The Miami Heat should pay Duncan somewhere between what Joe Harris and Davis Bertans got, but just over Harris’s number is tolerable.
He’s better than Bertans. He does about the same things that Bertans does on the floor, except Duncan does them better at this point.
Neither is really much of a driver and both are still developing defenders. With that, if you needed to trust one in each of either category, Duncan would be the guy with the highest trust level in both.
When it comes to Harris, he does more than Duncan. Harris is capable of putting the ball on the floor to finish in the mid-ranged area, such as floaters or push-shots, or all the way at the rim.
Though Duncan has shown progression there this season, he isn’t quite as advanced as Harris is there yet. What’s that all mean then?
When looking at it from a surface perspective, he seems to be somewhere between these guys, as far as how good of a player he is. It would seem logical to award him somewhere between what these guys got when looking at his contract then as well, right?
He will definitely get the $16M per that Bertans got, while they should be willing to potentially go was high as $19M, just over what Harris got. Anything much higher than that is doing themselves a disservice, as though he is valuable and worth whatever they end up paying him, he’ll hurt you more than he helps at anything over that number.