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Devin Booker bout to be paid $1m/game tbh.
Am I missing something? Did Duke learn to shoot recently?
Last edited by Darkwaters; 07-09-2025 at 08:23 PM.
Devin Booker bout to be paid $1m/game tbh.
It's the role and the timing, he's key to their le aspirations on both ends. Think of it this way: Fox will probably get more (per year), is he more important to the Spurs than Chet is to OKC? Is his contract more likely to age well than Chet's? On paper you definitely want him for less and maybe you can if you play some hardball, but at the end of the day some risks you cannot avoid and I'd rather be OKC and have Chet for 5 years / 250 million than Toronto with Quickley for 5 years / 175 million. It's a crazy day and age.
This. What's the point playing hardball here? even if he tears his achilles next year he will still get max offers next summer so the Thunder not paying him max is just basically saying we don't want him.
Meh Zion's been doing that for years tbh
Chets value goes way beyond counting stats.
Look at any defensive metrics such as number of DFGA and the allowed DFG% he’s like head and shoulders above the league. Ok maybe some of that is the elite defensive guards pressuring the shooter as well but Chet and Wemby are already the two most impactful defensive players on the league.
Well, one way to get HOU fans to stop fantasizing over poaching Booker away from PHX is for the Suns to just give him the grossest extension in the history of the league
Jordan McClaughlin back with the spurs on a 1 year deal per shams
I guess we resigned our backup PG...$3M for McLaughin
I don't think that anyone in here was arguing Chet's value based off of what he does when he's on the floor. My argument was that even if the likelihood of a max extension was virtually a guarantee ... why the rush of doing it now? OKC still holds his rights and can offer the same exact contract up until the end of this upcoming season, and Chet is obviously going to sign it. While I know that there is a risk for even the healthiest of players to sustain a debilitating injury, Chet has already sustained two MAJOR (and several minor) injuries that has caused him to miss practically half of the games in his career. It's not really unreasonable to see him sustaining another major injury this year and him missing significant time. If that was the case, I don't think that anyone would be upset at OKC for offering him less than the max (even if that meant offering him slightly more thank he could get out on the open market). It's just too much of a risk in my mind and I don't see the benefit of doing it now.
Meh, I guess. I was hoping for someone with more upside - but I guess this means that when they made the Fox trade, McLaughin was not just a throw in. It appears that he was someone the Spurs were interested in as well.
Yeah McLaughlin seems underwhelming but with the so much of the ball promised to Fox/Castle/Harper you really just need backup depth insurance at that point
Matt Bonner was a throw-in with the Rasho Nesterovic trade. It didn’t stop him from spending a decade in San Antonio.
Sometimes you get a closer look at a guy in a situation like that and it just works out.
I think with young guards with promise, you want certainty of solid and happy to sit. If our guard rotation was CP and Steph going into the season, I'd want a bigger swing, but with Fox and Harper, you need someone to sit, and be OK, supporting the team from the bench, then play competently. I think they looked at Rollins as a combo of upside and role, but didn't want to commit 3 years / rest of the MLE / BAE, especially as they were waiting for sorting out big man depth.
Perfectly fine move.
We now got 13 solid rotation players. Wouldn‘t mind adding a young project wing to the roster.
Well Quickley is an overpaid, small guard. Chet has that unique skill set where he can shoot 3s and protect the rim. There a few out there that can. But he is not a two way player and would likely have a Brook Lopez like career. Perhaps not even remotely better offensively that Brook who never earned a max.
They don’t want it to go into restricted free agency next summer, because a number of teams put aside cap room. Totally the opposite of this year.
David Jones Garcia has piqued my interest.
Same here, I think he gets a contract. We are kinda thin on young developing talent after trading our second round pick, Blake and Brenham. Dude has been dropping solid numbers averaging 24.5 points.
Seems like he can shoot, too. His listed height is 6’6”, so he’s got wingish size.
Quickley's measurements are almost identical to Fox's-- do you consider Fox to be a small guard? Or do you just mean small compared to Chet?
This is why I'm slightly concerned with the notion of extending Fox to the tune of roughly $55mil/year. Quickley makes $35mil/yr, is considered by some to be overpaid, and is younger than Fox, with slightly better impact numbers. Fox has never had a BPM above 3.0, which is very rare for a star player, and for his career he barely registers as a net positive player. He has the raw numbers of a star, but definitely not the advanced stats of one.
Yeah. I'm not going to say giving Fox the max will be done horrible mistake, but it's going to have really difficult repercussions for us. The reason he was traded was that the Kings didn't want to max him. He'd still be there otherwise. Not giving him the max may be the smartest thing they've done for a while although the rest is questionable.
I fear that in two or three years we're going to regret this.
Restricted free agency wouldn't make a difference if they are planning on maxing him. They would pay less if Chet signed an offer sheet and they matched it. Paying him now is a goodwill move toward Chet and a notice to potential future free agents that the Thunder will take care of them.
I’m guessing the Spurs will keep one roster spot open for flexibility and not fill it out until they break camp. That leaves one roster spot and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was given to somebody who impresses in summer league. Could be from the Spurs summer league roster or another team. Jones-Garcia is probably the frontrunner right now with Riley Minix and Harrison Ingram also in the mix. Dark horse for a roster spot or two-way would be Chibuzo Agbo because of his shooting.
Maybe, but I'm sure Chet doesn't want to wait either given his injury history, and there are months to negotiate still on a possible extension. Bottom line I think OKC had more margin here than they chose to use, they probably see a window and don't want to mess with it.
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