Guys, you can extend your own free agents at 12:01. Read the ESPN article to show that the teams did it for James, Bosh, Wade, Melo, etc. "EXTENDING" a player doesn't affect this year's cap. Roy's salary for this year is already locked in. That's why there are things like Poison Pill Provisions and Base Year Contracts. Because this entire year he'll be making 3.9M and yet have a signed max extension.
Always after. It's why the picks, if indeed they are staying here, won't be signed until after we are set in free agency either. Doesn't mean he can't present a contract to Roy though
But Roy isn't a free agent. It would be a contract extension. He's already signed and on the books for $3.9 million for the 2009-10 season. Any extension he signs would not go into affect until after his current contract is up and will have no impact on our cap space this summer. BNM
I'm lame, but I'm asking anyway. Isn't there a RFA scale that is supposed to be used when offering a contract? So if the Lakers offer the highest contract within the scale they will automatically re-obtain Ariza? Or am I thinking NFL? I suck at this stuff, and clearly I haven't retained anything you guys have been talking about the last 3 months. Haha... I guess my point is this - if RFA's work like I thought they did Portland would have limited ability to "drive up the price." They would only be able to offer the highest contract available within the scale then LA could match. ?????
Any extensions Roy or Aldridge get now take effect only in 2010. A max extension to Roy tonight doesn't affect our capspace this off-season in anyway.
Oh, wow. Ok. Then, if the Lakers match he automatically goes to the Lakers. I think the whole scale thing is NFL. EDIT: I love the idea of driving up his price. LOVE IT!
Correct about the matching part. I don't kno wabout the NFL part of it. The L*kers would have 2 weeks to match it. I think it's a PG.
Hey, I'm not sure if everybody's aware of this... but I heard just the other day that the clock stops when the whistle's blown!
If it is Roy . . is it really neccessary to call him at 9:01 PM to offer the extention? I'm guessing the Blazers could take a week to call and still get Roy to sign for the max.
Wouldn't the offer count against Portland's cap space while Ariza considered the move? By the end of those two weeks, the only really decent free agents (of which there are but a few) would all be gone. If Ariza then went back to LA, Portland would be left with nothing. Ariza isn't worth it.
Agreed. Too much of a risk on a player that is trying to parlay a nice Finals performance into an overpaid contract. It should be an offer to Hedu or Andre Miller instead.
Wait are you talking about Hedo or Ariza? Both potentially work in that statement. Ariza would be a better pick up but do you want to bring him on the team? You'd almost have to trade Rudy then. I wish Ariza hadn't done that foul. I coveted him all year long until that foul...
