Not renewed yet! Is the 22-year-old Gidey worth 150 million in 5 years?

The free market has been open for several days, but Josh Gidedi still has not renewed the contract.

As the sixth pick in the first round of the 2021 class, Gidey had the qualification to renew his contract in advance last year, but unfortunately, not only did he not negotiate a contract renewal, he was also sent by the Thunder to the Bulls for Caruso alone.

After joining the Bulls, the contract renewal has not been reached. The latest news is that the Bulls have offered a qualification offer for Gidey. While ensuring priority for renewal, they continue to negotiate with Gidey. The main differences between the two sides are in the same number: an annual salary of 30 million.

First of all, a lot of maximum salaries were born in the 2021 class last year, including Cunningham, Mobley, and Barnes, who signed five-year maximum salaries. In addition, Jaylen Sages and Shin Kyung also received 150 million in five years and 185 million in five years.

Obviously, Giddy is not within the scope of maximum salary, but is the annual salary of 30 million? Similar to Sages' 5-year 150 million? Let’s talk about the conclusion first, it’s really not impossible.

This season, Giddy played in a total of 70 regular season games, averaging 30.2 minutes per game, scoring 14.6 points, 8.1 rebounds, 7.2 assists and 1.2 steals, shooting percentage in three events was 46.5%/37.8%/78.1%, and the real shooting percentage was 57.0%.

Leaving the Thunder made Gidedy miss the championship opportunity, but joining the Bulls did give him more room for development.

As a comparison, last season's Gidey averaged 25.1 minutes per game, scored 12.3 points, 6.4 rebounds, 4.8 assists, and 0.7 steals. The shooting percentages of the three events were 47.5%/33.7%/80.6%, and the real shooting percentage was 54.7%.

Among them, in the playoffs, Gidey played 10 games, averaged only 18.1 minutes of playing time, scored 8.7 points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 0.2 steals, and her real shooting percentage was 55.4%.

It should be said that Gidi's performance has gotten better and better as the season deepens. After the All-Stars, Lavin has left, and then Gidi shines.

19 games, Giddy won triple-double in 5 games, averaging 21.2 points, 10.7 rebounds and 9.3 assists per game (almost averaging triple-double), and has a huge efficiency improvement, with a three-in-one shooting percentage of 50.0%/45.7%/80.9%, and a real shooting percentage of 62.0%. During the period, Giddy played many masterpieces, such as in the two games against the Lakers, the Bulls won all of them. Giddy handed over 15 points, 10 rebounds, 17 assists, 8 steals, 24 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists, and also gave a very long three-pointer that was enough to be recorded in history.

The key point is that the Bulls won 12 games in these 19 games, and the importance of Giddy is fully reflected:

- When Giddy was on the court, the Bulls scored 121.2 points in 100 rounds, and 10.4 points in net defeat to their opponents

- Giddy was not present, the Bulls scored 109.2 points in 100 rounds, and lost 4.3 points in net loss to their opponents

Although there are not enough samples, any player can play nearly triple-double in 19 games, and lead the team to 12 wins in 19 games (the teams defeated also include strong teams such as the Nuggets and Magic), and the on/off value is as high as +14.7, which should be discussed more. The same is true for

Gidy. He didn't pay much attention to him before the All-Star. He talked about him more about Caruso's single-change transaction.

But after the All-Star, especially after the Lakers, more fans have focused on this tall Australian point guard.

Objectively speaking, Giddy did show some shortcomings during the Thunder period, especially in the series against the Mavericks last year's playoffs, Giddy's shortcomings of shooting were infinitely magnified by Kidd, so that she could not even play in the last two games.

But judging from this year's performance, Gidey has made a lot of progress, especially at the end of the regular season, the Bulls can win with Gidey as the core, and Gidey's shooting has also improved. The All-Stars averaged 1.9 three-pointers with a shooting percentage of 45.7%. In terms of advanced data, last season, Gidey had the highest BPM in the Bulls team, reaching +3.0. In addition, his WS+5.3 can also rank second in the team, second only to Vucevic (+7.3), who played the best season in the past few years.

Combined with Gidy's 22-year-old age, the effectiveness of the new broadcast contract, and the gradually rising salary cap, purely personal opinion, Gidy is worth 150 million in five years. If he can continue to maintain the level at the end of the regular season, he even has the hope to make this contract a super value contract.

However, the problem is also right. The free market environment this summer is too poor. Almost no team can offer Gidey an annual salary of 30 million, so the Bulls have the opportunity to lower the price - a similar example is Turner. If it is placed in a free market year, Turner should not only get a four-year, 107 million contract.

Only talk about Giddy, one thing is certain, the Bulls want to keep him and continue to build a team with him as the core, but the contract is really hard to say. After all, sometimes the contract not only depends on ability, but also related to the market environment. It will not be surprising if it reaches 150 million in five years, but it is also possible if it is only between 120 million and 150 million.

No matter what the final contract is, I hope Gidey can continue his magical performance next season - it is too difficult to average triple-double per game, but with the level of the last 19 games this year, the All-Stars will definitely not be able to escape.