4:58pm: The Mavericks have officially announced Green’s extension (Twitter link).
2:44pm: The Mavericks are finalizing a three-year, $41MM rookie scale extension with Josh Green, sources tell Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the deal is agreed upon (Twitter link).
A 6’5″ wing who hails from Sydney, Australia, Green was the 18th overall pick of the 2020 draft after one college season at Arizona. His both his production and efficiency have improved over the course of his three NBA seasons.
As a rookie in ’20/21, Green only appeared in 39 games for an average of 11.4 MPG, and wasn’t very effective when he did play, posting a .452/.160/.565 shooting slash line. He started to turn the corner in ’21/22, playing 67 games (15.5 MPG) while averaging 4.8 PPG and 2.4 RPG on .508/.359/.689 shooting.
Last season, the 22-year-old emerged as a valuable rotation regular, averaging 9.1 PPG and 3.0 on .537/.402/.723 shooting in 60 games (21 starts, 25.7 MPG). According to ESPN’s Bobby Marks (Twitter link), Green was one of only five players to convert at least 60% of his twos and 40% of his threes in ’22/23 (minimum of 100 attempts for each shot type).
Reports throughout the offseason indicated that Dallas and Green had mutual interest in getting a deal done. Assuming the extension is fully guaranteed, he’ll earn an average of $14MM from 2024-26. Green will make $4.77M in ’23/24, the final season of his rookie contract.
Green is now the 13th player to agree to a rookie scale extension this offseason, breaking the record of 11 that was set and then tied over the past two campaigns.
The full list of rookie scale extension recipients can be viewed right here, while the remaining candidates are listed here.
Good value for the Mavs here, and easily like this the most amongst all the deals signed recently. Based on those, I thought he could get a more like 45-48MM since he has higher upside than those other players.
Another overpay. All the past players must be so mad. Josh Green will probably make more money than Patrick Ewing after his career is done. Another overpay. Summer of Mozgov and Deng all over again
That was free agency, these are extensions and both couldn’t be any more different if you understand the backdrop
Will Perdue made 5.3 million one season. The most Kareem made in one season was 3 million. Are you aware of what inflation is and how much more money the league generates than in the past?
So worth it! Green will have a breakout year this year.
Hot take here but Mavs would be better off trading Kyrie and THJ and filling out the rotation and promoting guys like Green into starters roles, if they actually want to eventually win.
There’s a 0.01% chance the Mavs win a championship this season. There’s just not enough pieces to the puzzle. Kyries going to only get older and eventually fall off, and the young guys aren’t on the same timeline in order for them to be successful.
Although Josh Green only put up little numbers I think if he was a full time starter at SG next to Luka he would thrive. He’s solid defensively, he’s a high IQ player and he can space the floor. Grant Williams again, smart, good defensively and can space the floor. Derek Lively is a good project. Jaden Hardy is perfect for the spark plug sixth man role. Keep building off that time line.
Your going to need a clear second star but have him fit that time line and be a good fit with what you have.
For example I’d love have seen them get DeAndre Hunter and Clint Capela. Clint gives them a solid lockdown the paint centre that protects the rim. Hunter slots in at SF and is another solid 3 and D to go with Josh and Grant.
Obviously ATL won’t want Kyrie since they already have Trae and DeJounte, so you’d need a third team but I’m sure you’d have plenty of teams interested. Looks as if the Hawks have been wanting to move Okungwu into the starting centre role for a while now anyways.
Mavs would look so much more organised and with a plan if they ran out
Luka Green Hunter Williams Capela
Curry Hardy … Kleber Lively
This is a steal, in my opinion, but maybe I’m wrong, and they continue to refuse to play him in situations that make even less sense not to