Paul Coro

azcentral sports

Now that Bogdan Bogdanovic added a Turkish League championship Monday to his accomplished young résumé, the Suns will enter contract negotiations in hopes of bringing their 2014 first-round pick to Phoenix with plenty of motivation.

Bogdanovic's accomplishments in winning the 2014 and 2015 Euroleague Rising Star, helping Serbia to earn the 2014 World Cup silver medal and leading Fenerbahce to be 2016 Euroleague runner-up, Turkish Cup champions and Turkish League champions offer enough motivation to sign the 23-year-old, 6-foot-6 guard for next season.

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There is financial motivation as well. This is the last year that Bodganovic would be required to sign on the NBA rookie scale as the Suns' No. 27 draft pick in 2014. That contract could pay him up to $5.7 million over four years, including two team options. The Suns are allowed to contribute as much as $650,000 toward Bogdanovic's buyout from Fenerbahce with Bogdanovic paying the remainder. The NBA-out clause in Bogdanovic's contract is more amenable than it was last year, although the specifics are not known.

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If Bogdanovic does not sign with the Suns this year, the Suns would retain his rights in 2017 but Bogdanovic could then negotiate a contract for any amount with the minimum being his draft year's rookie salary scale. Tiago Splitter is an example of that route. He was drafted 28th in 2007 by San Antonio and signed a three-year, $11 million contract in 2010 that doubled what he would have made on a rookie-scale, four-year contract.

On Friday, Suns General Manager Ryan McDonough said the Suns would allow Bogdanovic to have a few days after the Turkish League finals were complete before they talked to him by phone to "figure out before the draft if he's going to come over for next season." The draft is June 23.

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"We're tracking his progress closely," McDonough said. "Right now, we're just leaving him alone. We want him to be focused on trying to win the Turkish League championship."

Bogdanovic did just that, having a 16-point, seven-rebound performance in a 91-70 Game 6 rout of Anadolu Efes to win the series 4-2. Each team had gone 24-6 during Turkish League play. Bogdanovic averaged 14.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists with 46.4 percent 3-point shooting during Turkish League play. He averaged 11.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists with 37.0 percent 3-point shooting during Euroleague, where Fenerbahce lost the championship game 101-96 to CSKA Moscow in May.

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