Potential extensions for Alperen Sengun and Jalen Green

When is the deadline?

Isn't everyone close to being very good getting the max?

Sengun—I think he deserves the max, unless his injury impacted him.

Jalen—his inconsistency... yikes, I don't know. But if everyone is getting a max, would consider it.

With open questions, it seems RFA makes the most sense. What's the downside of RFA?

 

I say offer them both a Devin Vassell deal (Spurs), 5 years $146 million. I think it would be fair.

 

No it would not. Maybe for Jalen.

 

I’ve got no problem thinking he isn’t good

 

When is the NBA rookie contract extension deadline in 2023?


If a player was selected in the first round of the 2020 draft, they could have signed a contract extension with their current team until the day before the start of the regular season -- Oct. 23, 2023 at 6 p.m. ET

DD

 

This isn't how it works at all. If we give Sengun an extension this off-season, it still kicks in the year after. If Jalen plays amazing and gets a max too next off-season he'll get paid the same amount, so no one is being underpaid compared to each other. If JG takes issue with the emotional aspect of this which is the only difference if Sengun gets an extension, he can pay us back some of that like ~3x he's making compared to Sengun while not being nowhere as good as him for the last 3 years to make up for how Sengun must have been feeling during that time. How does that sound?

Thankfully no pro org makes decisions this way. You guys are mad delusional if you think anyone cares how another player feels when making extension decisions - or if Rockets is an org that works this way for their own sake I hope the entire young core leaves. You don't make these kinds of non-professional arguments seriously if you don't have a bias or if it's your own wishful thinking. The only factors playing into this decision are the hit on the cap space, and whether they deserved it. Some of you are basically rationalizing asking Sengun to wait for a year during which he can have a bad injury or something that might impact his performance in a critical one for him since it can impact how much he makes for 4 more years and might potentially lose him tens of millions of dollars - just so your precious boy JG's feelings don't get hurt. The super entitled attitude of JG stans really knows no bounds.

The gist of the matter here however is simple. Sengun deserves a max and will probably get it from someone next off-season if not Houston barring any exceptional circumstances, but for cap space reasons it makes sense to wait. JG can get an extension if we are signing them for cheap, but I don't think he'll accept that so probably hits RFA or balls out next season and also gets a max/close to a max.

 

To add, extending Sengun this season and extending JG next season, assuming both are max contracts, doesn't result in JG making more than Sengun either. The contracts will be for the max determined at that time. So signing this off-season or next really makes no difference to them other than the emotional dimension of this really (which I'm not downplaying, if that wasn't important every org would let their players go to RFA, but also understandable given the unique cap hold situation for Sengun)

 

It is not even about the max anymore, this just prolongs the No Hierarchy state after FVV, I do not think it is good long term.

 

neither. wait till sheppard is ready for an extension.

 

The only risk to not signing them now is if one of them makes an all NBA team and then the price tag goes up substantially. there are 3 teams so both have a long shot chance. I’d go ahead and sign Sengun, because he is worth it just based on how he played last year even with no improvement this year. I would not on Green, because he has a much bigger hill to climb to even be near all-star like Sengun was last year and has pretty close to zero chance as all-NBA with all the superstar guards.

 

I think Stone cares about having option of cap space next season. Signing Sengun would kill that. I think a lot has to go wrong for the Rockets to have cap space and it would take losing a lot of value to open max space. I'd sign Sengun to 25% of the salary cap easy.

Green, I'd hoped we would know better on his value going forward. I'd take him to RFA. It is up to him to earn his contract.

 

Cade just got the back 5/226m

 

Yes it would be fair. Senun comiing off injury. It's just an offer Senun can decide not to take it.

 

I think Cade is worth it. Pistons have been too bad to see it.

 

LMAO. It would be insulting.

 

30M per is not insulting lol wtf. You realize James Harden signing for 35M per? Sengun isn't even an all star yet.

 

this might even eclipse the monty williams contract in terms of sheer stupidity

 

Such an overpay for Cade. Surely Tilman and Stone wont fork out $90-100 mill per year for Green and Sengun.

 

The comparison is Cade Cunningham and Scottie Barnes, not James Harden.

I bet you anything that next season, Sengun will play on a max contract. Somewhere.