Kings Would Be Foolish to Extend Spencer Hawes's Contract in 2010

For all the reasons you’ve listed.

Thing is, does he think he’s earned it? Will we get Spencer the malingerer next season, or a Spencer Hawes playing for his next contract?

I don’t even know how that can be a thought in anyones head, even Spencer’s with his bloated ego. I agree we should wait unless we could sign him to a $3-4 million a year contract. That would be fair for even a back-up center/PF with possible knee problems. That’s what Houston gave Landry on the same premiss. I would like to see how Spencer perform next to an good rebounder. Wether that be a C or PF.

Most starting big men make close to 8 figures and back-ups make AT LEAST MLE level money. If has was willing to sacrifice some payday for some future security due to the new CBA and agree to a 5 year 30 million dollar deal(6 million annnually) then I think we’d have to ink him. He’d become an instant value deal, is young and still improving while being a legit 7 footer. I think it would be foolish NOT to try and use the looming CBA to get Hawes into a good deal now, because even if salaries do shrink in the NBA. A 6 million a year starting caliber center will STILL be an value contract, no matter what.

But only if Joe and Gavin will mow his lawn.

He’s not earned the extension. While his defense had improved, his performance has been inconsistent on both sides of the ball throughout the year. Moreover, he seems to excel when challenged. So, let’s see how he performs next year tyring to earn a bigger payday while fighting for minutes. Spencer is young and skilled and, I believe, will continue to improve. He needs to show more.

but you sure as hell don’t give up on him. I’d like to see Hawes work hard next year and earn the contract. Skipping Summer League wasn’t a big deal to me when it happened, but looking back at it now, it was probably huge. He needs to show some major improvement next year. Which I think will come. I think his age has a lot to do with it.

If anything, all the reasons delineated give reason to wait to offer an extension of his contract. There is no reason to reward Spencer with an early extension.

But the team has been too generous with these early extensions in the past, refusing to use restricted free agency as a weapon against the players. It’s time that ended. There’s no reason to extend Hawes this summer.

Hopefully, the Kings have learned something by being too generous with previous early extensions to not make that same mistake with Spencer.

So, let him play his way into a bigger deal, or free agency. My understanding is the man loves an unfettered market.

I hope his knee is sound, and that he comes back and absolutely kills it next season, but the organization would be stupid to offer him anything beyond next season before they really know what they have. Even an MLE-size type deal is far too generous with so much information in the wind.

To me he just doesn’t try hard enough to improve and his attitude sucks. What makes it worse is that he’s got the talent and the skills to be a great center in this league. I just don’t know that he’ll ever have the attitude or work ethic to be truly great. He’s kind of like Amare in that way.

Contract only guaranteed if he improves his verticle above 2".

because Spencer Hawes won’t be on the team past next year’s trade deadline; I’ll be surprised if he’s on the team opening night.

You don’t sign him to an extension, because you leave that up to the team he’s going to be dealt to.

He’s had a rough year, and hard to argue with Z’s analysis, but I’m a sucker for 7 footers loaded with potential (there’s just not that many to go around.) If he isn’t traded in the off-season, I’d offer him 20 – 23 mil over 5 yrs as an FA and hire a coach / mentor similar to what Orlando did for D12 with Ewing. He may not be the immediate solution to our lack of physicality in the paint, but overall he’s a good rotational piece at a cheap price, which is also good trade bait in the event Toronto somehow keeps Bosh and he demands a trade in 2012.

But, has there been any rumor that they were going to?

but I think everything that has been said by TZ, Otis ans Allbenji’s covers my thoughts on this. There’s no real risk and a lot of reward by waiting – especially with the physical question.

Though I admire his potential skill set in a lot of ways.

The idea of Spencer getting an extension with the Kings is a joke. Or at least it should be. After he heals up the best thing would be to deal him before the next trade deadline.

Obviously there’s no way to know how much value he would have at that point, (very possibly not much), but I think it’s been made abundantly clear that Spencer is not the type of center who’s going to help catapult the team up to the next level.

He’s had a one-step-forward-two-steps-back career here so far, and in any case his gifts, such as they are, ain’t a good fit for the rest of the talent on the roster.

Moreover, we knew there were red flags about this knee from the git-go. Spencer had at least one, (and possibly more than one) microfracture surgery in his early teens on the left knee. Right after he was drafted he had arthroscopic surgery on that knee (i.e. the one that’s costing him the rest of this season), and it was reported at that time that he’d already had at least four previous scopes.

If we can include him in a package deal that would bring us back some kind of asset we should absolutely pull the trigger and let another team see if they can mold him into an NBA center.

He becomes a great center at age 27? That would give him a solid 5-6 years (on the low side) of being a dependable player on our team. Patience can pay off if he turns out to be consistently solid.
The other end of the spectrum would be being too patient and realizing you’ve wasted a whole hell of a lot of money.
If I only (and King;s management) had a crystal ball.

He’s so young, but . . . .

but the thread system this place uses is awesome. you get to zip around and catch updates to each conversation, and they make sense.

Personally I think we should trade hime for another pick, that way we’ll have two first round lottery picks! or we could sign him after next year for maybe 3 year 11 million!