Restricted free agent Collin Sexton has received a contract offer from the Cleveland Cavaliers, but the two sides are reportedly still very far from each other. The 23-year-old should not be particularly happy with the course of the negotiations.
This is reported by Chris Fedor (Cleveland.com). According to him, the Cavs’ offer is in the three-year, $40 million range. But the guard demands a lot more. Recently, there has been speculation that Sexton is hoping for a new deal in the $80 million range.
According to Fedor, the fronts are correspondingly hardened. “It’s just not the money he thinks he should be getting and his camp thinks he deserves more,” Fedor said on his podcast The Wine & Gold Talk. The two sides are at an impasse and there is no quick solution in sight. Cleveland is not prepared to pay the luxury tax for the Guard.
For Sexton, free agency went very differently than he had probably hoped for himself. According to Fedor, the potential buyers that his camp had in mind quickly left the market. Now only the Spurs and Pacers have enough cap space to make Sexton the kind of offer he wants without a sign-and-trade. But neither team should be interested.
Now the camp of the 8th pick of 2018 is hoping for changes in the status quo in the NBA, for example through trades by Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving or Donovan Mitchell, which could possibly create another market for Sexton in a domino effect. Accordingly, Sexton could wait with a decision, even the qualifying offer over a year and $ 7.2 million could become an option for him to target a payday in the summer of 2023.
Due to a meniscus injury, the scorer only played eleven games last season. Over the course of his career, he averaged 20 points and 3.3 assists with shot percentages of 45.8 percent from the field and 37.8 percent from downtown.
