Myles Turner‘s new four-year contract with the Bucks came in a little higher than expected, as cap expert Yossi Gozlan notes (via Twitter).
Using the cap room left over after waiving and Damian Lillard and buying out Vasilije Micic (via the stretch provision), Milwaukee was able to give Turner a starting salary of $25,318,251. With annual 5% raises, his deal is worth a total of approximately $108.87MM. As previously reported, the contract also includes a fourth-year player option and a 15% trade kicker.
Here are a few more details on contracts officially signed around the NBA in recent days:
- Using Simone Fontecchio‘s outgoing salary ($8,307,692) and the expanded traded player exception ($8,527,000), the Pistons were able to take back a maximum of $16,834,692 in incoming salary. Not coincidentally, that’s exactly the starting salary that Duncan Robinson got on his new deal with Detroit via sign-and-trade (Twitter link via Gozlan). Robinson’s three-year deal has a declining structure and offers few guarantees after the first year — just $2MM of his $15.99MM salary in 2026/27 is guaranteed, and his entire $15.15MM salary for ’27/28 is non-guaranteed.
- Ajay Mitchell‘s new three-year deal with the Thunder came in a little lower than expected, at $8.7MM, tweets Michael Scotto of HoopsHype. It includes a fully guaranteed $3MM salary for 2025/26, replacing the team option Oklahoma City turned down that was worth the same amount. His $2.85MM salary for ’26/27 is partially guaranteed for $1.5MM, while ’27/28 is a $2.85MM team option.
- Reported to be worth $62MM over four years, Nickeil Alexander-Walker‘s new contract with the Hawks came in at $60,647,200, Hoops Rumors has confirmed. It includes a fourth-year player option and a 7.5% trade kicker. It also declines in year two (from $15,161,800 to $14,403,710) before ascending again in year three ($15,161,800) and four ($15,919,890).
- The three-year deal between Kyrie Irving and the Mavericks is worth $118,473,846, with a third-year player option and a 15% trade kicker, Hoops Rumors has confirmed. It starts at $36,566,002, with annual 8% raises.
- Tre Jones‘ three-year, $24MM contract with the Bulls has a flat structure, with annual cap hits of $8MM, and a third-year team option, Hoops Rumors has confirmed.
Not that we needed further confirmation, but the NAW tidbit shows the Hawks know what they’re doing
Do you have any information on how the heat structured this s&t? Depending on how they receive Fontecchio they can create a large tpe
My assumption is that they took Fontecchio into their previous Jimmy Butler TPE and created a new TPE for Robinson’s full salary, since that new TPE would be a little bigger than the Butler one and would expire later. Haven’t officially confirmed that yet though.
Quite ironic that Nico thought it was too risky to pay Luka $70M a year, yet they are going to end up paying Kyrie $76M a year.
Kyrie is not playing this coming season. He got his surgery done essentially at the beginning of April and at 34 yo with lots of prior leg injuries he will take more than 12 months to recover. And his third year is player option.
So, $76M/yr for a 34 yo 6’1 guard, who depends on quickness, coming off of an ACL injury, but not to a generational talent, one of the three or five best players in the NBA at his prime.
All that a money for a center who struggled to consistently get 10 points and at least 7 rebounds in the NBA Finals. 😂