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BREAKING: The Memphis Grizzlies and All-Star Jaren Jackson Jr. are expected to agree on a five-year, $240 million maximum renegotiation-and-extension, sources tell ESPN. Head of CAA Basketball Austin Brown and CAA agent Max Saidman negotiated the new agreement with the Grizzlies.

kekgeek wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:18 pm BREAKING: The Memphis Grizzlies and All-Star Jaren Jackson Jr. are expected to agree on a five-year, $240 million maximum renegotiation-and-extension, sources tell ESPN. Head of CAA Basketball Austin Brown and CAA agent Max Saidman negotiated the new agreement with the Grizzlies.

Hmm. That’s $240M for an allstar but not superstar. I’d say $120M is reasonable for Naz.

Restricted free agent Santi Aldama has agreed to a three-year, $52.5 million deal to return to the Memphis Grizzlies, sources tell ESPN. CAA’s Austin Brown, Steven Heumann and Max Sadiman finalized the deal with the Grizzlies for Aldama, who had a career year last season.

Lipoli390 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:23 pm

kekgeek wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:18 pm BREAKING: The Memphis Grizzlies and All-Star Jaren Jackson Jr. are expected to agree on a five-year, $240 million maximum renegotiation-and-extension, sources tell ESPN. Head of CAA Basketball Austin Brown and CAA agent Max Saidman negotiated the new agreement with the Grizzlies.

Hmm. That’s $240M for an allstar but not superstar. I’d say $120M is reasonable for Naz.

Counter point. Adalma who in my opinion is comparable to Naz for significantly less

Sources confirm to ESPN that the salary cap in 2026-27 is projected to increase 7%.

The maximum allowed is 10%.

-GMs thought a 10% increase was coming

Free agent forward Dorian Finney-Smith has agreed to a four-year, $53 million deal with the Houston Rockets, sources tell ESPN. Finney-Smith's agent, Michael Tellem of Excel Sports, negotiated terms of the deal tonight with Rockets executives for the 3-and-D wing.

Free agent C/F Paul Reed – aka BBall Paul – has agreed to a two-year, $11 million deal to return to the Detroit Pistons, sources tell ESPN. Reed played a versatile role for Pistons frontcourt, and the team and his agent Ron Shade of Octagon reached the new contract tonight.

kekgeek wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:29 pm Sources confirm to ESPN that the salary cap in 2026-27 is projected to increase 7%.

The maximum allowed is 10%.

-GMs thought a 10% increase was coming

Interesting. Teams will have to factor that in when negotiating multi-year contracts. The Wolves will have to be particularly careful given how precariously close to the 2nd apron they’ve going to be this upcoming season.

kekgeek wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:27 pm

Lipoli390 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:23 pm

kekgeek wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:18 pm BREAKING: The Memphis Grizzlies and All-Star Jaren Jackson Jr. are expected to agree on a five-year, $240 million maximum renegotiation-and-extension, sources tell ESPN. Head of CAA Basketball Austin Brown and CAA agent Max Saidman negotiated the new agreement with the Grizzlies.

Hmm. That’s $240M for an allstar but not superstar. I’d say $120M is reasonable for Naz.

Counter point. Adalma who in my opinion is comparable to Naz for significantly less

Not a bad counterpoint, but not persuasive to me. I’ll just come back to the market. TC had to know that other teams were poised to offer Naz something in the neighborhood of what he gave Naz. So whatever you and I think of Naz v Aldama, it’s the market that sets a player’s contract value. If I’m wrong and TC just offered Naz the $125M contract without any basis in what he knew others were offering or poised to offer, then he’s a terrible PBO.

Lipoli390 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:42 pm

kekgeek wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:27 pm

Lipoli390 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:23 pm

Hmm. That’s $240M for an allstar but not superstar. I’d say $120M is reasonable for Naz.

Counter point. Adalma who in my opinion is comparable to Naz for significantly less

Not a bad counterpoint, but not persuasive to me. I’ll just come back to the market. TC had to know that other teams were poised to offer Naz something in the neighborhood of what he gave Naz. So whatever you and I think of Naz v Aldama, it’s the market that sets a player’s contract value. If I’m wrong and TC just offered Naz the $125M contract without any basis in what he knew others were offering or poised to offer, then he’s a terrible PBO.

I've always like Aldama and thought he had a nice skillset. Before this year he wasn't a volume scorer more of an efficient role player offensively. This year he stepped up his volume scoring and increased his passible 3 point shooting overall to pretty good. Naz Reid has years of being a high volume scorer in a more limited role and is a much more proven 3 point shooter. His worst Aldama is still making an average of 17 million per year that's not exactly cheap. What if his 3 point shooting drops off a bit? Aldama has sole nice assist numbers though.

In addition Memphis gave him a 5.9 million qualifying offer so he was a RFA coming off a rookie deal. Even if he and Naz had the same value being a RFA typically lowers what players get in FA.