Wizards said to be willing to offer Noah a $28 million max deal

http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/news/nba-free-agency-washington-wizards-joakim-noah-chicago-bulls-knicks-derrick-rose-bucks-timberwolves/1g5h2xcr8ello1ct5ne29gn4m5

"The Wizards are said to be willing to offer Noah, coming off shoulder surgery that KO’d him in January, a full maximum contract. His deal would start at $28 million and reach around $120 million over four seasons."


$28 million for Noah after all his recent injuries and will be turning 32 before next year's playoffs?? An example of crazy money at its CRAZIEST.

steve3344 wrote:http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/news/nba-free-agency-washington-wizards-joakim-noah-chicago-bulls-knicks-derrick-rose-bucks-timberwolves/1g5h2xcr8ello1ct5ne29gn4m5

"The Wizards are said to be willing to offer Noah, coming off shoulder surgery that KO’d him in January, a full maximum contract. His deal would start at $28 million and reach around $120 million over four seasons."


$28 million for Noah after all his recent injuries and will be turning 32 before next year's playoffs??  An example of crazy money at its CRAZIEST.

Whomever does not blow all their new cap money on far-from-max players over the next two years will dominate the next half-decade.

Nene's $13M contract has expired and comes off the books. If they are going to offer a max contract to Noah I'd say the odds are good they will not be bringing Nene back.

He's 33 years old. In this new, positionless NBA he's probably done, or playing for less than half of what he made last year.


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Washington must have hit their collective heads on a low hanging drain pipe if they are even thinking of signing Joakim Noah for $28M. This either has to be a typo, a terrible rumor or is the first part of the league beginning to fall completely apart.

Not that Noah has not been a very good player in his career, but now as he ages and deals with more and more injuries there is no way he can be worth that amount of money to any team even if signing him brings a the NBA title next year. And, adding just Noah to the Wizards is not going to be anywhere near enough to win the title.

Good for Noah if he can get it, however stupid a deal it is for Washington.

Word is out tonight that Washington will definitely not be offering Noah a large contract.
That story seemed too crazy to be believable.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2016/6/25/12028122/2016-nba-free-agents-rumors-joakim-noah-wizards-max-contract-chandler-parsons



NBA free agency rumors 2016: No, the Wizards won't be offering Joakim Noah a max deal
By Tim Cato  @tim_cato on Jun 25, 2016, 8:30a +


Signing Noah wouldn't be part of Plan A for Washington, while Chandler Parsons could be moving on from Dallas.


Reports that the Wizards might offer Joakim Noah a max contract when free agency begins were quickly refuted by CSN Mid-Atlantic on Friday.

The initial report suggested that the Wizards, the Knicks, the Bucks and the Timberwolves all will be interested in Noah this offseason, and also said Washington would be willing to offer him a four-year max deal worth nearly $120 million.

There will be some ludicrous sums of money handed out this offseason, but a max contract for Noah would be entirely beyond reality. Noah is 31 and missed most of last season with injuries, playing very ineffectively when he did. His season ended in a game Chicago played against the Mavericks in mid-January, and his final stats were entirely mediocre: two starts in 29 games, averaging 4.3 points, 8.8 rebounds and 38 percent shooting in 22 minutes per game.

It has been a dramatic fall for Noah, who was fourth in MVP voting during the 2013-14 season. However, he looks broken down and has showed no signs of returning to top form. The Wizards weren't ruled out from pursuing Noah, but their goal this offseason will be getting younger and more athletic in the front court, per CSN Mid-Atlantic, something Noah obviously wouldn't help with.

In fact, Noah's market will be a fascinating case study of the influx of new money vs. risky free agents. The Knicks, Bucks and Timberwolves -- the other teams in the report -- are all teams on the younger side as well, and their supposed plans this summer would have to break down faster than Joakim Noah has for him to be an option, it would seem. For the Knicks, at least, new acquisition Derrick Rose is interested.

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There's a good chance Noah is a second-week signee, after the market settles and a more realistic price can be arranged for him. The only thing that is clear is that Noah won't be returning to Chicago.


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