Microfracture for Oden

[Denny Crane]

I'm not sure who you mean by "you." If you mean the player, that's wrong. If you could go straight to UFA by declining QOs, every good/great player would do that. RFA is for the team and players can't bypass it if the team wants to exercise it. If the team offers the QO, the player can decline it...but they remain RFA. Any deal they sign with another NBA franchise can be matched by their original team. They can go to Europe, ala Josh Childress, but their rights remain owned by their original NBA team until they either sign the QO and play out their RFA year or else the team voluntarily renounces their rights.

You forgot that a team can offer the QO, the player has some time period to sign, but the team can rescind the offer making him a UFA if he's not signed to that point.

 

[Minstrel]

You forgot that a team can offer the QO, the player has some time period to sign, but the team can rescind the offer making him a UFA if he's not signed to that point.

Sure, a team can do that. I just counted that under the team choosing not to offer a QO. The route is slightly more contentious, but it essentially is the same in result. My main point is that a player can't reach UFA without going through RFA, unless the team chooses so.

 

[LittleAlex]

Why look elsewhere?

We have had our own share of guys getting money they didn't deserve:

And the best of all:

Didn't Portland pay Steve Francis for a years worth of salary as part of the Z-Bo deal?

I seem to recall him being on the team.

And let's not forget Raef's last season with the team.
He didn't even bother trying to rehab.

Just sat on his ass at home making literally twice as much as Oden's QO would cost.
At least there is a good chance Oden will try and return to the lineup.

 

[barfo]

And let's not forget Raef's last season with the team.
He didn't even bother trying to rehab.

Just sat on his ass at home making literally twice as much as Oden's QO would cost.

You can't blame Raef for that, he was on his death bed. At least, there was a lot of talk that year about him expiring. I never actually saw the obituary tho.

barfo

 

[LittleAlex]

You can't blame Raef for that, he was on his death bed. At least, there was a lot of talk that year about him expiring. I never actually saw the obituary tho.

barfo

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