If we had renounced the Euros yes I believe we could have offered 4 years 32 million but the yearly breakdown would have been different.
Second round picks only get two-year guaranteed contracts instead of the three-year variety that first-round picks do. That means they hit RFA earlier. However, to avoid second-round picks being able to cash in before first-round picks, they're also limited to a MLE max offer for the first two seasons of a new deal in the third year. It's referred to as the "Gilbert Arenas provision" I believe.
Yeah, I just read up and posted it. Still, there is no provision against a front-end bonus, like in the Millsap case, that had to be paid in cash within one week. If Sessions is such a great fit, Portland should have worked the contract with a bonus, and Milwaukee would not have matched it.
As long as that bonus didn't make the first year higher than the MLE. Which would make it a pretty weak "toxin." You're free to speculate. Only Senator Herb Kohl knows and he ain't saying.
Yes there is such a provision. The first year and second year can only be MLE equivalent. So we could not have front loaded a deal. The most that first year would have been was 5.8, or whatever the MLE is. Backloading a deal might have worked better against the Bucks, with Jennings in the pipe line. Paying 5 or 6 the next two years would not be that bad for them, but playing over 8 for Sessions in his 3rd year, after drrafting Jennings might have been a bigger deal.
Front load the deal and make the first payment mandatory within one week of signing, or don't, and make Milwaukee come up with the MLE cash when it looks like Jennings will be starting from day one. None of this happened.
Then don't, and do what I posted afterward. Do you think Milwaukee would match that type of contract for what looks like a back-up PG?
MLE? yes, I do think they would match a MLE deal. He would easily start there next season, and then they would have a valuable trade chip, on a good contract.
