Best of NBA News Part 2: Spurs PROBLEMS, Trae Young DECLINES option & Knicks NO SEX rule

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:30)
He's expected to earn $2 million in the final year of the deal in 2930
He'll be just 32 years of age.
It's expected that calls for Harper's Camp for a spark in the starting lineup will grow louder and louder going into the next season. But it's not an issue San Antonio needs to address right now. Fox contract won't become a potential eyesore until Wimby's upcoming rookie extension kicks in. And when the Spurs are looking to next summer to extend Castle, what should be a max deal? Joe, it's a great thing to have young talent. We saw this with OKC. They get Shay done. You get J-Dub done. You get Chet done. But damn, and okay, you just gave Fox his money. Wimby gonna want his money. Castle gonna want his money. Something you have to do with Harper. You can't have four guys on a max contract. I don't give a damn how many you with it.

**Chad Johnson** (1:28)
How many can you have?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:29)
Probably three at the most. Three? Yeah, three at the most.
And then you gonna end up having to get off one of them. But at the same time, if I'm saying Antonio, you know, you kind of ride it to Fox, I mean, for the next couple of years, because you're gonna be able to pay Wimby. You'll be able to pay Castle. But when Harper come up, somebody has got to go. Somebody got to go. It's just period point blank. I'm saying.

**Chad Johnson** (1:54)
Hold on. Why do you have to go?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:55)
You just said you're gonna have to pay him max dollars. You can't have four max guys on your team, Ocho. Yeah.
You'll be in the second tier. You'll be playing more in bonus and penalties than you were salaries.

**Chad Johnson** (2:10)
But that means Fox will be gone by that time. And you should stick with Javon.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:14)
Yeah, well, I mean, you gotta, but that's what I'm saying. They would have to move off one of them. That's what Joe is saying. And you can't have four, the max you could have is three. And then when you have three, because I think OKC is gonna lose Wallace. Wallace is gonna want big bucks. Somebody's gonna pay Wallace big bucks. A guy that can shoot a three, a guy that can defend like that, Joe, they can't take him. I think they probably gonna lose Dork versus, I think they're gonna try to keep Wallace on. How you gonna keep him? Joe, he gonna want 25 million a year. Man, if I'm OKC, it's gonna be hard to let Wallace go, bruh. How you got a choice, Joe? You remember now, you still got those three first-round picks that you need to do something with. You have to let them go. You have to trade them. Oh, yeah. You got what? And you got Caruso on big bucks and no whammy.
And you got Harden. What you gonna do? You gonna let Harden Stein go? Hey, listen, at some point, man, some of them got... I think the most disheartening thing with OKC is that they were hampered with injuries throughout this whole postseason. So you never really got to see what they were like at full strength. So I don't count them out. I still think, you know, they got a chance if they healthy. If J. Dub can stay healthy, but damn, to lose Wallace and Dort, those are your blue collar hard working guys, bro. If you lose them to him, damn.
Well, you gonna lose Dort. You're not gonna pay Dort. I think you're not gonna pay Dort. He's gonna be looking for 20 something million. You're not paying him that there. And Wallace is gonna be a wanting 20, 25 million. I don't see them paying him that there, especially when you got Caruso on the number that you got him on. I see you, bro. I see you.
I think when you look at it, if I'm casing Wallace, you know, cause man, it ain't always, it ain't always a given that when you go to another team, bro, that you gonna shine like you think you are. You know what I mean? Like, would it pay me my money? Would it pay me that 20? Would it pay me that five year, 125 million, Joe? Okay, that's what it, yeah, it look good to me.
I know a guy named Joe Johnson, say, hey man, you know, hey, Phoenix, don't mess this, don't mess this one over here because there's something over there. I don't know if we gonna win in Atlanta like we do in the Phoenix, but I came up with a single pair of home, I didn't go and get that. I knew we weren't gonna win like that, but see, here's the thing, when you are unrestricted, when you're a restricted free agent, it's like they'll tell all the teams, oh man, y'all might not want to pay Joe cause we gonna match anything that y'all gonna give him. So that's to scare off, that's to scare the other teams off so they can come in and low ball you, you know what I mean? Yeah, of course y'all. So it's times where you do, like me doing my negotiation period, I had to get on the phone with me and my agent, aren't tell him we on the phone with Robert Salva, and I had to tell him, hey look bro, don't match bro, just let me go bro, you know what I mean? So, Joe, where is this new at Joe? Don't you tell that girl, oh he ain't gonna do what I do for you. We do that all the time. Oh he, oh you think that man gonna take you on trips? You think he gonna buy you flour and buy these nice ass persons like me? So, listen, listen, I'm gonna be honest with you. I didn't really wanna have to do it, but my agent was like, man, you gonna have to get on the phone with him and tell him not to match, cause they scaring teams off. You feel what I'm saying? So, in Kacem Wallace's situation, we don't really know what he really thinking. Okay, do guys wanna get paid? Yes, but I think situation matters, too. You know what I mean? To some degree.