@JeffDLowe This is all extremely true. But objectively hilarious/ironic that one of your cohosts on your movie pod literally does everything you say people shouldn’t do lmao. Just wild lack of self awareness here.
@SupermansTruck@gr617_josh@itsjwills No reason to pull the trigger until they have to (NBA draft) MIA’s offer isn’t changing, mine as well and see if anyone else gets desperate.
@SupermansTruck@gr617_josh@itsjwills Bucks fans just in perpetual fear that they're going to get screwed from the Giannis situation. All rationale thoughts go out the door.
@GRAW2ROBZ@itsjwills Right. All it takes is one team. And the new CBA makes it apples to oranges to the Durant max.
But this idea that there is "zero risk" is laughably wrong. And pretty damn easy to say when it's not your $275m on the line.
@gr617_josh@itsjwills Nah, you’re stuck in the past. It’s not the 90s. Knicks couldn’t get a superstar to come there forever. No one’s flocking to LA. No one chooses big markets because they can have more earning power there.
If anything it’s the opposite for someone like Giannis.
@gr617_josh@itsjwills The guaranteed money now vs waiting a year is significant. Again, no superstars in the NBA go to UFA anymore. I can't even think of the last one that did. Was it Durant in '19?
@gr617_josh@itsjwills There is no difference in the marketing money he could make. It's 2026, guys don't push go to big markets like they used to. Every deal Giannis could make in NY or MIA he's made with MIL.
I concede the difference in the actual money isn't that much. But
@gr617_josh@itsjwills It looks like 15. Fair enough, I got wrong info on the 60.
This doesn't change the fact no players pass up on the guaranteed extensions. Who is the last superstar player to enter free agency?
@gr617_josh@itsjwills Durant was 30, Giannis would be 32. Giannis has past injury history and plays a completely different game.
That was old CBA, new CBA gives much more repercussions for max contracts.
And with all that, there were still teams that wouldn't sign Durant because of his injury. "lol"