Our man Duncan Robinson is going to get PAID
Duncan Robinson is going to get a huge contract. Very happy for the guy. Deserves every penny.
https://www.si.com/nba/2021/08/02/2021-nba-free-agency-preview-rumors-buzz
Duncan Robinson ranks among the best shooters in this year’s class. Hard to see Miami letting Robinson walk, however, with several execs expecting to see Robinson re-up with the Heat on a new deal that averages in the neighborhood of $18 million per season.
August 2nd, 2021 at 12:31 PM ^
I'm happy for him. He deserves it.
You must be super happy now. He is getting $90 million
August 2nd, 2021 at 12:43 PM ^
Heat fans on reddit are suggesting that they literally can't afford to not match because he's one of the only shooters on the team (especially with Bam/Jimmy being the predominant ballhandlers, and DeRozan rumors).
August 2nd, 2021 at 12:47 PM ^
I think Duncan improved his D this year. While he isn't great, he is no longer a detriment for the Heat.
Agree. His D has improved more than I would have thought possible. If only Nik S had worked as hard once he got to the NBA.
Williams College starter -> Michigan rotation player -> Undrafted NBA free agent -> Miami Heat two-way contract -> Permanent Miami Heat rotation player - > Miami Heat starter -> potential 9-figure contract.
Now that's what I call a $100 million story.
Jalen Coleman-Lands may end up with a doctorate. That isn't so bad either!
Yeah, felt like his defense was a bit stronger during the Finals run, but that was also a different team and may have caught some teams by surprise.
Still really excited for him and feels like he's going to be around the league for a while now.
Does that mean you're finally okay with Duncan? Though you couldn't resist a couple of shots for old times sake.
August 2nd, 2021 at 12:50 PM ^
Great to see, very happy for him. He seems to be a very bright, grounded young man who could turn his next deal into generational wealth. Still love that he keeps a LinkedIn profile.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-robinson-6b613314a
Congrats Duncan!
August 2nd, 2021 at 12:52 PM ^
Here's a little known fact about Duncan Robinson. He started off at Williams College which is a Division 3 school.
Here's another fact, his college coach at Michigan, John Beilein, was never an assistant coach.
What?! That's unbelievable!!
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What?! Sarcasm?! That's unbelievable!!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
here's another little known sports fact: Clayton Kershaw and Matt Stafford grew up playing baseball together.
If what you say is true, then why hasn't the media picked up on it? Why do these "facts" of yours never get mentioned?
Did you know that Charles Matthews once played for Kentucky?
Yet another alleged "fact". Next, you'll be telling me Juwan Howard has never been a head coach before.
Here's another thing. Keith Jackson dies every January and is resurrected prior to college football season only to die again in January.
Pssh, that's ridiculous. Whoa Nellie indeed.
This [NFL Tight End] was actually a college basketball player and didn't play football until his junior year.
Tim Hardaway Jr. gets a shout at the end of the article. Nice to see all these Beilein guys about to get paid in the next couple of weeks.
Wilson, Iggy, Burke, and Moe Wagner are going to be lucky to get the minimum unfortunately. My guess is only Burke and Wagner get guaranteed contracts of those 4. Hope I'm wrong though. Guessing THJ gets about 3 years/ 50 million and Duncan gets 4 years / 72 million similar to Joe Harris.
Burke definitely should. After a couple rocky years, he's been improving steadily the past two.
Burke signed a $10M deal for 3 years in November 2020...
THJr is getting $74M over 4 years
Go figure. Stauskas is out of the league, and D-Rob is going to make 15-20 million a year. I would not have predicted things would go this way.
Well deserved! Basketball program makes us proud!
Crazy how Duncan, who not only wasn't really a starter on that 2018 Final Four team but wasn't even drafted either, is looking like he'll nonetheless have the best pro career of anyone on that squad (that included two 1st rounders and a 2nd). Maybe Poole will end up eclipsing him, but Robinson has carved out a hell of a career for someone I think most here doubted would ever even make the NBA.
Which raises a question--was he massively underutilized at Michigan? Or did he significantly improve?
I know he has talked about his work with the Heat really upping his game, but nothing he talked about seemed like things he couldn't have been working on in college.
It never seemed like Michigan did much to generate open shots for him. I realize the team was pretty damn good anyway.
I think what really makes him stick in the NBA is his continued improvement to hit shots while in motion. He really did not have that coming off the screen curl 3 point shot at Michigan because he did not have to. He is elite at doing that now. As long as he can hit that shot he will be in the league for a long time.
I know he didn't have that shot at Michigan, but wouldn't it have required someone to actually set a screen for him? I don't remember much of that happening at Michigan--he just seemed to float on the wings and wait for the defense to get drawn away from him by a penetration. If the other team stuck someone to him who didn't help, he was just not open.
Beilein didn't really do much off-ball screens and movement, was all about ball screens and the other people spacing the floor. Now imagine if Duncan had gone to Purdue...
Probably a bit of both. I have not had a chance to dig it up yet, but Robinson gave an interview as he was attracting press for his rise up Miami's roster. In it, I recall him attributing his success to a massive amount of work (and thus, improvement) on skills that would make him more valuable in the NBA. Robinson implied that he put a lot more effort into transforming and improving his game once he sniffed the NBA and realized he wasn't going to stick around on innate talent alone.
Yeah, that was what I always thought was the difference between Robinson and Stauskas - Stauskas never seemed to demonstrably improve as a shooter once he got to the NBA, and he didn't have the athleticism to make up for it when the defenders got better (plus his defense never improved). I don't think that's necessarily his fault - the Kings were/are an awfully run place while Miami may be the best in the league. Young guys can only improve so much if the systems around them are bad, but that feels like a key difference in their diverging careers.
Stauskas seemed to lose confidence in himself and never got it back. Maybe he just never fully adjusted to the longer NBA 3.
Stauskas went were NBA dreams go to die. The Kings are a dumpster fire from the front office on down. So glad that Franz did not end up there. By the time he got shipped out of there it was too late. I think he could have been a rotation player on the right squad.
It’s also math; Robinson’s accuracy has been insane. In most cases it’s like, who cares if he gets burned on defense now and then? He hits threes, at high volume, at basically the same pace a league-average wing hits twos. If his accuracy was just a few points lower, Spo would have a much tougher decision to make.
Thank you for not using “begs the question”.
I think Caris will have the best NBA career because he's a better player than Duncan.
August 3rd, 2021 at 11:16 AM ^
I agree, but LeVert wasn't on the 2018 team...
Well deserved pay range for the other DRob! He's earned it through hard work and perseverance, and I'm really happy for him.
THJr gets 4 years/$72mil to stay in Dallas. Nice chunk of change!
They're saying 4 for 74 now. We'll see what it really is though.
What’s an extra $2mil here or there between friends, ya know?
5 years/$90mil for Duncan. Largest contract ever given to an undrafted player in NBA history.
Guy was a zero-star recruit that started in D3 and is going to make 9-figures balling. What a story.