The financial implications of giving a 'star' player a max contract may loom larger than before - as evidenced by the Hawks trading Dejounte Murray
The Atlanta Hawks trading Dejounte Murray this off-season was an eventuality that needed to happen. Last season proved that the fit between Murray and Young simply did not work well on the court. Both proved individually capable of powering the offense but struggled to find that same flow as a duo.
"The Hawks traded Dejounte Murray for several reasons, but one of them, as Brian Windhorst noted on his Hoop Collective Podcast, was that there just wasn't value available for Trae Young and Atlanta had to move one of their guards. Young, aside from being a poor defender and tricky offensive fit on many teams, is notably on a 30% max rather than a 25% max because he met the Rose Rule criteria prior to his rookie extension kicking in.
The player was named to an All-NBA team in the most recent season, or in two of the past three seasons. "And this is where we see a major divergence from CBAs past, because that openness used to extend pretty comfortably to the next two max contract tiers as well so long as the player was arbitrarily deemed max-caliber. Zach LaVine got a no-brainer five-year max. Bradley Beal got a five-year max with a no-trade clause.
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