Darkrozay

204 | 14 hours ago

Giving AD Max is a crazy deal

MrBigWaffles | Lakers

75 | 14 hours ago

Wouldn’t put it passed the wiz.

They gave Trae young a 4 year ext that’s gunna pay him 60M in his final year.

naqster | Wizards

70 | 14 hours ago

The difference is that Trae’s deal doesn’t really hurt their books long term because everyone else is on rookie deals and it doesn’t run into AJ’s next extension. A 4 year max for AD would not only overlap with AJ’s max but put the Wizards deep into the tax and approaching second apron territory even before extending him. Also, AD’s extension is 35% of the cap vs Trae’s 30%, which is significant.

MddlingAges | Knicks

29 | 13 hours ago

And AD is older.

bilyl | Warriors

3 | 12 hours ago

Why would they do a 4 year? They could do two or three.

Electric_jungle | Washington Bullets

8 | 12 hours ago

I strongly believe that we offered him something like a 2 or 3 year max (or maybe a bit less on money) with the caveat that he turned down his player option and AD held out for the full max. There was way too much smoke and there are deals out there that would not kill the wizards if all parties agree. But AD is looking at basically his last contract and thinks he can earn it. I kinda always doubted he would accept less, but was scared all the same.

Probably, the means we’re going to have to find him a trade partner by the deadline, or in the summer after he picks up his player option. But mostly I’m just glad it appears certain that AD will see the court without a new deal in place.

Agile_Variety_632 | Pelicans

3 | 11 hours ago

Is there even anyone willing to trade for AD at the deadline knowing he wants one last big extension?

Electric_jungle | Washington Bullets

4 | 11 hours ago

Well, the scenario is not exactly one any of us see as likely right? ADs current value around the league is .. He doesn’t see the court.

So if you picture playing up to the deadline with good health and as dominant as he still was two years ago? Yes, teams thinking he can take them over the top will appear. Depending on the team and players sent back, it might even clean up their books a little bit.

But I’m mostly just happy we get to see him play without an extension decided.

WorthChange858 | Lakers

-3 | 11 hours ago

*Sighs* Ah Wizards fans. Shame on thee. *sighs*

Electric_jungle | Washington Bullets

2 | 10 hours ago

I could not have prefaced my comment more, lol. This more than likely results on AD picking up his option and expiring with us due to being plagued with injuries. I get that. I think the upside of how he helps transform this team in that time is worth what it cost to get him.

Laggo | TOR

2 | 10 hours ago

I guess it’s hard to be optimistic as a Wizards fan, but there is definitely an outcome here where Trae/AJ/AD is a functional core that plays well of each other’s strengths and the team does well enough that both AD and the front office end up willing to put some chips on the table and buy into this for the next 2-3-4 years.

QuoteTraining5386 | Wizards

1 | 9 hours ago

didn’t you guys max Reaves lol?

bank_farter | Bucks

2 | 11 hours ago

Wizards hoping some team hires Niko Harrison soon.

MyTeamsSuck99 | Nets

1 | 11 hours ago

It basically ends any chance of contending on AJs rookie contract window.

CommiesFan1948

2 | 9 hours ago

Wrong but have fun with that

penny_stinks | Mavericks

36 | 14 hours ago

past*

c’mon, y’all.

LiterallyAntiqueBody

9 | 13 hours ago

I feel they could care less.

penny_stinks | Mavericks

4 | 13 hours ago

I’d bet you’re right. I comment to make myself feel better, not to fix someone else’s life.

LiterallyAntiqueBody

3 | 12 hours ago

I guess the joke went right over your head.

penny_stinks | Mavericks

2 | 11 hours ago

Lmao it kinda did… I thought it was a genuine mistake and just didn’t wanna get into it. But good one! Got me.

