Only the home team can offer such a deal. https://www.spotrac.com/nba/toronto-raptors/pascal-siakam-20232 However, he was a free agent last summer, and the 76ers knew they couldn’t keep everybody. 15 FGA) in an NBA Finals game? People seem to think that it is inevitable that Beal will leave Washington eventually, and he was talked about as a trade target before signing his new deal, worth around $127 million. The third column applies not just to players with 10+ years of experience, but also to players who meet the Designated Veteran Extension criteria. That doesn’t mean Middleton isn’t worth the money. But the impact of avoiding that potential pay raise is actually far larger than the small amount I was hoping to save, so I am fully behind this safer play. He and Rudy Gobert complement each other well for the Jazz. The third column also reflects what Kawhi Leonard could get in free agency if he opts out in 2021, though he won’t have full Bird rights yet, preventing him from signing for more than four years. But what does this have to do with Pascal’s extension? He’s making the max. Siakam was two assists shy from recording his first triple-double of the season. He is the worst defender of the bunch as it stands. He has three years and $59 million left on the $126 million, six-year deal he signed with the Cubs before the 2018 season. ... Pascal Siakam’s struggles are overshadowing Kyle Lowry’s continued brilliance. A win is a win, but last night did little to dispel the concerns of Raptors fans in this young season. Denver would certainly not be adding picks and valuable vets to it if they even wanted to make the trade. Pascal hits free agency at 30, still in his prime, and able to ask for a big contract — potentially including that aforementioned designated veteran extension, as he’ll have eight years of service to his name at that point (oddly, the early 35 percent max is not available to players with nine years of service, even if they are All-NBA talents). New York Knicks Receive: Andre Drummond ($28.75M 2020-21 Salary). However, it seems like the 31-year-old may have finally found his home in Miami. The Raptors lock in their young star long term, with no option years to worry about, and cap his earnings at a number they project to be able to fit, without risking a great performance from Siakam further increasing his cost to the team, unless he really does launch himself into Kawhi Leonard-esque heights — an outcome the team would surely be delighted with. The fifth year would not only have taken Siakam an extra year away from his prime, but eliminate the possibility of that early supermax. Earlier in the fall I had proposed the Raptors should try to get Pascal to shave a couple million off his max salary to free up a little more wiggle room in 2021. Only he and Fred VanVleet are signed beyond 2021 for less than half the projected salary cap. As a rookie in 2016, Siakam signed a four-year, $6 million contract and has earned about $4 million over his first three seasons. According to Siegel, Siakam is set to earn $129 million over the next four years if he doesn't make an All-NBA Team or makes the All-NBA Third Team this season. Kyrie is polarizing, both in his play and in his personality. Now, that projection could be wildly off, considering the drama in China, and could drop by around 15 percent by some estimates. Steph’s play has helped revolutionize the NBA. The 2021 class meanwhile is very deep, and also headlined by a perennial MVP candidate. Figures are via Spotrac and include extensions that have not yet kicked in. But that would also drop the cap next year, and therefore drop Pascal’s salary, and drop the values of the minimum salaries, and the rookie scale deals, and the max salaries for any free agents that summer, and so on. As as been reported, Pascal Siakam is set to sign a $130 million maximum salary extension to stay in Toronto for the next four years, a contract that starts after this coming season. The second chart shows the maximum salaries for a player signing with a new team. They all happen to be guys who just signed max deals off of their rookie deals. Here’s what we’ve learned from the team so far. He can make a three from anywhere, and that’s how he has won two MVPs and three NBA titles. Hey, another of Durant’s former teammates! All in the Raptors would lose out on about $8 million of that $18 million in cap room they are projected to have now. In a way, this deal kind of feels like a steal as well. For now, we’re basing our maximum-salary estimates on a 3% increase from this year’s $109,140,000 salary cap, since the NBA is facing probable revenue losses in 2020-21 and seems unlikely to bump the cap too substantially next season. The Blazer is making an average of $44 million per season. Sign up now ▸, Related slideshow: The 25 highest-paid NBA players (Provided by Yardbarker), Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Sneezed on, cussed at, ignored: Airline workers battle mask resistance with scant