Welcome Grayson Allen - signs 4 yr/$70 million extension

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Did you mean to sticky this Qwigglez? I guess an extension is worth a sticky for 20 hours. I am going to unsticky now though. I will update thread title..

Yeah it was only meant for a day or two just to discuss the extension.

BTW, I am very happy the Suns were able to sign Grayson. I don't particularly care about the luxury tax implications since I'm not the one paying it, plus the Suns are already going to pay it and are limited in the moves they can make, adding more cash to it is probably the best approach.

[bwgood77]

Did you mean to sticky this Qwigglez? I guess an extension is worth a sticky for 20 hours. I am going to unsticky now though. I will update thread title..

Yeah it was only meant for a day or two just to discuss the extension.

BTW, I am very happy the Suns were able to sign Grayson. I don't particularly care about the luxury tax implications since I'm not the one paying it, plus the Suns are already going to pay it and are limited in the moves they can make, adding more cash to it is probably the best approach.

Yeah, it doesn't matter, even though half of the Suns fans will despise him in no more than 2 years for some reason.

[lilfishi22]

Did you mean to sticky this Qwigglez? I guess an extension is worth a sticky for 20 hours. I am going to unsticky now though. I will update thread title..

Yeah it was only meant for a day or two just to discuss the extension.

BTW, I am very happy the Suns were able to sign Grayson. I don't particularly care about the luxury tax implications since I'm not the one paying it, plus the Suns are already going to pay it and are limited in the moves they can make, adding more cash to it is probably the best approach.

Yeah, it doesn't matter, even though half of the Suns fans will despise him in no more than 2 years for some reason.

Grayson or Ishbia?

[bwgood77]

Yeah it was only meant for a day or two just to discuss the extension.

BTW, I am very happy the Suns were able to sign Grayson. I don't particularly care about the luxury tax implications since I'm not the one paying it, plus the Suns are already going to pay it and are limited in the moves they can make, adding more cash to it is probably the best approach.

Yeah, it doesn't matter, even though half of the Suns fans will despise him in no more than 2 years for some reason.

Grayson or Ishbia?

Grayson....just because that's what happens with Suns fans. He will fall back down to normal in 3 pt shooting (which is still solid at like 40% or so) or have a bad streak and half the fans will hate him.

Half the fans ALREADY can't stand Ishbia.

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Asked James Jones about Grayson Allen and a potential extension. He first joked, “You’re asking me to project 5 months from now?”

Then: “We don’t want him to go anywhere, which is why he’s here. There’s plenty of interest in Grayson Allen, but no one values him more than we do”

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I wish he valued him when Milwaukee offered to trade him straight up for Jae Crowder.

Glad we didn't sign him to 20m per so 70M over 4 years is fair value. Now we better resign Royce O'Neal because he's been just as impactful as Grayson in the short time he's been here.

This. Something like 2yr $20m might get him to stay? Suspect he'd get like a $50m over 4yr if/when he hits the open market.

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I wish he valued him when Milwaukee offered to trade him straight up for Jae Crowder.

Glad we didn't sign him to 20m per so 70M over 4 years is fair value. Now we better resign Royce O'Neal because he's been just as impactful as Grayson in the short time he's been here.

This. Something like 2yr $20m might get him to stay? Suspect he'd get like a $50m over 4yr if/when he hits the open market.

Yeah, Spotrac says that we can extend him at most for $20.5M/2 years.

O’Neale has given Phoenix exactly what they hoped for as a 3&D wing. Sure, it’s a limited sample with the Suns, but this is who O’Neale is. He’s eligible to sign for two years and $20.5 million. That feels just about right for both O’Neale and Phoenix.

$10.25M per year looks fair for him and the Suns, but I guess he can get a longer and a bit richer contract from us in the summer. Something like $35M/3 years or $45M/4 years.

[lilfishi22]

Yeah, it doesn't matter, even though half of the Suns fans will despise him in no more than 2 years for some reason.

Grayson or Ishbia?

Grayson....just because that's what happens with Suns fans. He will fall back down to normal in 3 pt shooting (which is still solid at like 40% or so) or have a bad streak and half the fans will hate him.

Half the fans ALREADY can't stand Ishbia.

I dunno if I should be surprised or not about this. Outside of the KD trade/going all in and some of the reported off court stuff, I don't see much to genuinely dislike about him. Like people forget going all in is already a massive departure from Sarver, on top of that bringing back a G-League team, getting Amare/Trix into the ROF (execution could've been better but hey), the free local games etc

I get people can have a negative opinion on the KD trade (I initially did too) but the way it's been framed, it make it seem like we broke apart the 64win Suns midseason to get KD....

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I wish he valued him when Milwaukee offered to trade him straight up for Jae Crowder.

Glad we didn't sign him to 20m per so 70M over 4 years is fair value. Now we better resign Royce O'Neal because he's been just as impactful as Grayson in the short time he's been here.

This. Something like 2yr $20m might get him to stay? Suspect he'd get like a $50m over 4yr if/when he hits the open market.

Yeah 10m per season sounds about right but who knows he might try to force our hand knowing we don't really have any options in free agency to sign anyone else.

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I think saying Royce has been as impactful as Grayson is a slight exaggeration, but will agree that he has had a tremendous impact on the team. I could see a team offering Royce a bit more than what the Suns can offer him, probably multiple teams. Still... I'm hopeful playing with KD, Booker, and Beal convinces him to stay with the Suns.

[skywalker33]

Not a great playoff ROI tonight

[MrMiyagi]

Seems like this one is becoming another classic too-soon move by Wishy-Ishy...

[Saberestar]

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[PerkinsFor3]

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I'm still deciding if he looks buff or if he looks like a 50 year old. Maybe both.

[sunskerr]

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I'm still deciding if he looks buff or if he looks like a 50 year old. Maybe both.

He looks massive lol

Might be the camera but if it's legit you can expect some of that weight to come off as he approaches the season and he gets to a new playing weight. If that's his new playing weight though good lord that would be awesome. He's always been a strong, well-built player but that looks like Jrue/PJ Tucker kind of muscle.

But it's probably the camera.

[Saberestar]

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I'm still deciding if he looks buff or if he looks like a 50 year old. Maybe both.

He looks massive lol

Might be the camera but if it's legit you can expect some of that weight to come off as he approaches the season and he gets to a new playing weight. If that's his new playing weight though good lord that would be awesome. He's always been a strong, well-built player but that looks like Jrue/PJ Tucker kind of muscle.

But it's probably the camera.

It's not the camera, there are more pictures and videos in that Duke's page and he looks in GREAT shape in all of them.

[Fo-Real]

Bulking up for small forward!!

[Crives]

Had to watch that 3-4 times, did not recognize Allen at all. Man if we can just move Beal to bench we cooking

[sunsbg]

You wanted Yabusele, you got Yabusele.

If GA has bulked up I hope it doesn't affect his shot.

[Crives]

Tbh this prolly just a post workout pump

[wheezy]

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Funny I think he was at the same bar as me in LA on Sat... didn't think it was him because he looked bigger (and older) than I'd thought.