According to reports, Kyrie Irving to give up the current contract, to sign with Dallas again for three years, $ 119 million

This was expected. After Luka Doncic’s trade, Dallas would have gone all-in on the combination of Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis, nor the Irving ACL tear or win the project lottery and the rights to select Cooper Flagg would have changed it.

Irving is about to give up his 43.9 million dollar contract for the next season and will sign again with the Maverks for three years, $ 119 million, Shams Charania reports by Espn. The last year of the agreement is a player option. It is a contract very similar to the one he signed three years ago in Brooklyn.

The Irving salary next season will be less than the one he opted, enough to move the Maverick under the second tax apron. It can open the use of the average level exception of the taxpayer of $ 5.7 This summer.

The Irving extension would probably have been more than he had not torn his ACL last season, an injury that should keep him out for the most part, if not for everyone, of the next season (Dallas is optimistic, he will return next season). Whether or not, this injury does not change the commitment of the Maverick on the path that are found for the next few years.

Irving marked on average 24.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.6 assists a game last season. Once healthy, Irving could be coupled in an initial formation with Klay Thompson to the two, Flagg and Davis as attackers and Dereck Lively II in the center – a quality that starts five that could make noise in the West if everything is clicking. Flagg gives Dallas a bridge for the future in a few years, after Irving era and Davis has taken its course.

In the short term, the Maverick are watching Dennis Schroder, Chris Paul, D’Angelo Russell and other short -term fillings in the point while Irving heals.