The Official NBA Season Thread: Las Vegas Summer League / USA vs AUS at noon ET on FS1

[pmatic]

 

[Coupé It]

My Knicks winning two titles in the next 5 years…

 

[Maximus Meridius]

 

[B Sox]

My Knicks winning two titles in the next 5 years…

 

[getback]

Are the knicks catching heat for getting Brunson on a great deal? What are we doing?

lol huh? Obviously not.

 

[Coupé It]

Btw hope your Summers are going well fellas.

WASHED KING Shaboozy has the Summer LITTT even out here.

 

[Blue Mamba]

I always wondered what would happen if a star player took a massive discount because they’ll already be making hundreds of millions of dollars. Pretty funny seeing the reaction to it actually happening

 

[pmatic]

Got that 10 year pension and calling it quits.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

17.5

next one ya'll getting passed up

 

[sohi 23]

I hope the lakers win the nba cup again that **** was fire

 

[c flyness]

 

[B Sox]

 

[ALNotSure]

Laker Nation made summer league cool.

0-3 is the most Lakers thing too

 

[lawdog1]

Got that 10 year pension and calling it quits.

Props to Muscala. I don’t know if it’s possible for anyone to have a more nondescript 10 year NBA career than he did. Remarkable in its unremarkableness.

 

[ALNotSure]

Hate to see it

Sources: Nuggets top pick Holmes tears Achilles

Nuggets rookie DaRon Holmes, the No. 22 pick in this year's draft, suffered a torn Achilles in his summer league debut and is likely to miss the season, sources confirmed to ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[nick.]

If you assume that Brunson would have otherwise signed a five-year max contract with the Knicks next summer, the gap between that deal and the one he signed Friday was roughly $113.6 million. However, that is a significant oversimplification of the situation.

Let's look at this contract year-by-year. The 2024-25 season, in either scenario, is a wash. The only way that the Knicks could have added salary to Brunson's deal for this upcoming season would have been by creating cap space to execute a renegotiation-and-extension. They operated above the cap, so that wasn't on the table. Brunson was always going to earn the $25 million or so that he was contractually guaranteed when he originally signed in New York. The new money conversation begins with the 2025-26 season.

This new deal covers three guaranteed seasons before strategically giving Brunson the chance to opt out ahead of the 2028-29 campaign (more on that in a bit). He received a 40% raise on his 2024-25 salary, which rises 8% annually thereafter. That is the maximum allowable under veteran extension rules. If Brunson had waited until next summer to re-sign, his new salary would not have been linked to his old one. He would have become a free agent eligible to earn anything up to his max, which would have been 30% of the salary cap as a seven-year veteran with those same 8% annual raises attached. The difference in those figures is significant, but it's not $113.6 million.

Jalen Brunson contract extension FAQ: How much did Knicks star really leave on table, what move means for NY

Brunson re-signed with the Knicks for $156.5 million over four years

www.cbssports.com

 

[WASHED KING]

Btw hope your Summers are going well fellas.

WASHED KING Shaboozy has the Summer LITTT even out here.

Not Like Us and Bar song are ANTHEMs

 

[rolaholic]

 

[iamjusayn]

So I see why they hiding bronny into the sg position. Bruh cannot successfully bring the ball up court. He has the same fake left go right move then get picked. They have bruh in the SG role and cannot shoot is nasty work! The intensity of these summer league games are a lot more than those nba combines and the pre season is more intense than this and the regular season is way more intense than the pre season = Insane Nepotism

 

[pums]

Bronny cant dribble in traffic, make open 3’s . You need both to make it in the league at 6’2.

 

[geno90221]

Bronny cant dribble in traffic, make open 3’s . You need both to make it in the league at 6’2.

He Needs a summer with Dame

 

[akajae]

nick. is just X xxpizzo with Timbs on at this point

 

[MajinZuub]

I'd hate to be a mentor on this team

 

[akajae]

Btw hope your Summers are going well fellas.

WASHED KING Shaboozy has the Summer LITTT even out here.

Is this dude an industry plant word to the music forum?

Been hearing this terrible song everywhere. Thought it was a white guy then I read somewhere he’s Nigerian lol

 

[Mark Antony]

Damn i'm finna lose her to a hooper.