Allen Crabbe will return to the Portland Trail Blazers after the team matched the four-year, $75 million offer sheet he signed with the Brooklyn Nets three days ago, according to The Vertical's Adrian Wojnarowski.
Allen Crabbe returns to the Blazers after Portland matches 4-year, $75 million offer sheet
The young 3-and-D wing will be returning to Portland.
Crabbe was a restricted free agent, meaning that the Trail Blazers had the right to match any contract he signed in free agency within a 72-hour period. The prevailing opinion was that Portland would not match the offer sheet for Crabbe and let him sign in Brooklyn, but the message sent by bringing him back shows that the Trail Blazers are fully committed to winning now.
Brooklyn signed two restricted free agents, Crabbe and Miami’s Tyler Johnson, and there’s a good chance they will now miss on both of them after Dwyane Wade’s decision to leave the Heat and sign with the Bulls. Johnson signed a four-year, $50 million offer sheet with the Nets.
Crabbe is a 24-year-old wing who is a quality three-and-D player with room to develop further. Last season, Crabbe averaged just over 10 points in 26 minutes per game, with 39 percent shooting on 3.5 attempts behind the arc. Blazer’s Edge generally favored matching Crabbe’s contract:
Yes, match the offer on Allen Crabbe. I’m not thrilled about it, because it’s a classic case of “overpay for the restricted free agent,” but match anyway. Even with the rise in the salary cap, Allen Crabbe is not worth that paycheck based on his on-court statistics. However, the modern game heavily values three-and-D players. Even if he never reaches the level that would make that salary reasonable, his contract would still be tradeable. And you never want to lose tradeable assets whenever possible.
Crabbe’s $75 million deal may also rise with incentives.
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