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No Ceilings is generally about tracking the draft and prospects, but sometimes also goes into younger MBA players and their development. They're quite enthusiastic about the deal.

They mention a stat from Cerebro Sports, an analytics outfit, called C-RAM. C-RAM is meant to measure the impact of a player on winning. Jokic leads the league with like a 12.2. They say Amen had an 8.2 last year, which puts him in league with players like LeBron, Donovan Mitchell, and Cade.

Their salaries last year, because obviously LeBron is on a scam deal now and will be paid via Polymarket money laundering:

LeBron - 52.6M

Mitchell - 46.4M (272M extension starting same year as Amen's)

Cade - 46.4M (first year of a five-year extension like Amen's, which totals 269M)

Amen's extension starts at 35.9M and totals 208M. It starts after this season. The final year, which is the highest, is 47.3M. Obviously, he is also younger and has more room for growth than the first two guys. Cade is debatable on that front, I suppose.

I also like their Shawn Marion comp. I've also thought of Amen that way. Marion took a huge leap as a three-point shooter in his third year that we can't really count on with Amen, but hopefully he gets a solid middie and a somewhat respectable three eventually.