Jettisons | Wizards

27 | 14 hours ago

Nephews just keep parroting shit they don’t know about. The wiz still have flexibility unlike the Lakers who are locked in to reaves and kessler

RickyalldayTD | Lakers

3 | 10 hours ago

“Why he say fuck me for?” - Lakers

Enough-Thanks638

20 | 14 hours ago

They only gave him that becuase they wanted him to sit and not play while we tank. So that was his reward. If he didnt get that extension he would have snitched on us

Troll_Enthusiast | Wizards

5 | 13 hours ago

I seriously doubt that’s what happened

Enough-Thanks638

2 | 13 hours ago

That was just woj said i wasnt in the room he wasnt who really knows.

Troll_Enthusiast | Wizards

2 | 12 hours ago

Woj doesn’t have any inside sources in DC, he fluent really know anything about the team, just gibbing his opinion

Enough-Thanks638

1 | 12 hours ago

I think he has more sources than you, right? He could just be giving his opinion and saying nonsense; who knows. I think his opinion does make more sense to explain Trae Young’s extension than most others I heard

CodymartinSimp

14 | 14 hours ago

As bad as the Trae contract is for the level of player he is the Wizards were running out Bub Carrigton as their point guard for most of last season they desperately needed a lead ball handler and it doesn’t completely kill their cap flexibility either

ColdBeing | Wizards

7 | 11 hours ago

Trae is 27 and makes so many plays happen. Sure his defense isn’t great but we haven’t had anyone close to that since John Wall. We have a problem getting good ball handlers.

ColdBeing | Wizards

-1 | 11 hours ago

Trae is 27 and makes so many plays happen. Sure his defense isn’t great but we haven’t had anyone close to that since John Wall. We have a problem getting good ball handlers.

CommiesFan1948

12 | 14 hours ago

Which is the year before we need to extend AJ. But LOL wizards for sure

foogeyzi69 | LAL

1 | 12 hours ago

that was pre agreed before the trade even happened. LMAO

Inevitable-Scar5877

1 | 9 hours ago

The difference is that Trae plays.

He hasn’t been injury free by any means but up until last year (when he was likely healthy the last few months but was held out to tank) he put in games.

AD has basically one year with anything approaching acceptable availability in the last half decade

ChefSaucefoya

0 | 13 hours ago

It’s been a month and the reasons for the extension have been printed over and over. They asked him to sit last season for the tank, they believe in him as our point guard for our young team, and he’s said over and over he’s willing to change his play style to accommodate the young guys. They’ve also surround him with insane length all over the court and his final year aligns with when all our young guys are due for extensions. AD is a totally different situation

b1ackfyre | Kings

14 | 14 hours ago

I like that this forces AD to actually work for his next contract, and show he can continue to be an impactful player. Lol, street clothes used to getting big contracts handed to him despite barely playing.

StormTheTrooper | Mavericks

5 | 14 hours ago

You underestimate the capacity Klutch has to make noise

Certain-Arugula8333 | Lakers

-5 | 14 hours ago

Mavs and Wiz intentionally kept him out

qotsabama | DAL

18 | 14 hours ago

He wasn’t healthy when we traded him. We weren’t fully tanking. Every time he got healthy he played.

b1ackfyre | Kings

5 | 14 hours ago

Crazy work to max, or close to max him, after that 1st Dallas game he got injured.

Not worth the cap space, such a big risk can hamstring a team.

qotsabama | DAL

3 | 14 hours ago

I’m very glad he’s no longer on our team. The return wasn’t much, but we have clean cap sheets for years and are way deeper now.

MavsFanForLife | Mavericks

1 | 13 hours ago

Agreed but that first half of the first game was pretty crazy tbh lol. They looked unstoppable for 2 quarters against a good rockets team

bilyl | Warriors

1 | 12 hours ago

Why not? They have the cap space and the timeline works. They are not in win now mode and by the time AD’s new contract is up the rest of the roster gets paid.

ClaymoresRevenge | Bulls

1 | 12 hours ago

I feel like he’s a play the year and then decide if they’ll extend candidate for sure.

Adorable-Bike-9689

1 | 11 hours ago

AD has made one all NBA team since the ²⁰¹⁹⁄₂₀₂₀ season. If his agent gets him another max he deserves a higher percentage of the cut

foogeyzi69 | LAL

0 | 12 hours ago

i mean if he plays well and over 65 games this yr and made an all nba team a 1+1 is not a crazy extension.

