Important development for Vezenkov: The Kings renewed with Barnes

The Kings came to an agreement with him Harrison Barnes for a new three-year contract, which will bring the 31-year-old forward a total of 54 million dollars, i.e. about 18 million dollars per year. The news was also confirmed by the player’s agent. With this move, Sacramento kept a key player at a good price, who was in demand in the market, while at the same time keeping a fairly good amount in the salary cap for his next moves.

The stay of Barnes, who competes in positions “3” and “4”, does not affect Sasha Vezenkov competitivelysince the Kings’ plan foresaw his stay anyway and they want to give the Bulgarian a complementary role in the forwards, behind Barnes and Keegan Murray.

The Kings have now available an amount in the order of 18 million dollars in the salary capas well as the Room Exception that reaches 8 million dollars. Their priority is to sign an extension with him Domantas Saboniswhich from the 22 million dollars a year will reach or exceed the 30 million dollars, therefore they will have another 10 million dollars available, plus the Room Exception, but also the Trade Exception (about 12 million dollars) which does not apply to Vezenkov as it can only be spent on a traded player.

After the matter of Sabonis is over, it will become clear the exact amount of the offer to Vezenkov. As long as it is close to 8 million dollars a year, we will talk about a “net” amount in the player’s accounts that will slightly exceed 4 million euros per year, while the 27-year-old ace will have to cover all 750,000 of the buy out of 1.5 million provided for Olympiakos, if he decides to go to the NBA. It is worth noting that the MVP of the Euroleague he is asking for a two-year, not three-year contract with the Kingsas on the one hand he does not want to commit to an NBA team for a long time before seeing the conditions there and on the other hand he believes that if he eventually goes to the USA, he will be able to significantly raise his cash in the first two years.

Now the next few days are particularly critical for the future of Sasha Vezenkov and Olympiakos, which, if the player does not choose the NBA, has told him that he will sign a new extension with wages that will exceed 9 million over four years and will approach 10 million euros “net”.