government backup, Senate overrides Donald Trump's veto of defense spending bill. One time he scored 37 points…in one quarter. According to the NBA, the cap will increase by at least 3% per year and no more than 10% per year for the remainder of the current collective bargaining agreement. A player’s maximum salary is generally determined by his years of NBA experience, so there’s a wide gap between potential earnings for younger and older players. Lillard is deserving of it. Toronto's entire appeal is based on … His first full season in Detroit went really well, as he averaged 24.5 points per game. Mitchell just made his first All-Star team in 2020, and it likely won't be his last. He's a dynamic scorer who has averaged over 20 points per contest in all four seasons of his career. Cleveland Cavaliers Receive: Julius Randle ($18.9M), Frank Ntilikina ($6.1M), DET 2021 2nd Round Pick (via NYK), CHA 2021 2nd Round Pick (via NYK) This would be the best thing that could happen to the New York Knicks this offseason. The real concern for the Raptors was not summer 2020, but summer 2021. Six of those extensions – belonging to Giannis Antetokounmpo, Paul George, Jayson Tatum, Donovan Mitchell, Bam Adebayo and De’Aaron Fox – have been maximum-salary deals. A second-round pick who was once an afterthought in a trade, he’s turned into one of the best players in the league. They’ll want a 7-9 year veteran (30 percent of the cap), as those players will be unrestricted free agents, and won’t have a prior team that can match any offer. Emailed daily. Yes, Simmons can’t shoot. Then he took over the offseason by signing with the Clippers and getting Paul George to join him. Subscribe to Stathead , the set of tools used by the pros, to unearth this and other interesting factoids. In his third season in the league, the man known as Bam turned himself into a point forward, averaging a double-double on points and rebounds while also contributing five assists per game. That leaves the Raptors with $18.38 million in cap room to spend on one more player, or a little more than that if they want to split it up between multiple players. Curry is the first player on this list averaging over $40 million a season. PG, who will make $34 million this year, signed his deal with the Thunder but has since been traded to the Clippers (at Kawhi Leonard’s behest). After all, he’s 35 and won’t be a free agent until the summer of 2022. And in a cap crunch world where the cap is suddenly dropping, that’s still a little over the MLE and might be able to keep them one key piece if the market is crunched enough. He will make $35 million this season. He’s never been an All-Star and has averaged 20 points per game only once in his career. Pascal’s salary would drop by $4.7 million. There's two years left on that extension, which paying him an average of almost $36 million. For players with 10 or more years of experience, it’s 35%. Further to that, let’s now re-examine that scenario we discussed earlier where 15 percent of revenues just disappear and the cap drops by 15 percent to match those lost dollars. OG Anunoby, F - under team control through 2020-21. Riley working his magic! This was a deal that made sense for both sides from a risk reduction perspective. Pascal Siakam, F - under team control through 2019-20. If his signing salary was 30 percent instead of 25 percent, then his salary in 2021 would have been $37.6 million — a full $6.3 million more than he is currently lined up for. It would be difficult to add much 2021-22 salary and still keep all of this alive if the cap stays flat. It’s not like the Hornets are ever on TV. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Leaving them with $10 million. Sure, that’s because Giannis is on his rookie deal still, and there are questions if the Bucks will be able to afford to re-sign him. Salary Wizard; Career Rescue; ... 2021 could be a huge year for space. Payroll Table Salary ; Player Age 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 Signed Using Guaranteed; Kyle Lowry: 34: $30,000,000: Bird Rights: $30,000,000: Pascal Siakam There was no late collapse to round out 2020, as the Raptors trounced New York in the fourth quarter to get their first win. That’s what happens when you are maybe the best shooter in NBA history. Curry is not a stalwart on that end, but Thompson has made the All-Defense Second Team once. See the highest and lowest player salaries in the NBA on ESPN.com Beyond Siakam’s star-in-the-making talent, his contract extension actually represents a different kind of good decision by the Raptors. This was in spite of the fact that — shield your eyes, Curry fans — he was the best player on those Golden State teams. And there is the rub for Pascal. If he makes the top two, or wins MVP, he gets his 30 percent. He’s an elite passer who can defend all five positions. Alarms are ringing, but the Raptors have dominated their recent history against the Knicks. Pascal Siakam’s extension is a safe bet for Toronto, Five thoughts on last night: Raptors 100, Knicks 83. Tatum and Mitchell just have to make any All-NBA Team to bump the total projected value of their extensions from $163M to $195.6M, but Fox would have to make All-NBA First Team and Adebayo would have to win an MVP Award. Siakam and Norman Powell are the only Raptors currently under guaranteed contracts for the 2021-22 season. That’s a much more unlikely scenario. 