11-17-2023, 11:27 PM
(11-16-2023, 10:36 AM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: TLDR - don't get too cozy with DJJ. He's clearly Brunson 2.0. Kudos to the MBT (probably Kidd - blech! - most of all, tbqh) for recognizing the player he could be. Too bad they couldn't sign him to something more team-favorable.
I’ve mentioned before that absent a cost cutting trade, we’ll have the TP-MLE as the most likely way to retain him. Will that be enough? It is $5.25mm if I remember correctly. One thing on our side, 9 teams project to be over the second apron right now. So, almost 1/3 of the league won’t be in position to do even the TP-MLE.
One thing I hope we don’t do is later re-write history in such a way that the one year deal is somehow a failing on the part of Nico. DJJ was making $9mm a year not that long ago. Even his last contract with Chicago was above the minimum. So, there was no real advantage to him signing a multi-year at the Vet Min. A one year was absolutely the right move for him.