Booker agrees to 2 year 145 million dollar contract extension

[95pro]

how could he have demanded more? isn't 75 million per the absolute MAX he could get?

he's saying the cap will go up later, so sign him now for 75M. The max will most likely be even higher in a few years, if we wait we sign him at 80M+ in a few years.

 

[taz02]

They all can do that already. $2 mil in the bank, a house paid off, and no other debt, and you can live very comfortably.

Not if you need a 10,000 sq ft house in PV with a view, and a lake house in Tahoe. Everyone has a different comfort zone....(if I knew how to insert a smiling emoji it would be here).

 

[Proximo]

he's saying the cap will go up later, so sign him now for 75M. The max will most likely be even higher in a few years, if we wait we sign him at 80M+ in a few years.

Don't be so sure the cap will go up significantly.

Everyone was projecting a 10% move up, but it only went up 7% because all the local TV deal money has collapsed from all the cable sports networks going bankrupt. Don't see it coming back either with overall NBA ratings continuing to decline.

Yes the cap will move up for the next few years, but I think all the owners know they got one over on the national deals. Unless interest grows in the NBA significantly over the next 3 years I think they will all start cutting spending knowing the next national deals will be significantly less.

 

[GatorAZ]

The more I think about this the more I think this makes him MORE tradable . . . unless he gets injured. He’s locked in for so long now that he doesn’t have ANY leverage. He can’t say he’ll walk when he becomes a free agent because that’s so far in the future. A team could just call his bluff. He ain’t sitting out multiple years. So that means he’s also more attractive to smaller market teams that have some difficulty keeping their higher end talent. Which means we don’t have to cater to where he wants to go if we are going to trade him.

I think this torpedoes his trade value. We’re probably stuck (for lack of a better term) with this contract.

 

[BooksOrangePlanet]

They all can do that already. $2 mil in the bank, a house paid off, and no other debt, and you can live very comfortably.

very comfortably changes from household to household

 

[Proximo]

I think this torpedoes his trade value. We’re probably stuck (for lack of a better term) with this contract.

No it doesn't.

He is still a top 15 player - I expect everyone to realize it again this year once his role gets bigger again.

There are 30 teams, and all of them know you need a top guy to really compete. This is just the going rate for the next few years.

 

[Cheesebeef]

No it doesn't.

He is still a top 15 player - I expect everyone to realize it again this year once his role gets bigger again.

He’s not even a top 20 player anymore much less a top 15 player.

 

[95pro]

Don't be so sure the cap will go up significantly.

Everyone was projecting a 10% move up, but it only went up 7% because all the local TV deal money has collapsed from all the cable sports networks going bankrupt. Don't see it coming back either with overall NBA ratings continuing to decline.

Yes the cap will move up for the next few years, but I think all the owners know they got one over on the national deals. Unless interest grows in the NBA significantly over the next 3 years I think they will all start cutting spending knowing the next national deals will be significantly less.

Was just reiterating another poster.

But still its safe to say that locking him in now rather than later is a money saving move. Doing the extension is a whole other convo.

 

[Proximo]

Not if you need a 10,000 sq ft house in PV with a view, and a lake house in Tahoe. Everyone has a different comfort zone....(if I knew how to insert a smiling emoji it would be here).

Nobody NEEDS a 10,000 sq ft house.

 

[Proximo]

He’s not even a top 20 player anymore much less a top 15 player.

Yes he is. His stats were down last year, but he is about to have the best year of his career.

 

[GatorAZ]

No it doesn't.

He is still a top 15 player - I expect everyone to realize it again this year once his role gets bigger again.

There are 30 teams, and all of them know you need a top guy to really compete. This is just the going rate for the next few years.

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Book is at his best with an elite floor general and Jalen Green is the opposite of Chris Paul. This was a pointless extension and Ishbia just trying to buy the good graces of Suns fans.

 

[BooksOrangePlanet]

He’s not even a top 20 player anymore much less a top 15 player.

taintum - dame - kyrie - hali - all hurt this next year - book might actually crack the top 10 - probably an all star lol

 

[95pro]

Yes he is. His stats were down last year, but he is about to have the best year of his career.

I believe this too. They built/are building around him.

 

[Proximo]

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Book is at his best with an elite floor general and Jalen Green is the opposite of Chris Paul. This was a pointless extension and Ishbia just trying to buy the good graces of Suns fans.