17h ago. With all due respect to Harris, a fine player, he’s a perfect example of a guy hitting the market at the right time. Let’s review all the numbers. But back to the impact of potentially giving Siakam that more likely opportunity to get 30 percent next summer. The did hold on to Harris though, which meant he got a deal worth a whopping $36 million per season. Here's what's to come from NASA, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos. In fact, in his rookie season he spent time in the G League. Durant and Curry were teammates for a minute there, and Durant got a couple of rings. That means the Raptors are looking at $55.28 million in cap room, if they sign a single free agent. Well, there is a similar rule for players who are getting their rookie deal extensions (like Pascal). He just signed a brand-new extension with a team that owned his Bird rights, which means Portland could pay him more money than any team could pay a player previously. He’s a great shooter and a perfect foil to Steph Curry. Chris Boucher, F - under team control through 2019-20. And is frankly very straightforward. Anyway, that $43 million max is for a 10+ year veteran, not likely the sort of player the Raptors would target to partner with Siakam. When the NBA confirmed its salary cap data for the 2020-21 season on Nov. 10, the league also updated its cap estimates for future seasons. Post #82 » by casual_raps_fan » Wed Dec 2, 2020 1:12 am . Each of those four players has Rose Rule language in his contract, however, and could move up to the 30% max column (“7-9 years”) if certain criteria are met. These are the most lucrative NBA contracts based on average annual value. That fifth year (or, if the starting point is three years plus a fourth year player option, locking in the fourth year) is what the team wants. Can they get into the win column before 2020 is up? If the cap increases by 10%, the four-year values for these maximum-salary contracts would increase to approximately $129.1M (25%), $154.9M (30%) and $180.7M (35%). Players as good as Butler rarely move around that much. Fox is known for his speed, and the Kings will be hoping the speed stays with him as he gets older. The 'Highest-paid player on every NBA team' quiz. He signed a $137-million contract extension last year. So you can see why the Raptors would not want to risk that outcome unless he’s legitimately an MVP candidate or close to it at that point. Meanwhile, there’s upside too; maybe Siakam proves he can’t quite carry the load the Raptors are going to give him this year, and they’ve agreed to pay him less. The Heat know how to find a gem in the NBA Draft. Which is exactly what happened with the Ben Simmons and Jamal Murray deals — they signed full 5-year extensions for $170 million dollars — but if they make an All-NBA team this year, they will actually end up getting over $200 million over the length of their deals. Nobody would have seen this coming when Siakam was drafted by the Raptors. And yet, the Rockets were willing to take him on (plus a draft pick) in exchange for Russell Westbrook. That 30 percent max is projected at $36.9 million. ... does trading Siakam (and Powell for salary matching purposes) for Harden make the Raptors … Some people said Paul’s contract is an albatross. We haven't seen Siakam play consistently elite defense for over a year now. If Victor Oladipo – or another veteran with between seven and nine years of NBA experience – wants to change teams in 2021, he would be able to sign a four-year contract worth up to a projected $145M. But nonetheless, there is a rule (called the fifth year maximum salary criteria) that allows teams to offer their players seeking rookie deal extensions or to re-sign in restricted free agency up to 30 percent of the cap instead of just 25 percent. The max is not some status symbol in the NBA for the very best players. We now arrive at the highest-paid player in the NBA. Raptors notch first win, beat Knicks 100-83. Raptors forward Pascal Siakam reflects on his miserable playoff performance and the mental toll it took on him. Now he has the richest deal in the league. Harden’s basketball philosophy melded perfectly with Houston's, but will that still be true with a new head coach and GM in place? The point of outlining it like that is that if you sign more players with that cap space, you have fewer of those roster slot cap holds eating up your usable space — meaning if you split that cap space between two players, you can take a $1 million hold off the books, giving you $1 million in extra cap room to split between