Mom is desperate to grab that attention. Most parents get out of the way and let their kids shine. DD
These high energy low IQ irritants never last and just end up bouncing around the league. Stone likely didnt even feel like he had "JG Tradeable Contract" upside either.
Imagine watching your teammates who are infinitely better and more valuable than you, take team friendly deals. And you, a bench player who can't even contribute consistently because you're Anthony Davis' nephew, do the opposite hahaha. Adios Tari. I'm all for betting on yourself. But have some actual common sense about your situation. You can't stay on the court, your minutes when you can be on the court are likely at risk due to DFS so how exactly are you expecting to show out in a contract year? Just yikes Tari.
We already kinda replaced him with DFS and Okogie. These two will eat into his PT ensuring he wont blow up and get a giga offer. The leverage is all on Stone esp with KD taking that discount so they have even more capspace next year. Love Tari, fairly confident he will stay a Rocket.
Tari had no leverage. You got Josh Okogie producing on a minimum deal and DFS hasn't suited up yet. If the Rockets are having a great season by the deadline then they should keep Tari. He'd be an important piece in the playoffs and he can still get paid.. The Rockets can sign and trade him when he's a restricted free agent as long as he doesn't sign an offer sheet with another team. He's making $6.5 million this season. If they're trading him at the deadline then you can count other players being included so the Rockers can get fair value in return. It seems these younger players just want their $20m -$25m/year salary so they can be set for life and don't give a damn about anything else lol. I think that's the highest Shaq made in his career.
Throwing out a few names as inevitable trade machine exercises heat up: Sam Hauser Dean Wade Keon Ellis Austin Reaves
Let's hope Eason significantly increases his market value within a year. To me, he still isn’t all the way back to where he was before he got injured.
Just remember, Momster loves her some Celtics. If we’ve got to make a deal Tari can be the centerpiece of a deal for Derrick White.
This is fine honestly. He's a 6th man for this team, I don't see him as a starter barring injury. He just doesn't fit with Alpi and Amen the way Jabari does. On top of that I still have my doubts about his leg. Make him go to RFA with that as his role and let's see where we end up. Not a lot of teams with cap space who are going to want to spend it giving out offer sheets next season.
This makes me sad. But waddya gonna do. Mom needs to get hers. Team be damned. If the man loves his momma who can fault him for that. Good job mom. This will age well.
He's going to have an ulcer by the end of the season because every "mistake" is going to have dollar signs attached to it. Good job mom.
I'm curious what the money in the negotiations looked like. I could see the Rockets going max $20m/year but Tari wanting $25-30 Tari should have just accepted a 2 year deal (say 2 years 40m or and bet on himself again later.)
Shaq indeed lived in a time when salaries were much lower but in his time 7 year and 6 year contracts are more common. The living expenses were also lower. (29.5 million was the most the Lakers paid) Nobody is giving out 7 year contracts now.
I find the reaction from everyone really strange. So he didn't sign an extension, so what? Rockets still have his bird rights and there is no guarantee that teams will throw money at him. If the Rockets don't feel good about the situation then they can look into trading him mid season although that would not be ideal. Anyways, I love Tari, he will play if he wants to get paid next season by somebody, so I'm not concerned about him causing chemistry issues.
With the caveat that RFA heavily favors the incumbent team (heck, the Rockets have only lost two RFAs to offer sheets since the concept of restricted free agency was established in the 1999 CBA), the three main things that you can do to make an offer sheet more painful under the current CBA are: 1. Alter the payment schedule; give up to 15% of the total value of the contract as a lump-sum payment in year 1. This may have hurt Tilman when he was leveraged to hell and COVID was killing all of his businesses back in 2020, but he's in the upper echelon of wealthy owners now, and if anything, would be the one putting the squeeze on more cost-conscious owners nowadays using huge tax-free signing bonuses and Landry's sponsorship deals. 2. Add a trade kicker of up to 15% of the remaining compensation. Usually this doesn't matter, since the bonus can't make your yearly salary exceed the maximum, so they're automatically waived, but for where Tari's expected earnings are ($20-25M per year), they will be both significant and also affect his cap number. 3. Include incentives. Incentives have essentially been killed by the new luxury tax aprons, since whether they are earned or not can cause you to be in violation of the first or second apron hard cap. As such, teams pretty much need to operate assuming that bonuses will be earned for the entire year, and only get the salary relief at the end of the season, when the cap room is no longer useful. It's important to note that as part of an offer sheet, only "likely-to-be-earned" for both teams bonuses need to be matched; bonuses that only apply to one team versus the other are left out (as a reminder, this is the rule that caused Motiejunas to refuse to report to the Rockets after his offer sheet from the Nets was matched). Still, I could foresee another team writing in bonuses that only trigger for the Rockets and not for the offering team after the first year, and regardless, even having those bonuses will hit a second apron team like Houston a lot harder than a team that actually has the cap room sufficient to make an offer sheet. A descending contract could affect Tari's future earnings slightly, but the fact that you're allowed to increase salary in an extension by 140% vs 120% in the old CBA likely makes it not matter all that much; we're talking about a few million in annual salary, and that's assuming he's going to be worth closer to $30M in an extension. I personally think that the offers the Rockets were willing to make were REALLY insultingly low, 1-2 year guarantees with heavy injury protection, rather than full non-taxpayer MLE+ that a fully healthy Eason would likely have earned with a clean bill of health. When you're getting reports on being far apart on both structure and total compensation, it seems pretty clear that the team is saying "go out and prove you're healthy, and we'll talk next year". I think it's a reasonable approach, and also, I think it's reasonable for Tari to be pissed off. Having the attitude of "I'm healthy, FU, and I'm going to show it to you" is why he has gotten to where he is now. We as fans should be aligned in our goals with Tari. We should want him to show he's recovered and can be trusted to play all 82. We should want him to get his bag because he's earned it. There's zero reason to call him selfish, or hate on his mom, unless you were in the room where the negotiations happened. Contracts are over, how about we get back to basketball.
