Young central Deedre Ayton stayed in Phoenix, Indiana Pacers received $ 133 million?
In the early summer of 2021, Phoenix Suns after becoming a Western king came very close to the NBA championship. They are only two more 2 more victories away from Larry O'Brien.
The important link in that success is Deedre Ayton, who played in the starting lineup next to the famous stars Chris Paul and Devin Booker. However, Ayton and Phoenix could not find a common voice in the contract extension story.
Even the Bahamas striker had a conflict with the head coach at the end of the last season. That image seemed to have closed his future with the Footprint Center's home team.
As one of the strikers with great potential and relatively young (23 years old, born in 1998), Deedre Ayton immediately reached the sights of many teams at NBA.
One of them is Indiana Pacers, a collective in need of a high quality versatile bigman to be centered for the new squad system.
The only barrier is that Ayton is still bound to Phoenix under the rookie contract in 2018. Accordingly, he is a Redricted Free Agent (RFA), roughly translated as a conditional player.
Other teams will be allowed to approach Deandre Ayton, suggesting a new contract for the Bahamas. However, Phoenix Suns will have the right to keep Ayton if they make an equivalent or better offer.
Last night (July 14), Indiana Pacers officially signed offer (offer sheet) with Ayton a 4 -year contract worth $ 133 million.
Every sign shows that Deedre Ayton's departure is very high. He was rejected by the team to extend the contract and did not get a raise, then had a conflict with the chief coach.
It seemed that Ayton would arrive in Indiana Pacers as a free player, but Phoenix Suns suddenly had water in the opposite.
No need for 48 hours as prescribed by NBA, the Western team immediately offered the proposal equivalent to Pacers to keep the Bahamas from Footprint Center.
This information was confirmed by the prestigious journalist Shams Charania on his personal page as well as The Athletic news page.
This is a rather unexpected move of Phoenix Suns, also a "painful" for Indiana Pacers when this Eastern team seems to be deceived.
ESPN's transfer expert added that Pacers now has a huge paid fund gap but no quality name in the market of free players to sign.
They were too focused on recruiting Deandre Ayton and liquidating the contract with many different names. Now Pacers will have to handle consequences and seek alternative options.
On the side of Phoenix Suns and Deedre Ayton, it is unclear whether there is any exchange in the back or not to come to the decision to keep this striker.
Ayton will have to stick with Phoenix for at least the next 6 months (January of the following year) in accordance with NBA's regulations, which means that he will play for Suns in the first half of the Regular Season 2022-23.
One term with this contract is that Deedre has the right to refuse to exchange if he feels dissatisfied within 1 year.
More specifically, Phoenix Suns if you want to trade Ayton to another team within the 2022-23 season, you will need the consensus of Trung Phong born in 1998.
