Was just reading some posts over on the ESPN boards, and noticed someone mentioning how we could trade Radmanovic if he signed the QO. My understanding was that you couldn't trade a player on a 1 year tender, but I've always known the poster to be knowledgeable concerning this type of stuff. Was wondering if anyone could post what they knew about it. If we can, it totally hamstrings Rad into signing the deal on the table - he can threaten to leave, but we can counter by saying we'll either not play him all year or we'll move him. Funny how I say it hamstrings Rad into signing a deal that I consider to be overpaying for his services in the first place. Just nice to know that is an option...is it???
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">So if the player really wants to leave, he can accept his original team's qualifying offer, which constitutes a one-year contract at a scale salary. The player must play with his original team for one more season, but following that season he will be an unrestricted free agent, and can then sign with any other team. </div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">If the player is playing under a one-year contract and will have Larry Bird or Early Bird rights at the end of the contract, he can't be traded at all. </div> Source Doesn't sound like it's possible.
The NBA has to give young players some options when they are playing under their rookie contract. This is why is pays to be a general manager: <ul>As it stands right now, the salaries of players rookie contracts are already predetermined in regards to where they were picked in the draft (regardless of how much cap room the team that drafts them has).[/list] <ul>Player's contract can be terminated after their second year (as a first rounder, new CBA rule) but the player can't become an unrestricted free agent until their fifth year.[/list] <ul>Players are always restricted free agents in their first contract year and must sign a qualifying offer sheet with their current team if they want to become an unrestricted free agent.[/list] <ul>Players can be traded at anytime--provided they haven't signed a qualifying offer.[/list] Being a restricted free agent only gives you the opportunity to sign an offer sheet. If the team that you currently play for wants to keep you all they have to do is match that sheet and you can no longer provide the team that offered the contract to you your basketball services. If a player is willing to take a pay cut in order to gain access to unrestricted free agency he should be able to play out the season knowing that he won't be moved. That seems to be the only thing fair when it comes to the negotiating power of a player in his rookie contract. The weight of the negotiations only tips in the player's favor after they sign their second contract.
Just found out that Rad CAN be traded even though he signed the QO. A provision under the new CBA allows players signing the QO to be moved, but it looks as if he would have to consent. Might be a long shot to find a team to give us back something of value, who probably will have to be willing to extend him almost immediately, and have Rad agree - but at least its not impossible. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A player signed to a one-year contract who would be a Bird or Early Bird player at the conclusion of his contract cannot be traded without the player?s consent. If the player consents and is traded, he will lose whatever ?Bird? rights he has acquired (i.e., he will be considered to have moved to the new team as a free agent). (The rule prohibiting such players from being traded has been eliminated.) </div> http://www.insidehoops.com/nba-collective-...agreement.shtml My guess is the guy isn't going to refuse a trade to a team that obviously wants him and risk rotting on the bench here the rest of the season, decreasing his value even further. But I wouldn't have expected him to leave 42 million on the table either, so we'll see.
