The new minimum-salary contracts signed by R.J. Hampton with the Pistons and PJ Dozier with the Kings are both two-year deals that are fully guaranteed for the rest of this season but don’t include any guaranteed money in year two, reports Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter links).
The agreements will allow the Pistons and Kings to assess their new players’ fits for the rest of this season before making a decision in the summer on whether or not to retain them for another season.
Hampton’s 2023/24 salary with the Pistons (approximately $2MM) would become fully guaranteed if he remains under contract through July 6, Hoops Rumors has learned. As for Dozier, he’d have to be waived by July 10 if the Kings want to avoid his full $2.4MM salary for next season becoming guaranteed.
Here are a few more details on some of the contracts recently signed by NBA players:
- Jordan Goodwin‘s new three-year deal with the Wizards includes a $900K rest-of-season salary for 2022/23, which the team gave him using a portion of its mid-level exception, per Keith Smith of Spotrac (Twitter link). Goodwin’s second-year salary in 2023/24 is currently partially guaranteed for $300K. That guarantee would increase to $963,948 (50% of his total salary) if he remains under contract through September 1, Hoops Rumors has learned. The Wizards hold a minimum-salary team option on Goodwin for 2024/25.
- The Hornets‘ mid-level exception allowed them to give four years to Bryce McGowens on his new standard contract. It also let the team pay him a salary higher than the minimum for the rest of this season — he’ll earn $1,075,000 on his new deal in 2022/23, according to Smith (Twitter link). McGowens’ remaining three years are worth the minimum, but his $1.72MM salary for ’23/24 is fully guaranteed. The final two years are non-guaranteed, including a ’25/26 team option.
- The Suns used a portion of their taxpayer mid-level exception to give Ish Wainright a slightly larger salary than he would have received on a minimum-salary contract, tweets Smith. Wainright will earn $474,851 for the rest of this season instead of the $423,612 he would’ve gotten on a minimum deal. As previously reported, the second year of Wainright’s contract is a team option.
Doesn’t a team option have to reflect the guarantee nature of its preceding year? Meaning in Goodwin’s deal, the ‘24-‘25 year in deal, if a true ‘team option’ needs to be guaranteed slightly more than $300k itself with the same day-of-year guaranteed date?
Yeah, that option is guaranteed for $325,590 and has the same partial guarantee terms (increases to a 50% guarantee after Sept. 1).
Anyone else see Michael Scotto and just think of Michael Scott? Cuz I do hehe
Dozier is a solid player if he can regain his form pre-injury. The Kings can use a guy like him backing up Fox. They just need to work on their defense, Dozier helps (if healthy), and the Kings are a legitimate threat, though I’m not sure they can hold their current position in the West this season. Definitely a playoff team, but I can see them slipping to 7th or 8th over the next month or so.