Lowe: Nurkic is taking qualifying offer

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Most league executives expect a cool market for restricted free agents, which could lead to a few of them -- including Smart -- signing one-year qualifying offers and entering unrestricted free agency next summer. Dallas might have feared this when it withdrew Doug McDermott's qualifying offer mere hours after tendering it.

Smart and Jusuf Nurkic look like the best candidates for this strategy. Nurkic turned down a rich, four-year extension in the fall, league sources say, and might struggle to find any team other than Portland willing to offer more than the midlevel. Portland could try to retain him long-term at a courtesy salary just above that -- say, $11 million or $12 million per year -- and dare Nurkic to do better.
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Another tidbit regarding Dame's pending supermax:
Anthony Davis is technically extension eligible but he has not met the years of service criteria (seven or eight years) for a super max even after earning All-NBA honors in consecutive seasons. Davis is eligible for a three-year, $98 million extension that would start in 2020-21, but he will wait until next July, when he can sign the largest contract in NBA history -- five years, $228 million.

Earning All-NBA honors this season will leave Damian Lillard waiting another year to become super max eligible. Lillard will need to be selected All-NBA again to be eligible for a $185 million extension in 2019, as opposed to two extra seasons now for a total of $80 million.
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julius said:
these huge contracts are going to cripple this league.
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They will certainly cripple some franchises. I'm a huge fan of Dame but paying him $185M over 5 years (?) at that point in his career just doesn't make financial sense unless the playoff results are a lot different.
 
julius said:
these huge contracts are going to cripple this league.
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Disagree. They will indirectly allow for more competitive balance eventually.

In my estimation there are two ways to disallow super teams:
1. Get rid of max contracts, but keep the salary cap--- Let teams pay their main guys however much they want. If one player warrants a $50 mil deal on the open market, there will be far less available to pay everyone else.
2. Expansion-- self explanatory. Think the league is ripe for it.
3. Do away with the cap completely, but keep a tax-- If an owner wants to pay $500 mil for a superteam, go right ahead, but this franchise will be running at a loss even with all the winning. This won't happen.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Disagree. They will indirectly allow for more competitive balance eventually.

In my estimation there are two ways to disallow super teams:
1. Get rid of max contracts, but keep the salary cap--- Let teams pay their main guys however much they want. If one player warrants a $50 mil deal on the open market, there will be far less available to pay everyone else.
2. Expansion-- self explanatory. Think the league is ripe for it.
3. Do away with the cap completely, but keep a tax-- If an owner wants to pay $500 mil for a superteam, go right ahead, but this franchise will be running at a loss even with all the winning. This won't happen.
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Im saying if things stand pat, it'll cripple the league.
 
julius said:
Im saying if things stand pat, it'll cripple the league.
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I think it's working. Just not well. The loophpoles that allowed GS to form are taking away from the fact that OKC will be limited to two stars with Russ' supermax, same with WAS and Wall, and DET with Blake, etc etc. The ability to get a 5th yr also a legit reason why PG is considering staying in OKC and not going to a large market, and why Cousins was staunchly against getting traded from SAC. The framework is there to create a more competitive, balanced league. Just needs refining and some of these loopholes filled.

I think it will be a boon for us when we try to keep Dame past 2020.
 
I’d rather have boogie on a prove it deal, that’s a decent big 3, especially with Collins as the 4
 
yuyuza1 said:
Disagree. They will indirectly allow for more competitive balance eventually.

In my estimation there are two ways to disallow super teams:
1. Get rid of max contracts, but keep the salary cap--- Let teams pay their main guys however much they want. If one player warrants a $50 mil deal on the open market, there will be far less available to pay everyone else.
2. Expansion-- self explanatory. Think the league is ripe for it.
3. Do away with the cap completely, but keep a tax-- If an owner wants to pay $500 mil for a superteam, go right ahead, but this franchise will be running at a loss even with all the winning. This won't happen.
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4. Have an arbitration committee determine the top 10 Players in the league, who will be allowed them to make 45% of the cap with a minimum contract making 1%. Player 11-20 could make 40%. Cap hits (not salary) for these "elite" max contracts could be the default 30% only if a team drafted them and doesn't have a player signed via free agency for over 25% of the cap, and hasn't traded for a Top 20 player in the past 3 years.
 
i wonder who would have ever thought we'd value and pay nurk the same as meyers.

what a great contract that one was! (for meyers at least.)
 
BlayZa said:
i wonder who would have ever thought we'd value and pay nurk the same as meyers.

what a great contract that one was! (for meyers at least.)
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After Nurkic signs his new contract, he can sextuple his money by killing Leonard and stealing his money. Meyers should hire some home security, like Nurkic, Sr.
 
tykendo said:
Collins is not a center, he has a small frame build.
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Reep said:
Certainly he is too stupid to ever be able to play the position. Or is it his 7' tall body and 9'3" standing reach that makes it impossible. Maybe it is his 44% defensive field goal percent within 10 feet of the rim that makes it impossible for him to play center. Which one do you think it is?

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/colliza01.html
http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4066650/zach-collins
http://www.nba.com/players/zach/collins/1628380

But, I'm sure you know more than Basketball-Reference, ESPN and the NBA about what position Collins is.
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It's his wire-thin legs. He'll have to brace them at a 45° angle to defend guys the weight of Nurkic.
 
I haven't read this whole thread. What is the status right now? Did Nurk take the QO and now we have him for the upcoming season or is something else still in play?
 
KingSpeed said:
I haven't read this whole thread. What is the status right now? Did Nurk take the QO and now we have him for the upcoming season or is something else still in play?
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He’s still a RFA.

He has not signed nor accepted the QO.
 
KingSpeed said:
So we're waiting for him to sign an offer sheet elsewhere? Or we're negotiating a deal for him to stay? Could this be holding up other moves?
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If he gets an offer sheet we can match, if not and we can't come to agreement then he decides to play for the QO and be a UFA next summer
 
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