<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> The Clippers' Corey Maggette will wait until after this season to decide if his future lies with the team.</p> Maggette is eligible for a contract extension, but he and his agent, Rob Pelinka, said they plan to let the Oct. 31 deadline pass, which would allow Maggette to opt out of the final year of his contract next summer and become an unrestricted free agent.</p> Pelinka said it is more prudent to wait until that time because Maggette, 27, then could be signed to a six-year extension by the Clippers or, if he decided to test the free-agent market, he could mull over five-year contract offers from other teams.</p> Per NBA rules, the maximum number of years the Clippers could extend Maggette's contract at this time would be three years averaging $8.5 million. The Clippers offered that, but Maggette and Pelinka declined.</p> Maggette has two years and $14 million remaining on his contract, but the Clippers expect him to opt out of the final year.</p> "We offered him (Maggette) an extension this summer for the maximum that we were able to offer," said Andy Roeser, the Clippers executive vice president. "We understand why they turned it down. But it's understood that Corey's an important part of our team and that we want him to stay."</p> Maggette said he would not allow the impending process to disturb him this season. With Elton Brand to be out for most, if not the entire season while recovering from a ruptured left Achilles' tendon, the Clippers are looking for Maggette to be the scorer he was during back-to-back seasons in 2003-04 and 2004-05, when he averaged 20.7 and 22.2 points per game, respectively.</p> "I'm just going to concentrate on the team and eventually we'll see how everything works out," Maggette said. "That's why players have agents. So we can concentrate on basketball."</div></p> Source: OCRegister</p> Corey Maggette has the opportunity for a career season with Brand out for the majority of the year. He should be able to average over 20PPG and lead the Clippers in scoring this season. It will be interesting to see how what the Clippers do with Maggette. He's mentioned in trade rumors every season, and by declining the max offer, the writing is on the wall.</p> </p>
Not a shock in my opinion. Maggette is set for a career year, like you said, so why accept a 3 year offer when he could cash in on at least a 5 year contract at 8.5 per in the offseason? Not to mention I dont think he likes the idea of playing for Dunleavy, so I would expect him to be signed and traded this summer. I think Corey will want to play for a winner and will take less to do so.</p>
I kind of knew that he wasan't about too extend his contract he wants to win and he doesn't think that his going to win with the Clippers.If the Clippers can't extend his contract they should trade him.</p>
