Josh Giddey knows he’s pumped up his value with his strong play this season. The Bulls guard will enter restricted free agency this summer and admitted to the Chicago Sun-Times’ Joe Cowley that he’s wondering how it will play out.
‘‘I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t thinking about it,’’ Giddey said. ‘‘Every player in the league thinks about it, but I don’t let it impact what I do on the floor. I don’t come out here with any preconceived ideas of how I want to play or the numbers I want to put up to earn X amount of dollars or whatever it may be.’’
The Bulls were unable to come to a rookie scale extension agreement with Giddey after acquiring him from the Thunder last offseason. Giddey and his representatives indicated at that time they were looking to match Magic guard Jalen Suggs’ extension of $30MM per year for five years, Cowley confirms. The Bulls will have the ability to match if Giddey signs an offer sheet this summer.
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- One of the things Giddey has improved upon is his long-range shooting, Cowley notes. The fourth-year guard has made 37% of his 3-point attempts, up from 33.7% in his last season with Oklahoma City. He knocked down all three of his attempts in the blowout victory over Philadelphia on Monday, improving his percentage to a whopping 52.2% this month. “Obviously, you feel good when shots start falling, and it can have a snowball effect. That’s where I’m probably at right now,” he said.
- Starting center Nikola Vucevic is listed as doubtful to play against the Clippers on Wednesday due to right calf tightness, K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Sports Network tweets. Guard Ayo Dosunmu is questionable due to a left shoulder subluxation.
- Lonzo Ball is not listed on the injury report. That was a positive development, considering he departed Monday’s game early due to a head laceration, the team tweets.
That trade has a real chance to be a steal for Bulls. Giddey game is still growing
Yup, still jus 22. Trade also might age well given Carusos extension (I love AC but I can see his career taking a Marcus Smart turn given the miles on his body)
The thing with Giddey is, will the bulls use him the right way? They need to commit to him as full time PG and get some legit wings around him. I get that it’s making do with a unbalanced roster rn but Coby/Ayo/Zo all around him at once doesn’t fit that bill
Love AC as well as a Laker fan Ben but agree that new ext was a YIKES!
I feel bad for Bulls fans. What a mess this roster is
Just stay away from those underage girls! This isn’t backwater Oklahoma where they have bizarre laws.
Overblown, if u look into Josh’s situation it was far from being the Diddy-ness everyone likes to think it was
I keep looking for the article that says he was convicted of a crime. Funny but I can’t find it. So I guess until he is convicted people should just let it go. Or at least keep their opinions to themselves. Because no young girl ever lied about her age to hook up with an NBA player. You never hear about a thing like that happening, He said sarcastically.
Uncle Mike – it is so gross that you absolve him in one breath then admit you think they slept together. Its also gross your conscience needs a crimimal conviction to hide behind.
Ben – If your bar is “not as bad as Diddy” then why bother having one?
That’s not my bar, just referencing what I’ve seen ppl compare him to. It’s a lot of hullabaloo about relatively nothing. No date rape, breach of consent, etc , still a mistake but he’s not some predator
Mike, Karl Malone was never convicted. Should we let that go too?
Where exactly does it say in my post that anybody slept with anybody? I don’t know what really happened any more than you do. My point is that until you do, And he was obviously not prosecuted or convicted of anything, You might want to shut up about it. So why not try that. Or got to law school and figure that out. That’s my point.
Youre not misunderstood youre just misguided and wrong. And youre weird about it too.
30m a year is too much imo. Defense isn’t there and a one-year sample size of his shooting is hard to count on. (Although the year-to-year growth is encouraging so far)
5 yrs 110 would be more fair , but given Karnisovas’ brain power I’m expecting they just throw him the 150
Agreed. Sure wouldn’t want to give Giddey a five year $30 million dollar contract all guaranteed.
4 years in the league and his numbers are the exact same. He is who he is. He’s not worth more than 10-15 million a year.
reasonable would be $20 mil
If he is on a contending team (which he was up until this year) he would be a 6th man. I know his defensive woes aside but the guy actually has shown up and put in the effort and also been better since the Lavine trade. I still wouldn’t pay him anything north of $15-18M AAV for 4 years though. I hope AKME doesn’t view the last 5-10 games as reward him with a 5/100M deal. He is still growing as a shooter, but being a playmaker he’s already there. They need the right guys around him to be effective, he’s not a franchise player or a top 3 player on a contender but he can be one of the best supporting players in the league.