Why Wemby changed the chances for Cooper to Celtics
Offseason content obviously.
Wemby accepting the 25% max instead of the home team advantange 30% might change things for us.
The reason that rookie extension max is better is the the 30% baseline, and 8% raises vs 5%.
Well if you take down to 25%, any team could have offered Wemby 25% with 5% raises (after a year at the QO of course).
And that 3% difference is nice, but its not super massive to the point where you want to spend 5 years on a horrible team. Wemby of course took less becasue his team was good, Which is proof that even young players will take less to be on a better team.
But no player would *waste* a year of their career on a QO money when they could get 30% max right? Well…. that’s the whole point of this post, here is the reasons why you may not. The QO for Cooper is going to still be like 20 million, which isnt that bad for complete freedom.
Teams and players this good may not be dipping into the 30% max anymore with the Wemby precident, some will, but some may follow Wemby. Cooper may.
No player has ever reclassifed a year ahead of time and joined the NBA as young as Cooper Flagg has. Him *wasting* a year on a QO offer to gain his complete freedom would still put him *completely on par with everyone else, ever*. He is still already 1 year ahead earnings wise because of that highschool reclassification.
There is some hope if you look for it.