JULY 9: The signing is official, according to a team press release.
“DJ is someone we want to continue to build with. He’s a dynamic talent with the heart of a leader. He leads by example, is an unselfish teammate, and truly cares about winning,” Hawks GM Landry Fields said.
JULY 7: Murray’s deal will include a fourth-year player option, per Shams Charania of The Athletic.
JULY 6: The Hawks and Dejounte Murray are finalizing an agreement on a four-year contract extension, league sources tell Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report and TNT (Twitter link).
Murray, who is on an expiring contract, will earn a base salary of approximately $17.7MM in 2023/24, with $500K in likely incentives and another $1MM in unlikely incentives. The NBA’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement allows a first-year raise of up to 140% of the player’s previous salary in the first year of an extension, and it sounds like Murray will receive that maximum raise.
Based on a 40% first-year increase, Murray’s new deal would have a base value of approximately $111MM, with nearly $10MM in additional incentives. If he achieves all his bonuses, the four-year contract would max out at around $120.5MM.
There was a sense that Murray might wait until he reached unrestricted free agency in 2024 to sign a new deal, since he’ll be eligible for a far bigger payday at that time. The fact that he’s willing to lock in an extra four years now is a big win for the Hawks, who gave up three first-round picks (two unprotected) and a pick swap to acquire the guard from the Spurs last offseason.
Reports at the time of the trade suggested that San Antonio was concerned about its ability to extend Murray prior to free agency. Jake Fischer of Yahoo Sports indicated on Wednesday that the Hawks were increasingly optimistic about their own chances of working out a new deal.
In his first year in Atlanta, Murray averaged 20.5 points, 6.1 assists, and 5.3 rebounds in 36.4 minutes per game across 74 contests. He shot a career-best 46.4% from the field, including 34.4% on three-pointers, and provided his usual solid perimeter defense alongside Trae Young in the Hawks’ backcourt.
There were rumors earlier in the offseason that the Hawks were willing to discuss trading anyone except Young, but a new extension for Murray will officially take him off the trade market for the rest of 2023. Never considered a legitimate candidate to be moved this summer, the 26-year-old will become ineligible to be dealt for six months once he signs his new extension.
I wonder if they still want to trade hunter and capela?
Possibly but the good thing is they bought a ton of time if so ( approx 365 days )
Capela should be able to be moved nominally this time next year if they wanna/ need to free up room For their own rfas
He gave the Hawks a hell of a bargain.
Dirt cheap. Can’t see that deal going bad for Atlanta at all.
He ain’t that good. They suffer from the same problem as Dallas. A pair of high-profile backcourt guys as your franchise players. However, both are high-volume, low-percentage shooter’s from behind the arc.
Yes, they want to trade Hunter and Capela. DeAndre Hunter’s knee’s have about 1 year left if that. Capela gets older every day and still can’t shoot.
Seems like he’s jumping the gun here… but I guess guaranteed money is better than an injury or fall off in play and being Oladipo. But I think he would have gotten a lot more on the market.
Starting to see the effects of the 2nd apron. Guys with smart agents know that it’s better to start taking money now before the All-NBA guys are the only players making big $$$. That’s why there was a record number of players opting in and signing extensions.
Lol what? Why would he do this deal. Literally costing himself 50-100 million dollars.
Maybe he looked at dudes like Dennis Schroeder and Nerlens Noel and decided to get that bag now. He’ll also still only be 30 years old when he can be a free agent again.
Maybe his Significant Other said, “I love Atlanta. Don’t screw this up. You can go play somewhere else if you want, but I’ll stay here with the kids.”
Starting to see the effects of the 2nd apron. Guys with smart agents know that it’s better to start taking money now before the All-NBA guys are the only players making big $$$. That’s why there was a record number of players opting in and signing extensions.
Regardless of what you may think of the fit or the player, that’s a good price.
Wait. FVV and Poole are going to make more than Dejounte???
I can’t comprehend how this guy only got at most 120mm over 4 years and vanvleet got about 10mm more than that in 1 less year.
New CBA likely helped. Good for ATL. Not so much for the league as a whole. Guys in his spot (contract below market) were the only guys who had even a chance to make it UFA. Oh well, there’s always Harden. After this and the Collins trade, ATL’s financials look stablized going forward.
Got to assume there is a player option on year four. Pretty big value deal, unless Murray knows something about his health others don’t.
Atlanta will use him as a chip to trade when the time comes. They can’t help but chase their tail looking for the right answer and the right answer is always running away from them.
Dammm that’s a bargain compared to what dudes getting these days.
20-5-5 with top tier defence at about 25mil a season that’s a great bit of business by Atlanta.
To bad they didn’t make any other good deals and will continue to just be average unless something drastic happens. Would love to see a Trae for Pascal deal go through
Atlanta would be a whole different team then
It is a very good deal for the hawks, relative to the price of other players.
For once, I am glad that comments understand this
Super bargain…
Good signing. Hawks will go into the season with this roster.
Not a team in the league that would take Dame’s next 4 years over Murray’s yet Dame will make a lot more. Players should think twice before letting stars take over the players associati9n during the next round of negotiations
Now they should trade Trae and they will have something
Security ala Isaiah Thomas, Dennis Shrodder, Nerlens Noel.
I really like this backcourt. Always thought it was a great pairing. But honestly I don’t really watch the Hawks. So I can’t speak to their issues. But it seems they are going backwards to me. All the players they were touting a few yrs ago. Are now gone or rumored to be traded ……. Hunter and Capela are next ????
The Hawks need to find a sucker for Trae…
Murray is a great lead guard to build around and find stars to fit on the team…
With Trae there’s a one dimensional element to what can be done…
Absolutely could not agree more, though the offensive philosophy for the last couple of years has hurt Trae and the team a bit.
The high pick and roll worked perfect with Collins and Trae because Collins could knock down jumpers (only when he doesn’t have to create his own look) and drive and dunk. They brought in Capela and swapped him in for Collins and his lack of threat from the outside hurt that dynamic so much they slowly went away from it. I know Collins had some injuries that played into it, but Capela was not as good a fit for that scheme (and I usually talk down about Collins).
Yeah it was a very clunky fit on offence…
But at least on that side of the ball the GM has options on what they can do…
Defensively, well there’s a huge reason they went for Capela…
I love this deal. I really like the way Murray plays the game and carries himself on the court. There is no pouting, no tantrums, and very little taunting. He makes a great play, maybes gives a quick glance, then hustles down the court.
Good for Murray to secure his future, and good for the Hawks. Now, let’s see if Snyder can make this work.
I don’t understand this at all. Already signed a long term deal and has made close to 80 mil in career earnings before his current deal expires.
I think he would have gotten at least close to a max deal on the open market next summer as a plus defender and 20+ ppg.
Maybe he’s just giving em a discount to sign other guys lol
G0dd d4mnn…i like him more than zach and he can play defense. Cheap cheap cheap…