SJCitizen | 76ers

49 | 14 hours ago

Makes sense. At this point where the league values AD and where AD’s camp and Nico Harrison value AD are two different things. He’s not worth max money in 2026.

cleo22270 | Heat

27 | 13 hours ago

He must have been pissed that Nico got fired.

That was his only path to the payday he and Rich Paul were looking for.

Electric_jungle | Washington Bullets

5 | 12 hours ago

He’s betting that he still is, and I’m just glad the wiz aren’t biting. It’s only to our advantage if he proves he can still be a max player on the court, regardless of whether or not that’s us extending or trading. I still hope for a trade for a lot more, but we’ll see.

MyTeamsSuck99 | Nets

-1 | 11 hours ago

Neither is Trae and he got close to max money. Shows how bad that Trae contract is.

heat_fan_ | Raptors

26 | 13 hours ago

Knowing AD health issue i wouldn’t give him a nax contact

Admirable-Clap-69420

5 | 13 hours ago

Knowing AD, I wouldn’t give him max contract.

The only time AD was really healthy is the bubble and Nd they won. I’m sure the time off they got between the suspension of the season and bubble allowed AD to rest.

You give AD 82 games, he’s not doing it. He showed us that he don’t have the work ethic, he don’t work on his body like that. He shows up out of shape, has multiple times said he hasn’t touched a basketball during off season

I mean wtf.. just look at the dudes career. He is definitely generational talent.

shortyman920 | Lakers

15 | 13 hours ago

AD was healthy and productive in all the lakers playoffs after the shortened 2021 offseason so it’s definitely possible to manage his health to keep him til the end. The Mavs just didn’t do that at all. We’ll see if he can stay on the floor this season. Because even at this stage, a healthy AD is more valuable than Trae. He’s still a good defender, rebounder, play setter, and can get consistent buckets.

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Complete_Crazy_4887 | Lebanon

6 | 13 hours ago

AD was healthy and productive in all the lakers playoffs after the shortened 2021 offseason

Stop being smug and just read what he wrote

shortyman920 | Lakers

0 | 13 hours ago

2021’s injury was due to the 6 week offseason they had for going far in the playoffs. Most of the deep playoff teams from bubble suffered next season from the recovery period.

2022 was just a shitshow all around with the Melo, Ariza, Russ team.

2023-2024: this is mostly what I was referring to. He was elite in the playoffs. Sure they lost to Nuggets, but nuggets were the champs, and they certainly didn’t lose because of AD. You’ll recall how AD utterly dominated the Grizzlies and DPOTY JJJ. Good competitive wins against warriors, amongst others.

2025: he was hurt when he was traded, but that wasn’t an alarming injury. Lakers medical staff had figured out how to minimize his risk of severe injury by not rushing him back for smaller injuries. AD always suffers from something catastrophic when he picks up a half dozen nagging injuries and tries to play through them or rushes back. The Mavs at the time had a very poor medical staff. Guys were falling like flies, other players like PJ Washington were coming back too early and re-injuring ankles. And AD was part of that medical practice.

2026: I dk what happened here but it was a rebuild season anyway with Flagg, and obviously there was no point playing on the tanking Wizards.

So he is still injury prone but people forget he was capable of providing top 10/ top 5 impact on the floor in the playoffs if you managed his health properly in the regular season.

Admirable-Clap-69420

1 | 13 hours ago

Lol so 1 playoffs .. nah I’m good. I rather have cap space than AD the glass man

shortyman920 | Lakers

2 | 13 hours ago

It’s ²⁄₃ playoffs if we’re not counting the 2021 playoffs (again, no deep bubble run team were healthy next season).

And this is of course also considering the context that Trae is paid $55mil a year. AD is not worth a max but it’s ridiculous to suggest he has no value and can’t play at all

Admirable-Clap-69420

6 | 13 hours ago

Nah we couting everything.

2021 - hurt

2022- miss

2023 - ok

2024 - ok

2025 - traded hurt and miss

2026 - hurt and miss

That’s ²⁄₆ stop trying to rewrite history lol.

