re: CJ agrees to 2 year 64 million dollar extension

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I don't understand why they needed to do this now.

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A market like New Orleans has to do it now because if they let him play out this year he’ll be an expiring. There’s no way he agrees to 2 years next summer so you either do a 3 year extension which puts you in the same place anyway . However, if he has a good year there’s a good chance he decides to play it out and go to free agency.


Once that happens he can always leave and it’s almost certain the Pels will have to give him good money over 4 years to keep him. When have you ever seen a coveted unrestricted FA sign just a two year deal? So with this new deal CJ needs to give you 3 good years and if his play starts to slip you’ll have a 32 million expiring that you can package assets with to swing a big trade in year 4. If you don’t do this deal the 2 most likely scenarios are CJ walks for nothing 2 years for now or you have to pay him in the range of 120 million over 4 years and instead of hoping he can play well until he’s 34 you’re hoping he can hold on to 36 and if it turns negative you’ll have an albatross for most of BIs and Zion’s primes.