This nugget was buried in Gary Washburn’s notes on Saturday morning:
Avery Bradley has changed agents from Mitchell Butler of the Rival Sports Group to Rob Pelinka, who also represents Kobe Bryant. Butler was able to procure the oft-injured Bradley a four-year, $32 million contract extension last summer, considered an above-market deal. Now Bradley is apparently unhappy with his contract, especially after seeing players such as Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton (five years, $70 million), Utah’s Gordon Hayward (four years, $61 million), and Cleveland’s Tristan Thompson (five years, $82 million) cash in with lucrative extensions, making Bradley’s deal appear to be a bargain with the new television money increasing the salary cap this summer.
What’s that saying… timing is everything?
Yes Avery, you are about to be vastly underpaid. But that’s what happens when you take the safe route and sign a 4 year extension as a restricted free-agent. Maybe he thinks his previous agents should have known the salary cap was going to explode in 2016.
All of the players mentioned above are a tier better than Bradley. If you check out his stats over the last three seasons, you see Bradley’s game has leveled off.
If Bradley was heading into free-agency this off-season, I don’t think he’d see $60 million. Maybe $50 million.
