As part of the trade sending Malcolm Brogdon to Boston, new Pacers Nik Stauskas, Juwan Morgan, and Malik Fitts all received significant partial guarantees on their minimum-salary contracts for 2022/23.
Stauskas had $2,106,932 of his salary guaranteed, while Morgan received a partial guarantee of $1,728,689 and Fitts got $1,665,650, Hoops Rumors has learned. Each amount is exactly $86,988 below the player’s full salary.
When added to Daniel Theis‘ $8,694,369 salary and Aaron Nesmith‘s $3,804,360 salary, those partial guarantees total $18MM. That was precisely the amount the Celtics needed to send out to in order to legally match Brogdon’s incoming $22.6MM salary — Boston was able to take back up to 125% of that outgoing $18MM, plus $100K.
Here’s more from around the Central:
- Spencer Davies of BasketballNews.com spoke to a team source who is “quite confident” that Collin Sexton will remain with the Cavaliers going forward, either as a result of a new agreement between the two sides or the guard accepting his qualifying offer.
- Ricky Rubio‘s new three-year contract with the Cavaliers is fully guaranteed in the first two years and features a partial guarantee in year three, tweets Michael Scotto of HoopsHype. Rubio’s partial guarantee in 2024/25 is $4.25MM of a $6.44MM salary.
- Patrick Williams‘ potential for further growth will be crucial if the Bulls hope to increase their ceiling, according to Joe Cowley of The Chicago Sun-Times, who wonders if 2022 first-rounder Dalen Terry could help Williams realize his upside. As Cowley explains, Terry pushed Williams hard in Summer League practices and the two engaged in some competitive banter during those sessions.
How can the Bulls expect Patrick Williams to grow offensively when he only had 4-6 touches per game?
He needs to grow into an even better defender and be more aggressive when he gets his touches, he’s better at playmaking or crashing the lane off the dribble than he is at spot 3 pt shooting, also he played 5 games last year before a flagrant foul put him out for the year
I’ve heard three kid has a good disposition but I hope the Cavs don’t lowball Sexton just because they can. Cavs are in dire need of more offense (finished 25th out of 30 last year) and while he has his issues defensively, he’s worth the risk. Hopefully 3 7fters on the floor can mitigate that. But he’s a walking efficient bucket who can take a lot of the overworked Garland and they like each other. Something around a base of 2/$40, 3/$72 or 4/$68 sound fair. Or 5/$75 with reasonable incentives that have the potential to raise it to 5/$100 mil based on health and accolades. Most improved, all nba, all defensive, e.t.c. SG is the most logical position to improve the offense. Levert and Love still be about $55 mil off the books if they are allowed to walk. Osman would be another $9 mil. Plenty enough to extend Mobley.
It’s not lowballing when market value is on offer and nobody bites. There is no “fair value”.
Sexton missed a lot of time, so he needs a prove-it year, apparently. The QO does seem low tho. 1/$15, or whatever it is to stay under the line.
so you think 3/72 or 5/75….
Not sure he’ll play those extra two years for below league minimum…
Your typing must be horrendous cuz those offers are all over the place!
If the Cavs offered 2/40 he’d be all over it, but they don’t want to offer that much. That’s the $20 mil he wants, but your 3/72… Good lord, who ever thought he was worth $24 per year? Five for $75. He’s not signing that long of a deal for $15 per because he thinks he’s worth $20 or more. If its more years, it would have to be good money in his eyes.
Its probably going to be 2-3 years in length.
How do 3/72 and 4/68 both sound fair?
Stauskus, Morgan and Fitts are all so psyched. None of them were going to have their salary guaranteed.
Williams is a player. What’s the rush here. Don’t let your inept as a team. Blame Williams time table to grow. Kid is for real. He’s only played one yr. And at 20 yrs old we are expecting things. He should be a rotation guy learning and growing. He’ll get there.
Unfortunately the Bulls reluctance to draft or sign another PF to help the kid out throws extra weight on his shoulders. I get last year they had just made a ton of big moves and were just trying to get relevant again. What I don’t get is this year when they had every chance to get the kid some help and didn’t. Still hoping for some sort of move to come.