Paul Coro

azcentral sports

The Suns will pay their three rookies about $7 million combined this season after signing each of the June draft picks to four-year contracts Thursday.

First-round draft picks Dragan Bender, selected fourth overall by the Suns, and Marquese Chriss, acquired by the Suns via trade at No. 8, have their contracts' salaries slotted by the collective bargaining agreement based on where they were picked.

The Suns gave Bender and Chriss the maximum 120 percent of the salary scale. Each first-round pick gets two guaranteed contract years and then the team can exercise third- and fourth-year options a year in advance of those seasons.

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Bender will make $3.56 million this season and his four-year contract is potentially worth $16.1 million in total.

Chriss will make $2.45 million this season and his four-year contract is potentially worth $11.1 million in total.

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Ulis was selected 34th overall by Phoenix in the second round, where NBA contracts are not guaranteed. Second-round picks could be signed for as low as the league minimum of $543,471 but the Suns agreed to give Ulis the equivalent of a late first-round contract, giving the team four years of relatively low salary control and giving Ulis almost twice as much rookie money.

Ulis will make about $1 million this season and his four-year deal, which also has two guaranteed years and two team option years, is potentially worth about $5 million in total.

Once free agents Jared Dudley and Leandro Barbosa sign, the Suns will have 15 players under contract, including John Jenkins' and Alan Williams' non-guaranteed deals.

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Jenkins' 2016-17 salary of $1.05 million becomes guaranteed Monday if he remains on the roster while Williams, who is playing on the Suns' NBA Summer League team this month, has a 2016-17 salary of $875,000 that would become guaranteed on Sept. 1 if he remains on the roster.

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