Dillon Brooks’ summer just keeps getting better and better.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported this weekend that Brooks’ new deal with the Houston Rockets officially works out to four years and $86M. It also has another $4M in incentives that could bring the total value to a staggering $90M.
Brooks’ deal was previously reported to be worth $80m over the four years. But since it was officially part of a sign-and-trade with the Memphis Grizzlies, the numbers ended up working out slightly differently … and in Brooks’ favor at that.
This isn’t just a salary floor expenditure for Houston either since they would be pretty close to the floor for next season even without Brooks (especially after giving Fred VanVleet a huge free agent deal of his own). They really seem to believe that Brooks deserves to be one of the dozen or so highest-paid small forwards in the entire NBA.
The good news for the Rockets is that the Internet got off all its jokes about Brooks’ new contract already. A few more million sent Brooks’ way won’t really hurt the Rockets too much more on the World Wide Web.
More must-reads: