After a summer of rumors, news that put him back in Europe and doubts about his future NBA after his strange arrival in the Oklahoma City Thunder in the middle of last season, Gabriel Deck’s situation is clarified. The power forward will continue, except for an unexpected setback right now, in the NBA and the Thunder. That is his sporting destiny for the imminent new season and, if all goes well, the next ones. Although that is not guaranteed.
The Argentine communication team confirmed that had flown to Oklahoma City to start training for the training camp, the team’s official preseason. Deck left Real Madrid in a surprising way (for times) on April 8 and played ten games in the final stretch of the season (annus horribilis in full reconstruction: 22-50) of the Thunder (he averaged 8.4 points and 4 rebounds in 21.2 minutes on the court).
But your contract, of which the conditions and guarantees were not well known, he left ends untied: he signed for more than $ 3 million a year and four seasons, the end of the pass and three others, but without annual guarantees. That left the door open to speculation that, in a team with constant manufacturing fluctuations due to being in full reconstruction with a new young nucleus still in training, it was speculated that their NBA adventure would have ended without having barely begun.
But no: Deck’s contract has been (on September 1) partially guaranteed, which ensures to start the season in the NBA. His new date on the horizon is January 10, at which time his contract will have to be guaranteed for the rest of this season., in which a total of 3.6 million would be charged. For the next two, it has 3.4 signed for each one, but they will not be guaranteed until September 20, 2022 (for 2022-23) and 2023 (for 2023-24). The Thunder are barely reaching $ 80 million in guaranteed salary for this season, so they can easily take on Deck’s to see if the player (26 years old) can definitely make a hole in the rotation of coach Mike Daigneault, who faces his second year in office.
