Anthony Davis agrees to a five-year, $145 million max extension with New Orleans

[BudweiserCeltic]

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
New Orleans star Anthony Davis has agreed to a five-year, $145 million maximum contract extension, league source tells Yahoo Sports.

[hwangjini_1]

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
New Orleans star Anthony Davis has agreed to a five-year, $145 million maximum contract extension, league source tells Yahoo Sports.

looks as if he will have one well fed family. 

[JOMVP]

Good for the NewOrleans franchise keeping their guy around for awhile.

[cltc5]

Well their goes our big free agent catch.  Come on danny wake up! Lol

[saltlover]

There'd been rumors he would look around, but those, obviously, proved very false.

Which isn't too surprising.  A 5-year max deal with max raises at the post-cap-spike 30% salary level was the best he was going to do, unless he wanted to risk that the max salary would be raised during the next CBA negotiations in two years.

[BudweiserCeltic]

I don't know what Butler will be offered, but there's simply a lot of money on the table for this guys to really pass up on their first chance for a big contract. Too much risk.

[manl_lui]

money talks

someone correct me if I am wrong but didn't someone ask Davis a year or two ago if he believed in the Pelicans, and he said he didn't know (paraphrasing)

[saltlover]

I don't know what Butler will be offered, but there's simply a lot of money on the table for this guys to really pass up on their first chance for a big contract. Too much risk.

Butler was already extended a maximum qualifying offer by the Bulls, which is essentially a max contract offer for 5 years, with the added stipulation that any deal he signs this season with any team must be at least 3 years long (so he can't sign a short deal and then try free agency again).

[SCeltic34]

Happy for AD and the Pelicans.  Small market teams need superstars too.

[BudweiserCeltic]

I don't know what Butler will be offered, but there's simply a lot of money on the table for this guys to really pass up on their first chance for a big contract. Too much risk.

Butler was already extended a maximum qualifying offer by the Bulls, which is essentially a max contract offer for 5 years, with the added stipulation that any deal he signs this season with any team must be at least 3 years long (so he can't sign a short deal and then try free agency again).

Right, I don't know how he would've left that on the table as many have speculated he might, even suggesting that he would take the 1 year QO. I just never saw that as a good strategy from him.

[Future Celtics Owner]

Its a good move financially but not so great if he wants to win titles. AD is the best player to start a team with, if you could let him pick a team that needed a 4; wow they would be unreal.

I have always thought of him as the next KG and wanted our team to be ready for when he hit the market, both financially and talent wise.

[e4e5sesame]

Why is Davis eligible for $145m/5yrs? ESPN is reporting that the Spurs offered a "max" contract of $90m/5yrs to Kawhi Leonard at midnight. I'm assuming this is the 0-6 year max of 25%.

As far as I'm aware, the exceptions to the 0-6 year max are:

• 2 or more All-NBA team selections
• 2 or more All-Star starts
• 1 or more MVP awards

Davis has one All-NBA team selection (first team in 2015) and two All-Star selections (2014 and 2015) but only 2015 was as a starter. He has never been MVP. So, according to the rules, he's not eligible for the exception. Why then is his max so much larger than Kawhi's? The only difference I can see is that Davis' contract starts in 2016 when the cap rises, but how can a one year offset be worth $55m?

[knuckleballer]

Why is Davis eligible for $145m/5yrs? ESPN is reporting that the Spurs offered a "max" contract of $90m/5yrs to Kawhi Leonard at midnight. I'm assuming this is the 0-6 year max of 25%.

As far as I'm aware, the exceptions to the 0-6 year max are:

• 2 or more All-NBA team selections
• 2 or more All-Star starts
• 1 or more MVP awards

Davis has one All-NBA team selection (first team in 2015) and two All-Star selections (2014 and 2015) but only 2015 was as a starter. He has never been MVP. So, according to the rules, he's not eligible for the exception. Why then is his max so much larger than Kawhi's? The only difference I can see is that Davis' contract starts in 2016 when the cap rises, but how can a one year offset be worth $55m?

"Because Davis was elected by the fans to start in last February's All-Star Game, and since he also earned All-NBA first-team honors, New Orleans will have the ability to include a provision in the deal that entitles Davis to start his max deal at 30 percent of the league's salary cap as opposed to 25 percent, provided he is an All-Star starter or earns All-NBA honors next season as well."

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13178518/2015-nba-free-agency-new-orleans-pelicans-not-pausing-make-anthony-davis-league-richest

[e4e5sesame]

Why is Davis eligible for $145m/5yrs? ESPN is reporting that the Spurs offered a "max" contract of $90m/5yrs to Kawhi Leonard at midnight. I'm assuming this is the 0-6 year max of 25%.

As far as I'm aware, the exceptions to the 0-6 year max are:

• 2 or more All-NBA team selections
• 2 or more All-Star starts
• 1 or more MVP awards

Davis has one All-NBA team selection (first team in 2015) and two All-Star selections (2014 and 2015) but only 2015 was as a starter. He has never been MVP. So, according to the rules, he's not eligible for the exception. Why then is his max so much larger than Kawhi's? The only difference I can see is that Davis' contract starts in 2016 when the cap rises, but how can a one year offset be worth $55m?

"Because Davis was elected by the fans to start in last February's All-Star Game, and since he also earned All-NBA first-team honors, New Orleans will have the ability to include a provision in the deal that entitles Davis to start his max deal at 30 percent of the league's salary cap as opposed to 25 percent, provided he is an All-Star starter or earns All-NBA honors next season as well."

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13178518/2015-nba-free-agency-new-orleans-pelicans-not-pausing-make-anthony-davis-league-richest

Thanks. 0 points to me for reading comprehension. 

As if Davis wasn't going to beast it next year anyway, now he has a $55m reason to leave any and all competition in his wake of devastation. Scary.

[Who]

Not surprising. A tad disappointing. Bad news for the league in general too. That team is badly run and AD is unlikely to be making any long runs in the playoffs any time soon despite his own immense individual talent.