re: Who wants a #HOTTAKE?

I know it's easy for me to sit back here and say this was stupid or that was stupid. I know there are a lot of things as a fan we will never see or know that goes into negotiations.

The part i don't understand is that the GM and the Coach had to both feel that Jrue was very very important to this team going forward to even think about offering him the contract he got. What have they seen to think he deserves the type of money.

Just a reminder, we made Jrue the 14th highest paid player in the NBA. 14th. He's not even the 14th best backcourt player in the nba.
Here's a list of guys that are locked in for 4+ years making over $20M/yr
Steph Curry
Blake Griffin
Russell Westbrook
Mike Conley
James Harden
Damian Lillard
Jrue Holiday
CJ McCollum
Bradley Beal
Stephen Adams
Giannis
Rudy Gobert
Victor Oladipo
John Wall

Jrue's name does not belong in that list. Neither does Oladipo, but he's actually playing really well.

Why did Toronto's GM know he could resign his guy for only 3 years? How did Denvers GM know he could get Milsaps for 3 years. How did Minny's GM know they could get Teague for 3 years.
JJ Reddick gets 1 year, KCP gets 1 year. George Hill could only muster a 3 year deal from Sacto.

Where was the market for the 5 year guy? Curry, Griffin, Westbrook and Harden. That was the market. and yes i konw Jrue's 5th year is a player option, but at this rate we all know he's opting into that.

Waiters signed 4/52
Hardaway 4/71 with the 4th year player option
Snell 4/46
Otto Porter 4/104 with 4th year player option
Joe Ingles 4/50
PJ Tucker 4/32
Ibaka 3/65
Gallinari 3/65
Olynk 4/50

They point is Jrue isn't some elite level player, yet we gave him a contract like he was, and that has nothing to do with how he's playing right now. That statement was true 4 months ago. He even gave you a reason to believe he wasn't going to mesh with AD and Cousins in the last few games of the season where he looked terrible with them, and they completely ignored that.