Hal14 wrote:keevsnick1 wrote:Hal14 wrote:Are you sure about that? I figured that whatever team traded for him would be able to extend him - like what we just did with Porzingis
Brad always looks relaxed - at least since moving into the front office. If anything he seemed a little bit nervous the other night when he was interviewed during our SL game. And during that interview (and I doubt this was a coincidence) the broadcasters had him on for 5 minutes yet didn't bring up the JB extension at all. Hmm, weird..
And this quote doesn't inspire a ton of confidence, especially the "I probably shouldn't say anything else" part.
Also, Brad says "we're looking forward to all sitting down".
Wait what? He's been eligible to sign since July 1 and you haven't even sat down with him yet? I thought reports were saying JB was gonna be in Vegas all week to sit down with Brad and get this hammered out?
Also, Brad says he's looking forward to sitting down with JB, and then literally the very next day (today) we find out that JB is headed to Europe for an event and that talks will be paused till he gets back.
Hmmm...
He can technically be extended, its just he's very unlikely to extend wherever he's traded. Basically any other team is limited to 140% of his current salary in an extension, but 140% of his current base salary doesn't reach the max salary he'd get on a 30% max contract. To make up the difference they could carry over his current incentives to his next contract, but incentives of course aren't guaranteed. So Brown would have a fair bit of financial incentive just to wait to free agency and sign a fresh contract without any incentives.
Extend and trades are limited to two years added to a contract at 5% raises. Brown obviously would never agree to that, so you can't extend him before trading him in and extend and trade scenario. So if he's traded he can extend with the new team for more/longer once he's there, but not for 6 months. So even if he was traded today he couldn't extend before Jan 14th. At that point, why would he extend when he an wait four months and be a free agent?
And on top of all that Brown knows if he's traded he loses the super max, so he'd likely tell anybody after him he's not resigning just as a leverage play. But this part is speculation.
All of this together just makes is so hard to extend him. Part of the reason Brown being eligibility for the superman was important to the c's is it removed any uncertainty about how whether it made sense for him financially to extend.This was ESPECIALLY the case when the old CBA limited extensions to 120% of final year salary.
man, idk how you guys remember all these rules lol.
To much free time on my hands.
