Don’t know that we had a choice really. Hopefully Brown proves to be worth it.
IDK, man.
If we are willing to shell that for Jaylen, wouldn't it be better if we just have him test the RFA market and match any offer?
A bad/mediocre team with cap space would have offered him max in all likelihood.
In which case, we should just match. If we are willing to go $115 million, surely we can go for the max if it comes to that.
The flip side, is if the market is soft on him, we could get him for his fair value.
IDK. I mean, I'm stoked that we are keeping Jaylen, but man, I think we could have played the negotiations better.
It seems like a lot I know.
But if he gets a max offer then we are at 170 for 5 right? So there is some savings if DA really thinks that Jaylen was going to get a full 5 year max after this year.
well really you are comparing the first 4 years. If the Celtics waited till next offseason the max they could offer (at the current projected cap number) would have been 130/4.
oh ok, I didn't know it would only be 4 years max if another team offered in RFA...
so still saving a little bit, 3.75 million a year.
This is not quite correct.
If Brown and the Celtics had waited for him to reach Restricted Free Agency next Summer, then the most any _other_ team could have offered him would have been a 4 year deal with a max Base Year Compensation of 25% of the salary cap and 5% x BYC raises. With a cap estimate of 116M, that would be a total package of 120M over 4 years.
But the Celtics themselves still could have offered a 5 year, 25% Max with 8% raises. That would be a 154M package over 5 years.
All those numbers are moot now, of course.
I don't know where you are getting those numbers, at the 116 million cap for the Celtics a five year max would have been 5/170. A four year max 130. And for anyone else a 4 year max would have been 125.
Example 4 year max:
year one: 29
year two: 31.32
year three: 33.82
year four: 36.53
total: just over 130 million
let:
Base Year Compensation = BYC = 25% * 116M = 29M
Non-Bird raise = nbr = .05*29 = 1.45M
So:
year 1 = BYC = 29M
year 2 = 29M + 1.45M = 30.45M
year 3 = 30.45M + 1.45M = 31.90M
year 4 = 31.90M + 1.45M = 33.35M
Total = 124.7M
For a Bird-rights contract, change the raise percentage to .08% of BYC, or 2.32M and set the max years to 5.
The mistake most make is that the raises each year are not compounded. The raise is calculated as a percentage of the BYC and then added on each year. Note - these are just the parameters around max raises in a contract. A contract can also give smaller raises or even declines (though the percentage decline is also limited to be by the same percentage of BYC).