I don't agree, about any of this statement.

Giving him this extension improves his trade value as the trading team will have him under control longer.

Book is at his best when he has the ball. Every scoring run that gets us back in a game happens when he is running the offense.

 

[taz02]

Nobody NEEDS a 10,000 sq ft house.

Nobody NEEDS A 2,000 sq ft house. The average size home in China is 650 sq ft.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Yes he is. His stats were down last year, but he is about to have the best year of his career.

He’s made the ALL NBA team (which has 15 players) TWICE in TEN years. He also doesn’t move the needle as a winning player game changer. He’s a second banana. A very good one, one of the best second bananas, but that’s not a top 15 player.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I don't agree, about any of this statement.

Giving him this extension improves his trade value as the trading team will have him under control longer.

Book is at his best when he has the ball. Every scoring run that gets us back in a game happens when he is running the offense.

Book’s stats may the best when he has the ball, but it’s empty calorie points that haven’t lead to winning. Zach Lavine can put up a lot of pretty stats. Doesn’t make him a top 15 player.

 

[BooksOrangePlanet]

we're gonna see a lot of halibookin this year

 

[GatorAZ]

He’s made the ALL NBA team (which has 15 players) TWICE in TEN years. He also doesn’t move the needle as a winning player game changer. He’s a second banana. A very good one, one of the best second bananas, but that’s not a top 15 player.

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Which is why you wait another year to see if he bounces back before extending him. I think between trading him, doing nothing, or extending him they picked the worst option of the three.

 

[Mainstreet]

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Book is at his best with an elite floor general and Jalen Green is the opposite of Chris Paul. This was a pointless extension and Ishbia just trying to buy the good graces of Suns fans.

In regard to the latter.

I wish the Suns had the problem of building around two stars instead of one.

Extending Devin Booker is the least of the Suns concerns.

 

[Chaplin]

Book’s stats may the best when he has the ball, but it’s empty calorie points that haven’t lead to winning. Zach Lavine can put up a lot of pretty stats. Doesn’t make him a top 15 player.

I know you don't like Book as a Top 15 player, but even I know that a comparison to Zach freaking Lavine is not an apples to apples comparison. He's at best a lower top 50 player, but that's it. Book is much higher regardless of where you put him. Top 15, Top 20, Top 30. Zach Lavine is no Devin Booker, not even close.

Now, the old comparison to Donovan Mitchell is probably apt here.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Nobody NEEDS a 10,000 sq ft house.

Have you seen that interview where Shaq talks about his house? He has a 31,000 sf house in Florida and the only two rooms he uses are the kitchen and the bedroom. I could afford a lot more stuff, but why? I don't need it at all. I saw a homeless guy the other day riding a bike dragging a train of three shopping carts behind him all filled with junk. Getting more stuff is just like that. It just makes life more complicated.

I am agreeing with you, btw.

 

[Cheesebeef]

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Which is why you wait another year to see if he bounces back before extending him. I think between trading him, doing nothing, or extending him they picked the worst option of the three.

Agreed.

 

[Mainstreet]

Bobby Marks talks about Devin Booker's extension and how it might look in 5 years.

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[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Once the decision is made to keep him, you have to keep him happy. I think the suns should have traded him "because the team is in such a bad spot", but I can certainly understand keeping him.

Taking less money would have been stupid on Booker's part and ridiculous to expect. He is building generational wealth that will impact his family long after he is gone.

I seriously doubt, when Ish sells the suns for 5 billion, he will say to the buyer, hey since you're such a great person I'll knock 500mil off.

Those are two entirely different scenarios and really have no reason being in the same conversation. Whatever ish sells the team for is just money in his pocket and out of the new owners pocket. Whatever Booker makes directly impacts the ability to add talent around him. I don’t begrudge him for making as much as possible. But when you see other stars (albeit a very small number of them) take less to enable their team to add more talent around them, well, it does shed light on players’ priorities.

As for generational wealth . . . by the end of this contract I’m pretty sure that in total earnings and endorsements book will be approaching, if not exceeding half a billion dollars. If that’s been invested even conservatively he’ll exceed a billion dollars by his death. Giving up a few million to accommodate better teammates isn’t likely to impact the generations that will be covered by his wealth.