And yes he can’t play at all literally… He literally can’t stay healthy .. I get it you love AD but he’s getting older and weaker by the day

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shortyman920 | Lakers

1 | 8 hours ago

You’re right, and those are all good points. Even when he played hurt he was still impactful on both sides of the ball on some relatively subpar lakers roster. Which is why I’m giving him his flowers for stepping up when needed.

But ultimately I’ll concede my argument. He does just get hurt too much

bewellbekind

1 | 8 hours ago

ya he’s a great player and was a great player for the Lakers.. and actually deserves more credit for his toughness because he was out there not 100% quite often. just hope he can stay on the court going forward

cleo22270 | Heat

22 | 14 hours ago

I wonder if there were any significant offers for AD over the offseason.

It seems like if a team made a serious offer, the Wizards would have jumped on that.

qotsabama | DAL

21 | 14 hours ago

No shot. His contract is very difficult to trade for.

Joezepey | Knicks

6 | 14 hours ago

Shouldve been the warriors

daperry4 | Wizards

3 | 13 hours ago

They can still offer Butler and Yaxel

Peter510 | Warriors

4 | 12 hours ago

Not anymore without Lebron

Flimsy_Theme_2812 | Warriors

2 | 11 hours ago

They technically can, but they will not. Sounds like the Wizards want to keep AD too.

Warriors are not paying big money & giving up picks/our 11th pick for a frequently injured AD. Messaging from the Warriors side (the FO, Kerr, Dray, Steph) has been consistent. Everyone seems realistic about where the team is, and we are not an injury-prone AD away from being contenders.

ColdBeing | Wizards

3 | 11 hours ago

I honestly don’t want to trade him. I hope we do really good this season and other players WANT to come here. Change our reputation around

ThatBull_cj | 76ers Bandwagon

1 | 10 hours ago

I mean he had little value when the wizards traded for him then he never played. Hard to think any real offer was made

Old_Supermarket_7575 | Thunder

10 | 14 hours ago

If this season starts well he’s getting traded

michaelalex3 | Hornets

3 | 13 hours ago

That would be the smart move. But they did just give Trae a huge extension when his market is clearly not that strong, so who knows.

Wiz have so much potential if they play things right, hopefully they don’t mess it up by trying to rush it.

theb3arjevv | PHI

6 | 13 hours ago

If the season starts well, I could see a 2 year max plus a player option for a third year being agreeable for both sides. Should line up with when the bills for the young guys get big and gives the young guys a year or two without him to get Trae’s full attention.

Is AD worth a max in a vacuum? Probably not. But it’s Washington. The first step toward repairing an image is ALWAYS overpaying some well liked and productive guys

No-Independence-5479 | Washington Bullets

3 | 12 hours ago

Please god in heaven let these talks fall apart

theyoloGod | Tampa Bay Raptors

2 | 12 hours ago

Man’s going to ball out, get his max then play 30% of his contract

Bieberkinz | Trail Blazers

2 | 8 hours ago

AD should just get a contract that pays him an average salary and if he plays x amount of games with some type of minutes qualifier, he can get more.

No reason for him to get a very lucrative contract in 2026

ecclectic_collector

1 | 13 hours ago

are there teams with the cap space next summer that Rich Paul could leverage the Wizards into giving AD a max/near max extension?

Electric_jungle | Washington Bullets

1 | 11 hours ago

Feels like a deadline push for the Rich Paul side. If AD is healthy and playing like he did two years ago, Wiz might want to keep him but I’d imagine at least a couple teams would be looking at him to take them over the top. Can’t really think of who at the moment but maybe Cavs, Pistons, Sixers could fit that bill… Blazers I guess?

Really hard to know wherever everything would be in this scenario that’s overly optimistic…but I’d think it’s AD/Rich’s best case at least.

LamboJoeRecs | Nuggets

1 | 13 hours ago

BIG bag incoming after 82 games played!!!

DifficultAd2995

1 | 12 hours ago

AD career at such a weird point now

SpriteBerryRemix

1 | 11 hours ago

Rich Paul was trying his best to add AD to the LeBron “sweepstakes” so that he could use LeBron as the prop to get AD his max.

