Originally Posted by
DRDJ1
Although I do highly respect your opinion, I can't possibly correlate the Parsons situation with Austin. Chandler was the 38th pick in the second round in 2011, was paid 850,000 in 2012 and signed to a 46 million dollar contract by the Mavs. He was on the second team rookie of the year team. The reason he was "paid" was because he over-performed. Austin was the 10th pick in the 2012 draft on an over 7 million dollar 3 year guaranteed salary with an option that was over 3 million and has under-performed. I have to believe that Dell and the organization understand his value and do not think he is worth a 3 million dollar price tag on the open market. That doesn't mean that he will or will not be resigned next year but the organization obviously thinks that he can be replaced if needed at a lower price. For example, they signed Jimmer for less than 1 million dollars and I'm not sure if they think Austin is out performing Jimmer at 3 times the cost. Don't get me wrong, I'm not implying that Jimmer is a better player than Austin but he may be a better value. Hell, I don't even know how Russ is competing against Austin in practice even though I haven't seen anything to suggest that Russ could stick.