A qualifying offer is a one year contract with a raise over the previous year. By tendering it to the player, he becomes restricted in free agency, which means the Pistons have the opportunity to match any offer sheets from other teams that his agent can drum up.

Without it, Amir could take any offer from any where, even if it was for less than the Pistons were willing to pay.

Right, but the Pistons could offer him say 1.8/2.8/3.8/4.8 (team option) as the qualifying offer?

As long as it 'qualifies' it wouldn't have to be a 1 year deal would it?

I guess per usual I was being unclear with my prose.


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NBA Salary Cap FAQ

No. A qualifying offer is a one year contract. If Amir takes it, he "earns" his freedom to be unrestricted and sign anywhere the next season.

Order of operations

-Pistons tender Amir a qualifying offer.

-He takes it, plays one year in Detroit and then becomes an unrestricted free agent, free to go anywhere he wants.

-He doesn't take it, negotiates a new deal with Detroit or someone else for more money/greater length. If Detroit wants to match the incoming offer, they may do so.

Wow, none of those options are worth a damn...

Roscoe,


I guess this one (from the same site) is what I was looking for.

Roscoe,

Thanks for putting this together.

Does this mean we're using our Mid-Level Exception to re-sign Amir? Leaving the reminder of that $5 million (or so) to spend on another free agent?

I don't believe so, I think he is a different kind of "Exception". An Early Bird methinks.


Would be best to use the MLE first on somebody else I guess so we wouldn't 'have' to use it on Amir.

A player who has one year without changing teams as a free agent qualifies for the Non-Bird Exception.

A player who has two years without changing teams as a free agent qualifies for the Early Bird Exception.

A player who has three years without changing teams as a free agent qualifies for the Bird Exception.

Amir is an Early Bird FA.

Early Bird means a raise of 120% over the last seasons' salary or the average player salary (same amount as the Mid-Level Exception), whichever is greater as the maximum of a first year deal.

So we do not need to use the MLE to match other offers in this case.

Alex Acker on the other hand only played one year in the NBA. He's a Non-Bird, and as such we would have to use our MLE to match other offers to him.

Joe will probably also tender a qualifying offer to Acker, just to keep his rights while he plays overseas. It costs us nothing to do so.

If Acker does not come to Detroit, we will have our MLE to spend in FA regardless of the outcome with Amir.

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Well done.

I've been laughing for about two minutes after reading this line:

Wow, thank you for the information about the free agents. Since I live in the Seattle area, we don't get much press on the Pistons over here anyway. I am relatively ignorant of what is going on with those newer players. Thanks again.