Miami Heat: 3 reasons to love the Duncan Robinson extension

By Jack Simone | Aug 4, 2021

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Why the Duncan Robinson extension is great for the Miami Heat: Shooting now comes at a premium in the NBA

While it may seem like the Miami Heat overpaid for Robinson, this is simply the price of shooting in the NBA nowadays. Shooters are being paid now more than ever.

The best examples are Joe Harris and Davis Bertans, both of whom got paid last offseason. Each of them got massive contracts very similar to Robinson’s.

Harris inked a four-year, $72 million deal to stay with the Nets last season. As for Bertans, he signed a five-year, $80 million contract with Washington.

The contract will make Harris around $18 million per year, while Bertans will earn around $16 million per season. Robinson’s deal will have him earn around $18 million per year as well.

Paying a shooter like Robinson close to $100 million seems like a lot, but the harsh reality is that that’s the price to pay for quality shooters nowadays. The Miami Heat did what they had to do to keep him around.

If they had refused to pay him anymore, another team would have swooped in and signed him themselves. That’s the way the world works.

Losing Robinson for nothing would have been much worse than keeping him for the contract they gave him. The Miami Heat paid Robinson the big bucks, but that’s just the name of the game.

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