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Originally Posted by butterfly
Matthews got a 4 year deal. They are getting all his best years and can let someone else pay the “look what he did” sucker’s deal.
Sooner or later GMs will figure out why players are so desperate for 8-year deals at the end of RFA or slightly later (they know they’re at their peak and the decline is about to start) and stop giving them out.
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Some team would always give the 7/8 year deal for a star. It's acknowledged that you are paying for 2-4 years of garbage on the back end. If you don't pay it out, another team, who is desperate for star power now, will.