Ishbia wants to win huge today, and he’s willing to pay through the nose if he thinks the deal gets him closer to making that happen. Here's what Bradley Beal's game gives the SunsĪfter paying $4 billion for a franchise that made the NBA Finals in 2021, posted the league’s best record in 2022 and suffered an embarrassing home-court elimination at the hands of Luka Dončić and the Dallas Mavericks, Mat Ishbia immediately forked over every first-round draft pick he could for Durant … before suffering another embarrassing home-court elimination (this time at the hands of Jokić and the eventual champion Denver Nuggets) and firing head coach Monty Williams.

The Suns, on the other hand, clearly aren’t all that worried about tomorrow. Mission accomplished.”įor Washington, then, the Beal move is a franchise that’s had a nagging cold for the past half-dozen years taking its medicine - a hard swallow of a bitter pill, with an eye toward a hoped-for healthier tomorrow. As David Aldridge of The Athletic put it: “The Wizards wanted to have all Beal Business off of their books in 12 months. (Kuzma made it clear months ago that he’s going to do just that Porzingis is “considering picking up his $36 million player option,” according to Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Jake Fischer.) For the moment, though, the only Wizard with a guaranteed, non-rookie-scale contract that extends past the end of next season is center Daniel Gafford, on the ledger for just $14.4 million in 2025-26. There’s plenty of movement and plenty of decisions still to come - chief among them, whether Paul ever suits up in the District or is promptly rerouted for more draft picks, young players and/or salary-cap flexibility, and the futures of Kristaps Porziņģis and Kyle Kuzma, both of whom hold player options for next season and can exercise them to enter unrestricted free agency on June 30. valued shedding the $150.6 million that Beal is guaranteed to make over the next three seasons, as well as his $57.1 million player option for 2026-27. (Brooklyn controls Phoenix’s first-round selections in 2023, 2025, 2027, 20 from the February blockbuster that landed Durant in the desert.) That package highlights how little leverage Washington had with Beal and Bartelstein holding all the cards, and how much new team president Michael Winger and Co. The Wizards’ return for a three-time All-Star they’d just given a quarter-billion-dollar supermax contract is poised to be Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, “ at least four second-round draft picks and multiple pick swaps,” likely to come in 20.

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