2017 NBA Manifesto
Jae Crowder
SG/SF, 6’6, 235lbs, 26 years old, 5 years of experience
Very valuable and very competitively priced. If he is to be upgraded, it is not because he has in any way disappointed. Crowder exhibited a much improved three-point stroke this season that put him towards the very top of the pile of the best three-and-D players in the game, an asset in trade but an asset on the team for the short, medium and (if you'd like) long term futures. Awkwardly yet helpfully, Crowder is both a player not to be given away, and a perfect foundational piece (both financially and in terms of quality of play) for a trade for a star player. Any team trading away a star player would love to be able to say "at least we got Jae Crowder" back in return, no?
Player Plan: One of the team-friendliest contracts in the league, with three years and circa. $22 million left. Young, cheap, productive, versatile and locked in, he will surely have great value - it is probably worth gauging how much so.
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SG/SF, 6’6, 235lbs, 26 years old, 5 years of experience
Very valuable and very competitively priced. If he is to be upgraded, it is not because he has in any way disappointed. Crowder exhibited a much improved three-point stroke this season that put him towards the very top of the pile of the best three-and-D players in the game, an asset in trade but an asset on the team for the short, medium and (if you'd like) long term futures. Awkwardly yet helpfully, Crowder is both a player not to be given away, and a perfect foundational piece (both financially and in terms of quality of play) for a trade for a star player. Any team trading away a star player would love to be able to say "at least we got Jae Crowder" back in return, no?
Player Plan: One of the team-friendliest contracts in the league, with three years and circa. $22 million left. Young, cheap, productive, versatile and locked in, he will surely have great value - it is probably worth gauging how much so.