※ 引述《kakala99 (Fernando Torres #9)》之銘言
: “Like I said it’s unfortunate because it’s not reflective of our
: commitment, our desire to Deandre. It’s just at that point in time, we couldn
: ’t come to an agreement.”
: “For us and for a multitude of reasons that the five-year max wasn’t
: something that we were gonna do. We just couldn’t get beyond that and so
: everything else really didn’t matter,” Jones said. “Nothing else really
: happened. No other conversations were considered.
: 對我們而言，基於多種原因，開出五年頂薪合約是我們不會去做的事情。
: 消息來源：https://reurl.cc/n5m0oe
不簽五年就跟王桑之前那篇提到的一樣，太陽是願意簽頂薪，只是希望長度是4年，而不是A
yton團隊堅持的5年，太陽不開出五年頂薪，太陽GM解釋：為了讓球隊保持競爭力，能夠交
易換得別隊五年指定球員的機會
Jones highlighted as part of the Suns’ thinking: If they had given Ayton the de
signated rookie max extension like they didDevin Bookerin the summer of 2018,
that move would have limited their ability to pursue stars on other teams who ha
ve already been given designated rookie max deals. Per the rules of the league’
s collective bargaining agreement, teams can’t have more than two players on de
signated rookie max extensions.
根據NBA規定，每隊最多只能有兩個指定提前續約五年的球員，太陽已經有Devin Booker，
若再給Ayton五年頂薪，就沒辦法在不動這兩人的情況下，另外交易其他身背五年頂薪的球
員。
https://reurl.cc/pxay8d
這是雙方談判無法達成共識的主因