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Among the things this signing signals: The Washington Wizards will select BYU’s AJ Dybantsa with the No. 1 pick in this year’s NBA Draft. Washington now has its point guard of the future locked up and isn’t going to select Darryn Peterson.
Trae Young has agreed to terms to return to the Washington Wizards on a four-year, $212 million contract, a story broken almost simultaneously by ESPN’s Shams Charania and Josh Robbins of The Athletic.
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Young, who was traded to the Wizards from the Hawks at the deadline, declined his $48.97 million player option for next season and became an unrestricted free agent. The expectation from many around the league was that Young would take less per year for a longer deal, but he is now set to make more next season ($49.5 million), and his salary only goes up from there. The fourth year of the contract is a player option for $56.9 million.
The large contract is surprising because, in the run-up to trading Young (for nearly a year prior to the February deadline), it became clear there was not much of a market for Young, at least at his current salary. Less than six months later, things flipped, and Washington paid him that and more. It is possible the Wizards will come to regret the bcal
That $212 million for four years figure is essentially the max any other team could have offered Young (with his Bird rights, Washington could have gone higher). It’s unclear whether such a large offer was out there from another team for the 27-year-old four-time All-Star. However, the Wizards front office was convinced that, because of the league’s new anti-tanking measures, a larger offer than had been rumored around the league would come his way, reports Robins at The Athletic.
Young struggled last season with injuries and averaged “just” 17.9 points and eight assists a game, shooting 33.8% from 3-point range. The season before that, Young was an All-Star who averaged 24.2 points and 11.6 assists per game, shooting 34% from beyond the arc.
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Young joins a team with Anthony Davis as the veteran in the front court, along with the promising young Alex Sarr. That group very…
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