EXTENSION: Gobert signs 5yr/$205M w/ UTA | DAL "significant interest" if available

[SleepingHero]

Gobert has been a much better and much more impactful player than KP and it is not even close. Gobert got the contract he deserves as a top 10 player in the NBA.

KP at 34 mil vs Gobert at 42 mil is not even close. 

I'm not even getting into who's a more impactful player. Gobert is limited. The skills that makes Gobert great (and I do mean great), are all things a good team needs to be good, but great paint protection, amazing screen setting, and a fantastic lob threat isn't going to be the main engine for a championship team. Thus this is a severe overpay. Gobert is now being paid in the same tier as Steph Curry, Lebron, Giannis, Harden, etc. He is not that. He will never be that. You're to not going to win a championship with Gobert being your 1st option, and it's suspect that you can win a ring with him being your 2nd best player. 

To pay 40+ mil for a guy like that is idiotic. I understand why the Jazz did it, but we shouldn't pretend that the Jazz are making out good here. This caps their team for the next 5 years.

And by the way, I'm not even arguing that KP is a better player or a more impactful player. But the fact that it can be debated as to who IS the better player and 1 is being paid on average 10 mil less than the other every year is what I'm trying to say. From a value proposition, KP is who you'd rather want on your team. He's a more skilled offensive player than Gobert, his paint protection is in the upper echelon, and he won't cost you close to 50 mil in his final year of his deal. 

KP's biggest issue is availability. But any player can get injured. God forbid Gobert get injured, because the Jazz would be locked in a French prison for 5 years that they can't escape.