO, so they gotta take some swings. Also, for whatever it is worth, I would not make that offer if the Jazz had to pay him ~$38 million in any season.
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That is what I’m saying but you broke it down better.
 
I was thinking I could make a point about the risk of giving big money to an undrafted player, thinking about Duncan Robinson, but looking at the list in the link below there aren't a lot of horrible contracts to these guys. It's also interesting how many of the top undrafted guys got their start in Utah.

www.spotrac.com

2023 NBA Rankings

Listing the top salaries, cap hits, cash, earnings, contracts, and bonuses, for all active NBA players.
www.spotrac.com www.spotrac.com
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I was thinking I could make a point about the risk of giving big money to an undrafted player, thinking about Duncan Robinson, but looking at the list in the link below there aren't a lot of horrible contracts to these guys. It's also interesting how many of the top undrafted guys got their start in Utah.

www.spotrac.com

2023 NBA Rankings

Listing the top salaries, cap hits, cash, earnings, contracts, and bonuses, for all active NBA players.
www.spotrac.com www.spotrac.com
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Looking at that list, the Jazz should’ve had both Danuel House and Alex Caruso get their starts here as well. DL had both of them in for the annual street free agent workout back in 2017.

“This year's camp invitees include: Quincy Ford; Devondrick Walker; RJ Hunter; Aaron Harrison; Isaiah Cousins; Danuel House; Darius Morris; Jalen Jones; Alex Caruso; Alfonzo McKinnie; Marquis Teague; Isaiah Miles; Nate Sobey; Jaleel Roberts; Cleanthony Early; Jarnell Stokes; Mitchell Creek; Alec Brown; Eric Griffin; Shayne Whittington; Lamar Patterson; Damien Inglis; Michael Qualls; Tyler Hansbrough; and Elgin Cook.”
 
Also, looking at that list, it’s kind of crazy to me that Seth Curry has been on 10 different teams in his career. That was quite a bit more movement than I was expecting for him.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Alright, how are we feeling after he led the Lakers in +/- (by more than double the next player) and scored 28 points on 13 shots with 6 assists?

I'm kind of obsessed with getting him here.
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He’s good… he’s 10% less good once that LA whistle disappears doe.
 
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