Pacers: Ranking Domantas Sabonis among other 2019 rookie extensions
By Josh Wilson
Jamal Murray’s max deal is pretty big for a team’s second-best player
Five years, 25% max salary projected $168,200,000 (33,640,000 per year)
Only one player that got a max salary extension this summer didn’t make the All-Star game this season, and that would be Jamal Murray.
Disadvantaged in that regard in part because his team’s offense is so unconventional with Nikola Jokic leading the team in passes, Murray missed on the All-Star game with per-game averages of 18.8 points, 3.9 rebounds, and 4.8 assists per game.
He’s shooting 34.5 percent from beyond the arc and 45.5 percent from the field.
Murray has the fourth-best PER of extended rookie-scale contracts from this summer, but I don’t see the upside and the afforded role with the Nuggets to justify a max contract.
To me, this feels like an overpay so far, but I can see some potential here. It might take some time to appreciate, but I could see this contract going either way for the Nuggets.