After this most recent stretch, if Grant gets to $20M a year I will have to question the sanity and competence of whatever team is giving him that contract. For most of the past few months he has been abysmal. Like this guy doesn’t belong on an NBA court bad
JB is tradeable at either price and am unsure the difference in salary would matter
edit: bad math, but supermax with rising cap still good for team to offer
My read of the extension rules is that having signed a 4-year extension in Oct 2019 covering the 20-21 through 23-24 seasons, he was eligible to sign a Veteran Extension as of the third anniversary of signing (so, last October), although since the season is in-flight he now has to wait until June 30th to sign an extension. So, we have an exclusive ability to negotiate an extension with him starting this 6/30/2023 and ending when his contract ends on 6/30/2024, which can be for up to 4 years. He will have 8 years of service when he completes the current contract, so the first year of an extension would be his 9th service year, meaning he's eligible for the 30% max right now in an extension.
Without all-nba, his extension was limited to 120% of his salary which was not enough to max him this offseason (under the old system). The new CBA allows for 140% increase which will get him in the ballpark of the max.
According to Forsberg (https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/celtics/what-does-nbas-new-cba-mean-jaylen-brown-celtics), because JB's salary for final year is $30.7M, under new CBA (140% raise), Cs could only offer 4/$190M (approximately) extension. That's compared to the super-max deal of 5/$290M.
Score The Ball has always been such a powerful and direct instruction. First time I heard it I was 8-years old and it resonated. Shooting is to shoot the ball, Scoring is a specific purpose.
I trust Hauser's shooting more than anyone on the team.
Unless prime Lou Hudson and Walt Hazzard are suiting up, does it matter what happened 51 years ago?
The start to that postseason run in 2018 was heart attack-inducing. The Hawks would not go away.
Lmao, you took the words right out of my mouth. This is my same Finals pick….I am really starting to question it now
Just tell yourself that he is wrong about the Nuggets coming out of the West. The rest of it is fine.
What does Tatum have to do to be placed with the league’s superduperstars, where KD never won anything without three HoFers around him, and Embiid and Jokic haven’t ascended the playoff heights that JT has.
Hollinger linked to Seth Partnow's latest "Pre-Post Season Player Tiers" when he made that "superduperstar" comment. And in that article, Seth explains his reasoning, so I'll paste it below.
Conveniently says that a narrative has developed that the Finals weren't close, but also ignores the fact that Tatum was playing with an injured shoulder. He's not wrong that Tatum didn't play well with a title on the line. But there was more to it.
pretty cogent summation of Cs vs Bucks
Steph went through a similar thing. People acted like he choked in the 2016 Finals, when in reality he was playing hurt.
24, fractured left wrist/shoulder, massive playoff minutes, & intense 2nd half of the season push gets lost in the National NBA media Tatum narrative
Steph's path to the finals last year was as easy as could ever be hoped for - Ja missed half the Memphis series, and Denver and Dallas were one man teams with on one else close to all-star level other than Luka/Jokic. He earned every inch of it in the finals, but Boston's path to the finals was just as hard as GS' was easy, and it showed as that series went on. Like just about every champion (especially first time), Tatum and Boston will need some luck along the way.
He also got to the finals, which is more than we can say about Embiid, ever. I think it's absolutely insane that anyone would take Embiid over Tatum----Embiid plays a lot less, he plays worse when it matters, and he has a vastly more worrisome physical history and aging profile. Tatum didn't deliver in the finals last year---but has in many playoff series and games. Embiid has a vastly inferior track record.
This.
I think he's proven he is a winning player. Unsure if he has proven he's a championship player. That may have been what you meant.
I may have to end up eating my words on this but Embiid really doesn’t scare me much at all. I think he’s a fantastic player but, IMO, he tends to make incredibly stupid plays and decisions late in games. Part of it is because he’s always trying to grift the refs and exaggerate contact; part of it is he’s not great at reading and reacting to double teams.
Yes---I mean, he's not an empty-calories scorer or anything like that. But every playoff series of his I've watched he is a) unable to compete for 40 minutes for 5-6-7 straight games conditioning-wise and b) loses focus multiple times in a visible way. He can be, for bursts, the most dominant player in the game...but he hasn't shown he can do that when it matters in the NBA, which is (and I agree with Partnow on this) about May-June not about regular season.
I guess I think of "winning player" as "good in the playoffs too, even if not winning a title."
Agreed I don't want to go there.
I’m not too sure that “When the boat goes down” is a good metaphor for this montage. It implies a certain inevitable poor outcome that I would rather not see.
Tatum needs to lead his team to a finals win, or, at least, if the problem is with the rest of the team, he needs to play well in a finals series.
Rating Embiid above Tatum, at this point, is ludicrous. Yes, he's a better generator of stats. Wake me up when when his team advances beyond round 2.
I honestly feel bad for Tatum that he didn't do a better job at sprinkling his shitty games across the schedule a little better.
Tatum has always struggled with the Warriors quickness and speed but yeah if it’s not “choking” it was he was “gassed.” I don’t place much weight on either lazy argument based on what we know occurred in those playoffs.
I went to most of the home playoff games last year and noticed after his first drive to the basket/contact of each game, he would grimace painfully and hold his arm/shoulder. Really dumb analogy, but I am sure an mri would reveal my shoulder is made of Swiss cheese. Whenever I play disc golf, my first big huck is torture. Subsequent throws get easier but it never feels good. I think he felt off and at least subconsciously was hesitant to initiate contact.
Much the same way that it doesn't make Giannis a choker when we have a good system to limit his production. Sometimes teams are just good matchups for a guy (or bad matchups, if you're the guy). I do think that crazy minutes add up too, but I get why some folks aren't bought in on that.
Well, in his one chance so far, he did not handle the finals.
Your opinion is reasonable and basically correct imo.
Speaking of matchups….Sam Hauser OWNS the Atlanta Hawks. Comfort zones for shooters matter tremendously so I expect Joe to give him early minutes today to see if that continues in a playoff setting. I’m
So, all of them "might be" better than Tatum but none have the track record to prove they are. Until this year I thought for sure Luka would surpass Tatum but now I am having my doubts. It's certainly true that none of them should automatically be regarded as better.
