NOVEMBER 24: The Jazz have officially signed Mitchell to his new five-year extension, per the NBA’s transactions log. According to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link), the deal features a 15% trade kicker.
NOVEMBER 22: Jazz star Donovan Mitchell will sign a maximum rookie scale extension, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal will cover five seasons, starting in 2021/22, and will include a fifth-year player option for the ’25/26 season, reports ESPN’s Bobby Marks (via Twitter).
Mitchell will be guaranteed 25% of the salary cap, which would make the total value of the deal around $163MM over five years. That figure could rise to 30% if he meets All-NBA criteria for the upcoming season, which would put the contract in the neighborhood of $195MM. Those projections rely on an annual 3% increase in the cap, so the actual value could vary.
Mitchell will earn about $5.2MM in 2020/21, the last year of his rookie contract, before the extension officially begins a year from now.
The 13th overall pick in the 2017 draft, Mitchell has become a star in Utah during his three NBA seasons and is coming off his first All-Star appearance. He averaged a career-best 24.0 points per game last season and followed that with a historic playoff performance, scoring 36.3 PPG in the seven-game loss to the Nuggets.
He has improved his averages in several key statistical categories – including points and assists per game, as well as three-point percentage – in each of his three professional seasons and is still just 24 years old.
Utah has gotten most of its offseason business out of the way during the first 48 hours of the free agency period, having agreed to re-sign Jordan Clarkson and reaching a deal to bring back Derrick Favors using their mid-level exception.
Having locked up Mitchell, the Jazz are expected to focus on a new contract for center Rudy Gobert, who is also eligible for an extension. Gobert will reach unrestricted free agency in 2021 if the two sides don’t agree to a new deal before then.
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That’s a lot but he’s worth it
Knicks fans punching air right now
Why …. enlighten us
They drafted Frankie Smokes over him. Lol
Frankie!!!! He will pan out. He just requires the kind of development that actually competent and well ran franchises are capable of.
I really don’t know what anyone would expect from a foreign player playing in the biggest market ever buried behind old and trash players and having to adjust to a different coach and GM every season. And he was only 19. Give him continuity and show confidence in him along with a longer leash and see him blossom
Good for small markets!!
As a Knick fan we already knew that he will sign an extension with Utah . It very rare any team can sign another team star who was in their rookie contract. Now any team can trade for him if things don’t pan out during this contract. he is a great player but he is not the kind of SG I would prefer. I prefer more of a Ray Allen SG.
I hear you but at 6-1 he’s more of a scoring 1. He’s strong enough and physical enough and athletic enough to play the two but I don’t know if you would consider him a pure 2.
6’3** I see the height point but I think with his build and strength he makes up for those couple inches more you would typically see at the 2 slot
Dxit 90 “ not the kind of SG you would prefer”. Hahaha. Like you or the Knicks have a choice. NOBODY is going to that DUMPSTER FIRE Knicks team. They better take whatever they could get. The Knicks AREN’T a destination team. No free agent or player is out there salivating over playing the Knicks.
He don’t know squat about Knicks. He’s a Muchi
We already have a SG. One who will be better
I see RJ Barrett more of a SF than SG
No man. There is nothing small forwardish about him. Exploit his gifts at the 2. Allow him to playmake and exploit his left hand like Harden did. He shows an amazing ability to get to the line already and it will only go up as he becomes a star in the league. Obviously he needs to improve his shooting but I think he will…
As a Knicks fan you prefer? Lol.
Alright, we’ll happily keep him and make the playoffs while you look for “another” Ray Allen. Good luck with that.
Yet again media & fans kept believing some big name come to NY city.
Yet again failure.
Dude, you do realize they could still pull it off by trade. Don’t think anyone thought the Knicks were going to get a big-time free agent this season if you are a fan of the team your hope was a trade.
Wow 25% of the total team cap. For a small Market team that does not go into luxury-tax territory, how you going to fill out the rest of your roster?
I knew he would stay in Utah I blame NY for taking Frank over Mitchell or Monk in the draft
They are currently $2 million over the cap right now I believe.
Mike Conley’s giant contract comes off the books after next season as well.
Let’s see. PG Conley, SF Bogdonovic, PF Favors, C Gobert, Bench: Clarkson, Ingles, O’Neal, Oh my. Bunch of role players and youth after that but that’s 7 solid players many teams would take in a second. True, we do need supplemental talent in the event of injury but that’s not a bad roster that surrounds him. If we’re relatively healthy we are a top 4 team in the West. Good luck scoring when Gobert and Favors are on the floor together. We were #1 defense two years ago when they were both Jazzmen.
SPIDA!!!!
40 mil Mitch
Good for him. He earned it
I’m “jazzed” about this. No pun intended
Still didn’t win Rookie of the Year! Seriously, I love Spida. Fun to watch.
In other news. Raise your hand if you think Bam is worth 39 mil per.