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Depending on his development this could be a benchmark for Green's next contract. Hart averaged 10/7/4 last season. Good defender. Solid shooter.

If Green is willing to extend his contract the Mavs should just do it. Don´t need a repeat of the Brunson drama.

If you look past the surface numbers, Hart is on a much different level than Green, and has been since he got out of NO. The issue I see with Green is that while he's active, he's not highly productive. What little he does while on the floor is good, but the quantity (per-36) is not.

As a result, his PER (which measures total production) has always been well below NBA average. This past year was 11.2, while Hart was at 17.1 in NY. That number pulls in the overlooked stats, and Hart is better in just about every one of them (and in some of them, such as rebounding, very much better).

I don't see how the Mavs can offer more than MLE-ish (or slightly more) to Green in an extension, which with raises should give him something like 4 yrs $58M (plus or minus $3M), which I think would start in the 13-14M range. If you assume he will have a significant jump this coming year, you can justify more, but we hoped for that last year and in total did NOT see it. Its not smart to assume it again. His efficiency went up somewhat, but his production on a per-36 basis only increased by less than 1 basket a game (he shot the same low number of shots, but made one more), and in every other category (rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers) he was worse per-36.