Tristan Thompson and the Cavaliers were reportedly near a five-year, $80 million contract. Then things broke down and haven’t progressed since. So what happened? Well it turns out that Tristan Thompson wants MORE money!
via Basketball Insiders:
Thompson and the Cavaliers had reached an agreement early in free agency that was believed to have been centered on a five-year deal worth some $80 million. The problem with doing a deal at that number is that virtually everyone in Thompson’s talent range got substantially more, most receiving the NBA maximum salary, some for less years, but most for the same year one dollar amount.
Thompson’s camp pulled back from the $80 million number, wanting the Cavs to step up with more based on what virtually everyone else in Thompson’s peer range got.
Here’s how much other free agents in the tier will get annually, using data from Basketball Insiders:
- Enes Kanter: $17,515,007 (four years, $70,060,028)
- Robin Lopez: $13,503,875 (four years, $54,015,500)
- Tyson Chandler: $13,000,000 (four years, $52,000,000)
- Thaddeus Young: $12,500,000 (four years, $50,000,000)
- Amir Johnson: $12,000,000 (two years, $24,000,000)
- Omer Asik: $10,595,505 (five years, $52,977,525)
- Kosta Koufos: $8,219,750 (four years, $32,879,000)
- Ed Davis: $6,666,667 (three years, $20,000,000)
- Brandan Wright: $5,709,880 (three years, $17,129,640)
- Jordan Hill: $4,000,000 (one year, $4,000,000)
Thompson might think he’s in the same group as Monroe (three-year max contract) and Green (five years, $82 million), but he’s not as good as those two. The Cavaliers would be pretty insane to pay him more than $80 million but he does have leverage over them in that he shares an agent with LeBron James and they want to keep LeBron happy. Also If he takes the qualifying offer and leaves next summer, the Cavaliers won’t have the cap flexibility to find a comparable replacement. But he would have to find a team willing to pay him more and sign him to an offer sheet to get the Cavs to match. We’ll see what happens.
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This guy is crazy he’s oh okay player but he can’t score I mean he’s good defensively and all sensibly expecially but he’s not worth the money is trying to get these athletes are getting ridiculous I mean come on almost a hundred million dollars over 5 years and you’re turning it down what the hell does this guy think he is and I’m a Cavs fan
Pay him he’s young and can only get better…If you look at what some teams are paying older players at the end of their career’s… He’s right…
He can score and he has excellent defense but i still dont agree wit him turning down that deal just bc other players getting more thats greedy the role he gon play on the clav’s lineup while he wit the clav’s makes that a excellent deal but thompson got game he can be a star wit work and patciate he young still need to adjust first and play his role on the team his money gon come later wen he dovelope more.
This guys crazy turning down that deal….any player that’s gonna hold a team hostage like that is a bum…..this guys not even a elite player to be acting like this….he’s lucky they offered him that much in the first place….it’s crazy how much this divas get payed to play basketball smh
He is an idiot . He will not get more than that anywhere. Wow. U maybe a good player but GREED is not good . Creep before u walk .