If Champagnie is worth that much I wonder how much Rui is going to get on the open market.

Am I wrong for thinking they have to keep him?

I’d expect his minutes to be split between Bryant and Harper.

I see him like Max Strus and Gabe Vincent. Streaky shooters that had good postseasons runs where they found their footing in a good system. However it may not be replicable performances with other teams.

If you’re the Spurs you need to let him ride out his contract unless he takes 10-15 mil per year lol

Paying $25M to guys like Julian Champagnie is how you close your championship window.

One of their young core is gonna get overpaid for sure

I would love Hollinger to go and point out which teams are going to use their cap space in 2027 to pay Julian 20mill annually with 100million guaranteed, genuinely.

Teams like Memphis, Chicago and Brooklyn are not going to go out and use the significant portion of their cap space to sign Julian Champagnie next year.

I feel like NBA media and fans forget the ONLY mechanisms available for over-the-cap teams to get free agents are the MLE and a sign-and-trade. The spurs will be looking at negotiations to get him at a number slightly above market price which will be the 15m AAV Mid level exception.

champagnie gives the knicks nightmares. if they let him go they giving us relief.

Lol, no chance. Their isn’t a single team that will pay him that much. He is a 3 point specialist that can rebound decently. His defense is okay and is a great glue guy, but no chance for that kind of money. He will get $15 mil a year or under

I am once again asking agents to talk about contracts as a % of the cap now that its exploded so much.

20 mil seems high, 12% of the cap seems more reasonable.

Good job by champagnies agent.. spurs have a surplus of cheap wings in their roster and it is unlikely they will able to get rid of fox. If they are not careful, they will find themselves in 2nd apron very quickly and spurs FO will not do that.

That’s an underpay, he’ll get more than that on the open market

No way. We love champ but that will be a ridiculous overpay. Whoever gives him that will regret it.

Way too much term and money. Yes, Spurs should do decline for extension but should go for ⁴⁸⁄₄ range money. They have more leverage than Champs, he is in no position to risk playing next season for 3M, it would be stupid financial decision.

He bags 50 mil, his salary next season goes for 3M to 18M or whatever 8% decline allows. Win - win.

100ms for julian is crazy. i fw him but wow

Maybe I don’t know how much players are worth anymore or the amount players have gotten paid went up so much recently my brain can’t keep up with it. 100 million seems crazy for someone with his role.

Jumping gyros lmao

We can’t pay him 100 mil if someone else wants to we will just have to plug the hole with Carter Bryant or other cheaper vets and draft picks. Julian has been great for us but he’s not worth that kind of money we already fucked up our books with Fox we can’t further dig a hole here with another bad deal.

He’s not worth that much. NYK specifically target him on defense.

He’s absolutely not getting 20min/year lol what are we doing here. Will be around the MLE

might be the most expensive champagne in history

Just for the spurs to let Fox stay in the game bricking shot after shot.

I’d rather have three Champs than one Fox

Nah they can let him walk they have too much hooper on this team as it is, and you can see the logjam in player time of possession during games.

Bye bye

bring him home

He ain’t worth THAT much

Lmfao after how he performed? Let his ass walk

He averaged 11 points and 6 rebounds as a starter this season, and he’s a streaky shooter so I’m not sure if that warrants that much money.

Well deserved, but god damn lol. We’ll need to offload Fox in his last two years.

Solid starters are gonna get 20mil+ now. This is the norm.

Lol he ain’t worth that much. Shit is crazy now. You got a role player getting $100M. No wonder Mark Cuban and Jeannie Buss sold their marquee teams.

My shitpost trade idea - Fox to Minny for Randle and DDV? Don’t know if two contenders in the same conference will want to help each other like that, but I could see it benefitting both parties.

Spurs: Harper / Vassell / Castle / Randle / Wemby

Minny: Fox / Ant / McDaniels / Reid / Gobert

His contract is still good at the number.

Didnt we waive him

5yr 100 million is role player money fr fr. This is about on par. 20M per year. Superstars are making 60M a year. Where are the players that’s making 30-35 million a year? It’s either role player money or superstar money.

Worth every pagnie

This dude is about to get paid, he was insane from beyond the 3 point line, some of those shots he hit were just pure. Honestly probably one of the biggest reasons why the Spurs were able to get 1 win.

Spurs need to take a long look and figure out what to do with Champagnie, Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell. There is no reason for them to have all three making between $18 and 28M each. They need to pick one and trade the other two.

They don’t offer them anything that warrants the price tag. Their best perimeter players and perimeter defenders are Castle Fox and Harper. What they need to do is put Harper in the starting lineup, find a 4, and pick one of Johnson, Champagnie, and Harper.

Starters: Fox/Castle/Harper/Wemby + a good 4 would be the best starting lineup in the NBA.

$20M is not outrageous, but with the roster and cap sheet you can’t sign him to a 5 year deal. Just too much risk of injury or poor play over that span turning that contract sour. And the hope is that Carter Bryant can take over that starting PF role eventually. Having Champ on a 5 year contract really hinders that.

But we they still need him. His 3 point shooting totally unlocked the offense in the second half of the season. Just too risky to let him walk.

It should be a re-negotiate and extension for 3 years between $50-60M. The money can work - 2 years from now Fox could be gone, and Carter Bryant will be coming into his own. That contract would be manageable to move if need be.

I know the number looks high but 20m per is average NBA starter money at this point, especially for a team looking to contend. If the Spurs don’t want to pay him some team will be more than happy to.

In the 2nd apron era, you can’t pay everyone unless you have the pockets to absorb serious penalties in the hundreds of millions.

Spurs will not be able to keep everyone. OKC neither. You get two max in 2nd apron era.

I think it’s a flaw in the system. You should be able to keep all the players you drafted/developed without penalties. The fans want that.

I thought they were going to either keep him at 3 mil or maybe extend him at 10-15 mil a year for like two-three seasons max, toss in a player option to make him really feel in control.

But 100 mil? 5 years or not I wasn’t thinking that at all not yet anyway.

There’s no telling what happens next season with his numbers.

Josh Giddey is getting 20 mil a year, if you’re telling me Champagnie deserves nearly the same contract as it stands now then idk what to really tell you.

They have like two years before their cap is completely strained..

There’s gotta be some barriers to getting $20 million a year for certain roles.

Being a below 6’10 and not being able to dribble or drive in a straight line without losing the ball should cap you to between \(15 million to \)18 million

Better unload that fox contract to secure good players.

Think 5 years is too long for him. 3 at a max I would think 

Spurs cap sheet is going to get interesting pretty quickly