![]() There’s still Bradley Beal, if he decides he wants to opt out of the $37.3 million he’s owed in ’22-23 in pursuit of a longer-term deal, whether with the Wizards or another suitor. ![]() Locking up all that talent wouldn’t leave the market barren, per se. ![]() Two more, James Harden and Kyrie Irving, are expected to join teammate Durant in inking new max deals that will cement Brooklyn as both next season’s odds-on title favorite and the most expensive contender the NBA has ever seen. At or near the top of the list: The 2022 free agent class is shaping up to be an absolute yikes festival.Ī slew of names that would’ve headlined 2022 free agency-Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, Kawhi Leonard, and Jimmy Butler on the unrestricted/player option side Luka Doncic, Trae Young, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander among restricted types-have already agreed to extensions this summer. The Hornets threw every dollar they could at Rozier now-four additional seasons, starting at 120 percent of his 2021-22 salary with an 8 percent raise after the first season, the most lucrative possible extension they were able to offer him under the collective bargaining agreement-for a few reasons. Of course, contracts aren’t handed out in a vacuum. ![]() (Just 3 million away!) At first blush, the notion that Rozier-neither Charlotte’s best all-around player (Gordon Hayward) nor its top guard (LaMelo Ball), and a vet at the same position where it just spent a lottery pick (James Bouknight)-is a $100 million player seems kind of difficult to square. You’d be forgiven if your response to Thursday’s report that Terry Rozier had agreed to a four-year, $97 million contract extension with the Hornets sounded something like, “Wait, what?!?!?” After all, 97 is very close to 100. ![]()
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