Only way Brown is worth 23m per year is if he has a year like Siakam had with the Raptors last season.
23m per year for 13 or 14 points per game is way too much.
Just look at what happened to the Wiz after the Nets gave Otto Porter an offer sheet worth 106m for 4 years.
The Wiz were forced to match because they thought they had something special in Porter.
In the end the Wiz had a hard time trading Porter.
A Siakam level player who's 23 years old is absolutely worth that Simmons/Murray max. 23M per year is for a 22-23 year old player who's a role player that's mostly developed but still has a bit of room for growth to possibly reach fringe stardom. Jaylen is already a high impact role player who has a pretty long way to go in terms of polish and BBIQ but has shown flashes of being able to develop that full package, and to me 23M will get laughed off by him and his agent.
Jaylen has no agent, he represents himself.
I agree with you that he will just laugh off that offer of 23m per year.
The free-agent class for next summer is weak, so Jaylen can easily get that kind of money from other teams.
That's why I keep saying that Jaylen has until January or February to prove he's worth keeping.
If not then Ainge will trade him because if Ainge will wait next summer, the Celts will lose Brown for nothing if a team offers Brown the max.
And no matter how many times you keep saying it....
and saying it....
and saying it ...
and saying it....
and saying it, it doesn't make it any more true. Jaylen is worth keeping regardless of what he does this year. Even if all he does is what he did last year, you keep him.
His value is probably already set at higher than Marcus Smart money, at a minimum. If he has just a good year and shows some further signs of development, he is minimum $20 million a year. If he thrived in a larger role and really develops, he is a max player. Let him and the market set his value.
And no matter what happens there is no reason financially to move him. This team is worth billions. They make tons of profit every year. If they have to pay some luxury tax, it's no big deal. It won't be for a tens of millions. They won't be a repeater. And....it wouldn't be hard to get under the cap elsewhere, depending on draft picks if they didn't want to pay the luxury tax.