Glad nobody budged on that.

Superfluous_Prating

1 | 10 hours ago

The Wiz waiting for the next injury.

axecalibur | Knicks

1 | 8 hours ago

He will rest the first half of the year and then he’s getting traded for Embiid at the deadline

Joshottas

1 | 8 hours ago

This was always going to be the case. Anything you heard to the contrary was from the mouth of Rich Paul.

HandsomeJack19 | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

He’s going to play amazing for the first month. They are going to give him a big extension. And then… y’all know where I’m going to go with this…

SwizzGod | Lakers

0 | 12 hours ago

Trade him home

businessbuilder10

-4 | 14 hours ago

Should’ve sent him to gsw. Butler and a 1st rounder plus 2nd round picks would’ve been nice.

Get some draft ammunition for moves plus $50m butler expiring money for new signings

Jettisons | Wizards

16 | 14 hours ago

People trash the wizards for not trying to win but when they do its trade their players for other teams trash smh

Makaveli84 | Lakers

2 | 12 hours ago

Nope, we try to even help them. AD is damaged goods. He’s not worth a max contract and if the wizards give it to him, they are done…again.

baldurcan

-1 | 13 hours ago

You can’t win with AD because.

RoyalOakPiguet | Knicks

8 | 14 hours ago

Why the hell would GSW want to do that deal

BaeylnBrown777 | BOS

2 | 14 hours ago

Because it would probably have gotten them LeBron on a cheap deal.

Due-Dance-9430 | Spurs

2 | 12 hours ago

if it was true that Lebron would’ve only gone to the warriors if they had gotten AD i think the wizards had all the leverage on the warriors and it is pretty justifiable to not pay up if i’m GSW. that’s exactly how the Paul George/Thunder trade happened and instead of prime PG and Kawhi you’d be getting 42 year old lebron and Anthony Davis

mrizvi | San Francisco Warriors

1 | 14 hours ago

Nah he said he’d only team with curry if they went somewhere else

BaeylnBrown777 | BOS

2 | 13 hours ago

Where did you see that? I saw plenty of reports that suggested to me that if AD went to the Warriors LeBron would follow.

mrizvi | San Francisco Warriors

1 | 13 hours ago

It was right after he signed with 6ers

SHashbrowns1 | Lakers

0 | 13 hours ago

Can you cite it

mrizvi | San Francisco Warriors

2 | 13 hours ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/kXOY0Pn4nN

SHashbrowns1 | Lakers

3 | 12 hours ago

Is that LeBron saying that or is that Slayer speculating?

Flimsy_Theme_2812 | Warriors

1 | 12 hours ago

LeBron never said he wanted the Warriors to get AD or that he would go to GS if they got AD. It was media speculation & probably Rich Paul trying to get AD paid:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49473905/warriors-running-back-steph-curry-era-enters-another-crossroads%EF%BB%BF-lebron-james-offseason

mrizvi | San Francisco Warriors

1 | 12 hours ago

Bro I ain’t LeBron or slayer so I can’t answer that for you.

DollarLate_DayShort | WAS

5 | 14 hours ago

Nahh we’re good. I understand that the rest of the NBA sees the wizards as a punching bag, but the team is ready to put a competent roster on the court and us trading AD and not getting another big in return is roster malpractice.

Electric_jungle | Washington Bullets

1 | 12 hours ago

Such a shitty offer of course we never would have accepted that. Butler already takes a first to get off the contract lol. Dunno why ppl don’t realize we want to see AD on the court.

stock-prince-WK | East

-24 | 14 hours ago

AD needs to retire.

He’s not a competitor. He’s a cry baby quitter with weak knees and a weak mindset.

Mad cause he got separated from his boyfriend (LeBron)

Go play video games buddy 💀

[Robbins] League sources say that any meaningful talks between Anthony Davis and the Wizards about a possible extension will occur during the 2026-27 season, not before. Even if this season starts well, both sides could find themselves far apart on a potential extension.