Officially announced the signing! 75 million will become a basic salary! The Nuggets will take off next season

On the morning of July 11, the Nuggets officially announced that the team officially signed Tim Hardaway Jr. According to previous reports, this is a veteran's basic salary of $3.63 million per year. Hardaway's previous contract was $75 million for four years and expires this summer. He was born on March 16, 1992 and is not very old at the age of 33.

Hardaway Jr. will be wearing the Nuggets No. 10 jersey. Last season, he made 36 of 57 points from the Pistons, with a shooting percentage of up to 63%. The Nuggets new players Hardaway Jr. and Cameron Johnson were laughing in front of the camera. Hardaway Jr. said: "We both can do what we are good at. We can easily get some points in the Nuggets." In the 2024-25 season, Hardaway Jr. started 77 regular season games with the Pistons. He averaged 28 minutes per game, scored 11 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists, and shot from three events: 40.6%, 36.8%, and 85.5%. This year's playoffs, averaging 12 points, 2.8 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 1.5 turnovers per game, with three shooting percentages: 33.8%, 30.8%, and 80%.

Hardaway Jr.'s performance in the playoffs was fluctuating. G1 and G3 made 14 of 26 shots in the first round, scoring 42 points in two games. In the first round of the playoffs, Hardaway Jr. made 0 8 shots and scored 0 points, while G5 and G6 made 5 of 21 shots in total. If Hardaway is a little better in the playoffs and shoots the regular season shooting percentage, he will not change from a contract of 75 million to a basic salary.

Hardaway's performance in the playoffs has so much ups and downs, why do you say this is an S-level signing? When evaluating a player, it depends not only on the data, but also on his salary. Xiao Hardaway, who has an annual salary of 20 million yuan, has a high salary and low ability, but only gets a basic salary, it has become a hot commodity. In the 2020 and 2021 playoffs, Hardaway Jr. averaged 17+ points per game for two consecutive years!

In this offseason, the Nuggets used Porter Jr. + 1 first-round pick to get Cameron Johnson from the Nets' trade. He signed Hardaway Jr. and Bruce Brown with a basic salary contract, and finally used Salic to trade 1 for 1 to get Valancius. The latest news says that Valan will not play in Europe. He will play for the Nuggets next season and play a substitute for Yo-teacher.

Do you think Hardaway is suitable for the Nuggets? If the full score is 10, how many points do you give the Nuggets' operations?