The question then is if the Bulls want to pay him that level or not move on without him on the team. After the break, LaVine cooled off a little (plus got injured, then held out of weeks of games due to health and safety protocol) but his team impact numbers improved.Įven with that caveat, the Bulls themselves likely see LaVine as this level of player because we see their actions: trading future assets for a complement to LaVine was as much a buy-in of LaVine as it was the acquired Nikola Vucevic.Īnd, again, there’s merely a little room for nuance when it comes to the market of LaVine’s next contract: whether or not he is ‘deserving’ of this tier, he is going to get something well above his current salary. The notion to extend this summer was brought to the forefront by LaVine’s outstanding play before the All-Star break. Now, I am less bought-in on LaVine than I was with Butler as a max (or merely max-ish) level player. This was kind of lost in the Jimmy Butler failure, the last time a Bulls player was looking to be correctly paid as a star.
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It’s important to also remember that there are different degrees of ‘max’, and ‘supermax’, and the Bulls don’t have to offer the top allowable dollar for it to still be above what another team can offer LaVine in free agency.
The negotiation this summer between the Bulls and LaVine wouldn’t be about whether LaVine would ‘take less’ as much as whether he should ‘take it now’ versus becoming an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2022. Nobody worth taking seriously would even suggest it let alone be a proponent of it, unless they were being disingenuous and/or insulting to LaVine and/or trying to curry favor with the owner’s son. So we can immediately rule out the idea of LaVine taking a ‘standard’ extension of 120% above his final-year salary.
It’s an interesting dilemma to be sure, and it requires some thought and knowledge of the cap. Again, they said nothing outside of the expected pap (AK, especially, is a total dud of a talker), so we are left to speculate on what that could look like. There was literally nothing of interest said the entire afternoon.īut it was asked of both Karnisovas and Zach LaVine their plans for a possible early contract extension, as LaVine is slated to make $19.5M in the final season of his 4-year deal. The Bulls held their end-of-season ‘exit interviews’ online, with several players and head basketball dude Arturas Karnisovas participating.
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