Walker qualified for the supermax extension from the Hornets after making the third-team All-NBA this season, which could pay him more than $220 million over five years. But yes, I would love to be in Charlotte." But if it doesn't work out I'm definitely prepared to play somewhere else. I don't know how many times I can say it. "I don't know how many times I can say that. I’m prepared.”Īsked Kemba if he still wants to be in Charlotte. “This is where I want to be and if it doesn’t work out, it just doesn’t. Walker said he doesn’t have a timetable for signing a contract but added he wouldn’t mind getting it done as soon as possible.Īsked if he was confident he’d re-sign with Charlotte, Walker shrugged his shoulders and said, “I have no clue. I don’t know if I will sign back with them, but they are my first priority.” “I have been here for eight years, and it’s the team that drafted me,” Walker said. * Will lean on agent Jeff Schwartz throughout processīut Walker has repeatedly said he loves playing and living in Charlotte. * He'd take less than the supermax to help build around him Plans to meet with other NBA teams before deciding. Short version of what said: are his first priority, but that doesn’t make it automatic he re-signs in Charlotte. There has been plenty of speculation about where Walker might end up, including with the New York Knicks because he grew up in the Bronx. Like I said Charlotte is my first priority and I have to see what (the Hornets) have to offer, as well as other teams.” “That all factors in (to my decision) when I sit down with the teams and hear what guys have to say,” Walker said. The 29-year-old Walker said he’s eager to hear what other teams have to offer. ![]() Speaking at his youth basketball camp, Kemba Walker said he would take less than the supermax from the #Hornets to help build a team around him. ![]() He reiterated that he’d love to stay here. Kemba says he would take less than the supermax to stay in Charlotte. Kemba's exact words when he was asked if he'd be willing to take less than the supermax to help the #Hornets build a team around him: "Yeah, why not? Yeah I would be. I would take less, yeah,” Walker said when asked if he’d take less than the supermax to help the Hornets build around him. Other NBA teams can only offer a four-year deal worth $140 million when free agency begins June 30. He told reporters at the camp, which was held at Ardrey Kell High School in south Charlotte, that his willingness to do so was to help the Hornets build a better team around him going forward.īecause Walker was named to an All-NBA team this season, the Hornets can offer him a five-year “supermax” contract worth up to $221 million – significantly more than the five-year, $190 million deal had he not been named All-NBA. READ NEXT: Draymond Green Trade: Odds Have Warriors Star in L.A.Charlotte Hornets guard Kemba Walker has less than two weeks to go until he officially enters unrestricted free agency.Īt his basketball camp in Charlotte today, the Hornets star said he’d be open to taking less than the supermax this summer. Numbers like that can go a long way towards explaining why a team walks away with a loss and essentially wastes a monster game like the one we witnessed from Walker on Saturday. If you aren’t interested in doing the math, this means aside from Charlotte’s three players in double figures, the other eight combined to score just 29 points. The team’s two other starters in Nicolas Batum and Marvin Williams were unable to do much of anything, combining to score just four points. After the 80 points from those two players combined, Cody Zeller finished with 10 while every other Hornet was in single-digits on this night.ĭwayne Bacon and Miles Bridges, who both came off the bench, each had nine points. ![]() If that lone stat above wasn’t eye-opening enough, consider that Hornets shooting guard Jeremy Lamb added 20 points of his own in the loss. KEMBA WALKER WITH A NEW CAREER-HIGH 56 POINTSĪND HE SHRUGS DOWN THE COURT ?♂️?♂️?♂️ /7f90KElpn3
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