Dillon Brooks signed a 3-year, $73M fully guaranteed deal with Phoenix, turning from a controversial player into the team's core.
Dillon Brooks has officially signed his contract extension.
The three-year deal is worth a total of 73 million and is fully guaranteed, with no restrictions attached.
The news came as a surprise to many in the league.
Just a year ago, Dillon was labeled a troublemaker due to his rough play on the court and frequent off-court controversies, and was viewed by most teams as a potential locker-room threat.When the Suns acquired him from the Grizzlies via trade, the move was widely met with skepticism. Many critics believed the Suns’ front office had made a poor decision, and countless observers were waiting to see him disrupt the team’s chemistry.Over the past season, Dillon has remained focused on his on-court performance, turning a deaf ear to all kinds of off-court controversies and rarely responding to irrelevant questions from the media. During the playoffs, he repeatedly drove aggressively to the basket, averaging 26 points per game—a scoring output that even surpassed that of the team’s longtime star player.
A team had
previously offered Dillon a four-year, $125.4 million maximum contract—an offer that most players would likely have signed on the spot—but Dillon did not accept it.He ultimately chose a shorter-term, fully guaranteed contract, which preserved more long-term salary flexibility for the Suns and served as a way to repay the team for the trust they had placed in him.
With the official signing of this contract, the controversy surrounding Dillon’s contract extension with the Suns has finally come to a close. Once widely viewed by outsiders as a problem player, he has now grown into a core member of the Suns who can shoulder the team’s burdens, and is widely recognized as the team’s spiritual leader.The Suns’ long-standing salary cap issues have been successfully resolved, and the team’s premier defensive specialist is now confirmed to remain with the franchise for the long term. When the starting lineup for the new season is officially announced, it is sure to draw the attention of the entire league.
More often than not, those who are hastily judged by outsiders are simply waiting for an opportunity from someone willing to place their trust in them.
