Willy Hernangomez‘s new three-year contract with the Pelicans will be fully guaranteed for the first two years with a team option for year three, according to Andrew Lopez of ESPN (Twitter link).
Lopez also provides the year-by-year breakdown of Hernangomez’s new deal. The Pelicans held the big man’s Non-Bird rights, giving them the ability to offer a starting salary worth 120% of his $1,939,350 minimum salary. That means Hernangomez will earn $2,327,220 in 2021/22, with 5% annual raises on that amount. The three-year contract will be worth about $7.33MM in total.
Here’s more on the Pelicans:
- Herb Jones‘ three-year contract with the Pelicans will be worth more than the minimum for the first two seasons, according to Lopez, who tweets that the No. 35 pick will earn $1.7MM in 2021/22 and $1.785MM in ’22/23. Both of those amounts will be fully guaranteed, followed by a minimum-salary ($1.836MM) team option in ’23/24. New Orleans is using a small part of its mid-level exception on Jones.
- William Guillory of The Athletic checks in on the Pelicans who have turned heads at the Las Vegas Summer League, writing that Trey Murphy and Naji Marshall look capable of emerging as regular rotation players on the wing. New head coach Willie Green has also done a good job emphasizing ball movement and defensive activity, according to Guillory, who says those are two areas the team needs to improve in 2021/22.
- After reaching a deal with restricted free agent Josh Hart, the Pelicans look like they’ll be just about finished with their offseason business, writes Christian Clark of NOLA.com. The team will have 15 players on guaranteed contracts and will have to rely heavily on internal growth from its young players in order to compete for a playoff spot in 2021/22.
If I’m Zion, I have to be pretty disappointed in the Pelicans efforts to surround him with a competitive team.
I mean, they’ll be a fiesty bunch, that won’t he an easy win for their opponents, but I just can’t see them making the play-in, much less the playoffs
Zion needs to have a conversation with Kevin Garnett about KG’s time with the Timberpuppies !!
Zion needs to be surrounded with shooters, just like the Bucks did with Giannis. If he was in the league 20 years ago, then Zion might have been as successful as Shaq, but players like him are quickly becoming obsolete.
He is not obsolete. He is just unlucky to be on a bad team.
The bucks don’t have consistent shooters just a great coach and great defense, that’s the step the Pelicans are taking
Christian Clark of NOLA.com say we are done with adding players so does this mean we’re not pursuing Lauri Markkanen anymore?
Too many players on the roster