Lauri Markkanen agrees to 5 yr/$238 mil contract with Jazz

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Depends

$48 mil would make him the 18th highest paid player next season and a top 5 highest paid PF. Do you believe he’s a top 20 player and a top 5 PF?

But also he likely gets a max on the open market regardless

with the new tv deal the cap is going to go up
markanenn is only 27 and has avg like 24-25 ppg and 8 boards the past two years

plus utah literally has a bunch of young guys on rookie deals might as well pay someone good to reach the cap floor next year
 

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In every contract extension thread we say its an overpay...

every nba team is going to have a guy signing this type of money soon its the new nba
the salary cap min next year is 126 mill
before this signing utah was at 86 mill with like 9 dudes signed
 

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with the new tv deal the cap is going to go up
markanenn is only 27 and has avg like 24-25 ppg and 8 boards the past two years

plus utah literally has a bunch of young guys on rookie deals might as well pay someone good to reach the cap floor next year

I’m fine with the deal. Like I was trying to say it might be a slight overpay now but should age well assuming he maintains this level of play

And yeah it’s relatively low risk for Utah
 
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