{"id":40413,"date":"2022-06-07T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/deandre-ayton-likely-to-leave-suns-maybe-in-sign-and-trade\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:58:37","slug":"deandre-ayton-likely-to-leave-suns-maybe-in-sign-and-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/deandre-ayton-likely-to-leave-suns-maybe-in-sign-and-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Deandre Ayton likely to leave Suns, maybe in sign-and-trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-964951\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Suns didn&#8217;t offer Deandre Ayton a max contract extension last offseason.  They don&#8217;t want to offer him a $ 30 million salary this summer.<\/p>\n<p>But he could draw a max offer sheet in restricted free agency.  Keeping Ayton is Phoenix&#8217;s most direct path to a player anywhere near his caliber than him.  Capped out, the Suns would be limited to about the mid-level exception for an outside free agent barring other major moves.  In championship contention with an aging Chris Paul, this is not the time to take a step back.<\/p>\n<p>How will Phoenix handle this dilemma?<\/p>\n<p>James L. Edwards III and John Hollinger of The Athletic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>sources tell <em>The Athletic<\/em> that it&#8217;s \u201cmore likely than not\u201d that Ayton plays somewhere other than Phoenix next season.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The way free agency takes off well before it officially opens, this could be more than mere speculation.<\/p>\n<p>A sign-and-trade might be the solution for everyone involved.  The Suns would get return for their talented 23-year-old.  Ayton would get to a team willing to pay him and, therefore, more likely to give him a larger offensive role.  The acquiring team would get Ayton without fearing Phoenix matching an offer sheet.  If the acquiring team lacks cap space, a sign-and-trade would be even more helpful to that team.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot to sort out.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why teams and players sometimes get a head start on moves like this &#8211; and that maneuvering can leak.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><br \/>\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Suns didn&#8217;t offer Deandre Ayton a max contract extension last offseason. They don&#8217;t want to offer him a $ 30 million salary this summer. But he could draw a max offer sheet in restricted free agency. Keeping Ayton is Phoenix&#8217;s most direct path to a player anywhere near his caliber than him. Capped out, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/deandre-ayton-likely-to-leave-suns-maybe-in-sign-and-trade\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deandre Ayton likely to leave Suns, maybe in sign-and-trade<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nba.nbcsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1240727053-e1654533670323.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}