Title: How Raptors’ salary-cap picture looks after Scottie Barnes’ contract extension
Date: June 24, 2024
Original Source: Sportsnet
Synopsis: In my latest at Sportsnet, I wrote about the Raptors giving Scottie Barnes a max extension and how it sets up their roster-building around him from here.
What has long been implied is now on paper: The Toronto Raptors are Scottie Barnes’s team for the foreseeable future.
Barnes and the Raptors will sign a maximum extension to Barnes’ rookie-scale contract once they are allowed to do so on July 6, as first reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Monday. That new contract will pay Barnes an estimated $224.9 million over five years in its basic construction, beginning in 2025-26, and up to $269.9 million if Barnes hits certain escalators in the 2024-25 season. More on the contract details, which are important but not the headline item, in a moment.
In inking Barnes to this maximum allowable extension, the Raptors are confirming what they’ve shown more or less since they selected Barnes with the No. 4 pick in the 2021 NBA Draft: That they believe he can be a franchise cornerstone for the team in their next contending era.
Blake Murphy Sports Writing 