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this is totally wrong. They offered him 5 for 45 when he wanted 5 for 50 the summer of 2004. He wasn’t offered anything NEAR the Max in that 2004 off-season... and he broke out in 2003-4 when he really came on in the second half of the year averaging 19/5/5 once Marbury was traded.
let’s not litigate this again. Server blew that one by haggling over 1 mill per year for a guy who took a MASSIVE leap from Season 1 to 2 and getting him at that salary would have been a coup. We blew it, it soured the relationship and the next summer JJ was offered the boffo contact from the Hawks.
It happened. It blew. Let’s move on.
I already went back and acknowledged it wasn’t close to the max and that Sarver looked cheap over a $5m difference but I remember that transition year post-Starbury and JJ wasn’t anything special. It was a lot of inefficient scoring on a bad team. We knew he had potential but the plan was to showcase him for a Kobe or T-Mac trade. The Suns were willing to match but he wanted to be the man for an irrelevant Hawks franchise. Both sides lost that one.