NBA News: Negotiations between Phoenix Suns and Deandre Ayton Apparently stalled

The Phoenix SUNS has apparently not be charged to offer the maximum salary in negotiations on premature contract extension. As a result, the talks are allegedly stalled.

This comes from a report by Adrian Wojnarowski ( espn ). Accordingly, the 23-year-old does not intend to sign his rookie extension for less than the maximum. In summer, a variety of his colleagues from the 2018 draft, for example Luka Doncic, Trae Young or Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, got the Max Extension from their teams.

According to espn , the Suns in the negotiations, however, the opinion that Ayton does not belong to this group. The No.1-Pick of 2018 played a key role in the finals run of the Suns in the past playoffs, in his first postseason he put on average 15.8 points and 11.8 rebounds at 65.8 percent field throwing rate. He convinced with his defense and delivered a lot of important plays.

Ayton is entitled to negotiate an extension of its rookie contract at maximum references, this corresponds to a new contract over five years and 172 million dollars - including bonuses that could increase its salary up to 207 million. The Suns are obviously not charged to submit this offer.

In the past, Team owners Robert Sarver rejected more often to pay luxury taxes for his team. But this will be difficult to prevent when Phoenix wants to keep the core around Chris Paul, Devin Booker and Ayton in the long term. CP3 in the summer got a new, 120 million heavy four-year contract, Booker goes to the third year of its max rookie extension.

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Should the two parties be able to agree until the deadline on October 18th, the Center will be 2022 Restricted Free Agent in the summer. Even with Mikal Bridges, which is also allowed to sign a rookie extension, there was no agreement yet.