them. The Raptors current salary cap situation. So, instead of making any All-NBA team (the third team is what Pascal has a solid chance at), a team can say the player needs to make the top two All-NBA teams or win MVP to get that raise. Wall has not returned to the court since December 2018, but he’s still getting paid a ton of cash, nearly $43 million. Hey, he's only 22, so he'll still be in his prime when this deal is over. Including the draft picks, that puts Toronto’s committed salary (assuming those contracts and cap holds listed above are kept) at $67.72 million. And players can sign extensions for 30 percent of the cap on the condition they make the team in the upcoming season (which will default to 25 percent if they don’t). It hasn’t worked quite like they expected so far, but that’s the reasoning. Connect with friends faster than ever with the new Facebook app. Using Tuesday night’s game against the Sixers, let’s look into what’s going on. So even in that cap crunch scenario, with Pascal’s salary reduced accordingly, the risk associated with that typical 30 percent max salary criteria was just not worth it for the Raptors. On the other hand, who cares? Raptors 2021 Salary Cap Update The Raptors have a lot of players whose contracts either end, or can be be declined, prior to the start of the 2021 offseason. The Raptors could clear two max salary spots with ease by saying goodbye to Ibaka, Gasol and Lowry before the summer of 2021, with Antetokounmpo looming as … Chicago will send San Diego payments of $500,000 on the first day of each month from April through September in 2021, offsetting a portion of Darvish's $22 million salary. An updated look at the Toronto Raptors 2021 salary cap table, including team cap space, dead cap figures, and complete breakdowns of player cap hits, salaries, and bonuses. The Raptors ended 2021 on a high note, but there is still much to improve upon after a 1-3 start to the season. Antetokounmpo fits that bill, so his deal is worth a projected $228.2M. And yet he was an All-Star in his last three seasons with the Hornets and then did it again in his first season with the Celtics, his current team. Because those extensions won’t go into effect until the 2021-22 season and the NBA won’t finalize the ’21-22 salary cap until next summer, we can only ballpark what next year’s maximum-salary contracts will look like based on the league’s latest cap estimates. Customize your email to get the latest news on your favorite sports, teams and schools. January 1, 2021 January 1, 2021. There have been murmurs of Harden's desire to be traded, but for now he is in Houston on a four-year, $171-million contract. And Pascal’s max is the cheapest tier of maximum salary, and locks him up through his peak years. He signed a five-year extension last year worth $177 million. There is a reason he’s basically been drummed out of two towns, and he hasn’t exactly gotten along great with his teammates in Brooklyn. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the salary-cap projection for 2021-22 was $125 million. It seems like he's fitting in for once, and he led Miami to the NBA Finals in the bubble. 7-9 years is 30 percent, and 10+ years is 35 percent. While the Kings haven't won much with Fox as their starting point guard, he just averaged over 20 points per game for the first time in his career. Playing in Charlotte, Walker was often overlooked. The trade-off with signing Pascal now versus later hasn’t been about 2020 cap space since the Raptors decided to stay competitive as they bridge to the more interesting 2021 summer. He will earn around $33 million on average through the rest of his deal. Plus, he’s normalized “load management” and yet he’s still getting over $34 million per season. Now he's won a ring in the purple and gold and has seen his average annual value boosted up to a little under $43 million. It’s a huge pay difference coming earlier in a player’s career and a way to hold onto drafted talent even longer than the restricted free agency system allows. He’s led the league in points per game the last three seasons, including averaging a staggering 36.1 points per game last year. It takes money to afford a veteran who is a future Hall of Famer. But keep in mind, this is a projected cap where the Mid-Level Exception (MLE), whereby such elites as C.J. Still, there will always be somebody to tolerate Irving given his ability. However, in his third season he won Most Improved Player, and some thought he could arguably win it again in 2020 based on how he’s turned himself into one of the best players in the NBA. Leonard was great, and he helped the Raptors win their first title. So let’s set that aside for one max salary signing and clear off a $1 million cap hold. There are also cap holds for guys like Stanley Johnson ($4.9 million) and Patrick McCaw ($7.6 million) but this is my article and I’m not envisioning either on the Raptors two years from now. 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