Josh Giddey Likely To Sign For Starting Point Guard Market Rate

[Pickled Prunes]

at the current state of NBA players who expect above MLE have their choices very limited as free agents since there are very few teams with cap space every year.
Josh Giddey wants $20M ? his options are Bulls, Nets, Pistons, Pelicans and maybe Rockets.
He wants $30M and Bulls doesn't give it to him ? His only option: Nets.

Cap space is irrelevant. Any team that wants him can give him whatever they think he's worth via sign & trade.

[HotelVitale]

30m for someone who will be exploited in the yoffs isn't going to work on a top 4 seed or a contender. What is there hope?

Vintage Bulls move imo. They are a bottom 5 franchise in the league at this point which is hilarious.

Not disagreeing about Giddey but important to keep in mind that $30m means a lot less these days than it did. That’s less than 1/5th of the cap next season and like 1/7th of what most decent teams will spend in a year. Same type of money that Bruce Brown, KCP, Rozier, RJ Barrett etc make now. Kind of good 4th/5th starter money.

Also this is just one guy yapping on a podcast. Not coming from the Bulls or even an agent or whatever.

Good context, thank you. Folks get caught up in the raw dollar amount, when the percentage of the cap is a better indicator of the value of the contract.

This summer will be an interesting offseason. Josh brings many things that the typical Quickley-mold of PG can't: size, switchability, playmaking and rebounding. His weaknesses (shooting) have been muted since the ASB; has he addressed those deficiencies or is this a contract year blip??? Chicago has a clean-ish cap, so they can afford to keep him. But at what AAV salary level do they blink?

Cap keeps going up and up, and I've noticed in general sports fans are often like 10 years out of date with things like salaries. They're still thinking $30m sounds like a record-breaking deal for Lebron rather than just a regular starter's salary.

But yeah Giddey at $30m is betting that he'll pick up the shooting to a respectable level, or become more and more a legit master at what he does well now. Always a risk. I just wish people would be as quick to point out when their doubts were wrong as when they were right. Sports fans love to piss on deals that turn out bad and conveniently forget when they blasted a deal that ends up working out well.