BillMc
12-20-2016, 05:23 PM
Can someone more contract savvy than me confirm this? According to the new CBA superstar players can get a massive 5 year contract if they are free agents ONLY in their 8th or 9th year. Kawhi is in his 6h and has 4 more years on his contract (including this year and including a player option) so, he should be good. According to Brian Windhorst:
To get this type of premium deal you have to have played eight or nine years in the league and been on the All-NBA team this year or in two of the past three years, win the Defensive Player of the Year or have won the MVP in one of the past three years. You also have to re-sign with the team you played for since your rookie contract, although players traded during their rookie contracts still qualify. That's not a lot of players.
He'll be eligible (I think) for a five year 209 million dollar contract or even more. I assume it means he'll have to have been All-NBA three years from now, but hopefully that's not a problem.
Apparently eight or nine years is the key. When Westbrook, for example, is up for his next contract he'll miss out. Windhorst again:
it's a major bummer for OKC. They've gotten pretty unlucky in how the rules have applied to them. To make it worse, they won't even have the new advantages when Westbrook can become a free agent in 2018 because he'll have played 10 years and other teams can offer him the same starting salary. Had the Thunder known this, they might not have signed him to an extension last summer when Durant left. Like I said, it's a major bummer.
http://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/sa/san-antonio-spurs
Kawhi, then, has a chance to be the wealthiest Spur in team history.
To get this type of premium deal you have to have played eight or nine years in the league and been on the All-NBA team this year or in two of the past three years, win the Defensive Player of the Year or have won the MVP in one of the past three years. You also have to re-sign with the team you played for since your rookie contract, although players traded during their rookie contracts still qualify. That's not a lot of players.
He'll be eligible (I think) for a five year 209 million dollar contract or even more. I assume it means he'll have to have been All-NBA three years from now, but hopefully that's not a problem.
Apparently eight or nine years is the key. When Westbrook, for example, is up for his next contract he'll miss out. Windhorst again:
it's a major bummer for OKC. They've gotten pretty unlucky in how the rules have applied to them. To make it worse, they won't even have the new advantages when Westbrook can become a free agent in 2018 because he'll have played 10 years and other teams can offer him the same starting salary. Had the Thunder known this, they might not have signed him to an extension last summer when Durant left. Like I said, it's a major bummer.
http://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/sa/san-antonio-spurs
Kawhi, then, has a chance to be the wealthiest Spur in team history.