Don’t expect every player to follow Jalen Brunson’s lead.
The Sacramento Kings’ De’Aaron Fox is extension eligible this summer and could sign a three-year, $165 million extension to be tacked onto the $71.9 million he is owed the next two years. In a move that should surprise nobody, he is turning that offer to sign a much larger extension next summer, something ESPN’s Shams Charania reported.
The reason is money. Next summer, Fox will be eligible for a four-year, $229 million extension (a deal worth an average of $2.25 million more a season than he can sign for right now, plus he gets an extra year of security). The bigger bet is if Fox can make All-NBA again this coming season (he made it in 2022-23), he can sign a four-year, $345 million supermax extension — which would make him the highest-paid player in NBA history (for a year, until Luka Doncic becomes eligible for an extension)…