Victor “Wemby” Wembanyama Signs 5 Years/$252 Million Extension With San Antonio Spurs

Victor gave up $50M in this extension. He could have signed for $303M.

Hate to admit it, but I respect that.

 

Super disappointing, this is the 1st time ever a star in their prime gave up any meaningful money. I know people talk about brunson but he got the maximum possible extension he could, his extra money would have only happened by waiting and a small guard who was gonna be 30 can't really risk waiting.

 

At his height he better hope he can stay healthy because the injury history of players 7'3" and taller in the NBA is not kind. Although, that being said, Anthony Davis at 6'11" is Mr. Glass and is still around at 33, so there's that.

 

Ironically, Wembanyama is probably one of the 4 to 5 players who deserve the supermax.

 

This is what's funny to me. The league is trying to create parity by making a 1st and 2nd apron taxed very high to keep teams from overloading their roster, but then allow teams to hand out ridiculous contract to one player. They know most players will not take that paycut even if offered the chance to build around that player better.

So players take the supermax and then complain that their team is not doing all they can to stay competitive to win a title. I wish more players would sacrifice like Wemby has ($50 mil over 5 years is a ton no matter what your contract is) but sadly the league makes these stars look greedy and selfish and wants everyone to blame them for taking what's available.

If $200 mil is the luxury tax line, how in the F can they allow 1 player to take up 35% of that? The league is trying to build superstars but then limit that to almost 1 per team max. The only way around that is to get young players surrounding that star that haven't hit their salary peak yet and hope they compliment each other, or force these next tier players to get a ton less.

Here's KD making $50 mil a season at age 37. Did he play 78 games and score some points as the go-to guy? Yes, but was he able to play the playoffs? Were people not complaining of his high usage during the season? If he can't be trusted to play like a 27 year old then why is he able to continue getting max contracts? Why isn't there a lower cap on players that have hit a certain age or have been shown to be injury prone? Why can't the league step in and say to someone like Zion that you've only played x amount of games during your career due to injuries so your contract is maxed out lower? Why is the league allowing players to control everything and putting it on them when it fails?

 

This was my biggest issue with Yao's last contract. He had more fans than anyone in the world and kept signing max contracts despite rarely being able to finish a season. He earned 93 million is his career and his net worth today is almost double. He could be worth 100 million today and have a ring instead of 160 million with no rings.

I realize rejecting 20 million is easier said than done, but there really is no lifestyle or happiness difference between 100 million and 160 million. There is a significant happiness difference between accomplishing your childhood goals and not.

 

Need to be investigated. He will receive $50 mill worth of croissants and berets.

 

shows a lot about that he gave up that much money. It isn’t a huge amount, but it should set the precedent for their other young players. Vassel and Keldon, if I remember right, locked themselves in on team friendly deals years ago.

I would largely expect this influences Amen to do the same thing.

the other thing here is that there are some elevated health issues with Wemby. so maybe this is in consideration of that as well.

dD

 

Webangyamama better stay healthy or he’ll be at T.J. Maxx soon

 

Very unlikely, his long list of health problems.

 

Yeah, but what does “they worked through multiple frameworks” mean. Sounds like it wasn’t the actual fully-guaranteed 5-year Supermax Ant, Cade, Mobley, etc got, but rather just 30% starting, otherwise Shams doesn’t report

“they worked through multiple frameworks … offering the full super max and different variations of extensions”​

he doesnt says they offered what Ant, etc got. I think Shams is using the word “super max” just as 30%, but not full raises over 5-yrs, all gauranteed.

I come away thinking he wasn’t getting fully guaranteed…Spurs were protecting themselves against injury.

 

My biggest issue with Yao’s last contract was that it was offered

 

No that’s complete nonsense. The spurs would give him whatever contract he wants. Of course it’s fully guaranteed.

 

What I’m saying is not what he got, but the “multiple frameworks … different variations of extensions” that they discussed. What was that all about?

I mean sure, maybe they went in discussing honestly “we can give you 30%, full raises, full years, but that will hamstring us…what would you think about taking less than that?” If that’s what they did, then your right, that’s unprecedented … probably could only work with players who are set with huge endorsement deals, as well, like he is.

If he just flat-out rejected Ant, Cade, Mobley deals, bet the Union isn’t all that happy with it.

 

Ya that’s exactly what happened. It’s basically cheating the cap in a “legal” way.

 

It is odd, the “multiple frameworks” thing but he certainly has all the leverage in the world. I think he is just trying to be a team player and wants to win as much as possible. It’s not like he hasn’t already earned generational wealth.