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3J's Missed All NBA Opportunity

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3J's Missed All NBA Opportunity 

Post#1 » by SD2042 » Sun Jun 1, 2025 2:35 am

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/jaren-jackson-jr-missing-nba-163000897.html


Had JJJ made an All-NBA team, he would have been eligible to sign a five-year extension worth up to $345.3 million this offseason. Since he didn’t, the Grizzlies can offer him no more than a four-year extension worth $146.8 million unless they create cap space this summer to renegotiate his contract before offering him an extension.


The Grizzlies planned ahead in that regard by salary-dumping Marcus Smart (along with their 2025 first-round pick) to the Washington Wizards at this year’s trade deadline. They now have the ability to create up to roughly $17.5 million in cap space this offseason, although doing so would require them to rescind the rights to all of their own free agents, most notably Santi Aldama (restricted) and Luke Kennard (unrestricted).
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Re: 3J's Missed All NBA Opportunity 

Post#2 » by durden_tyler » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:16 am

So, good news, right?
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Re: 3J's Missed All NBA Opportunity 

Post#3 » by esvl » Mon Jun 2, 2025 1:02 pm

You can invite psman2 to this chat - he will explain you all the options
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Re: 3J's Missed All NBA Opportunity 

Post#4 » by jefe » Wed Jun 4, 2025 12:22 pm

I'm still confused as to why we have to release capholds to renegotiate and extend our own player (who we've had under contract for 7 years), but this isn't the first time that I've read the same analysis of the issue (Hollinger addressed it in his NYT Grizz postmortem after we got swept). Ultimately, JJJ missing out on All-NBA seems to make it more likely an extension is not signed, which seems counterintuitive to me.
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Re: 3J's Missed All NBA Opportunity 

Post#5 » by esvl » Wed Jun 4, 2025 1:54 pm

jefe wrote:I'm still confused as to why we have to release capholds to renegotiate and extend our own player (who we've had under contract for 7 years), but this isn't the first time that I've read the same analysis of the issue (Hollinger addressed it in his NYT Grizz postmortem after we got swept). Ultimately, JJJ missing out on All-NBA seems to make it more likely an extension is not signed, which seems counterintuitive to me.

We offer him raise this year from the current 23 to at least 35, so we can extend him at AAV 56 for the next 3-4 years. If he rejects that offer, we will need to trade him.

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