A team that can afford to get an elite 6th man of the bench who can score at will and is unguardable on offense.
JJ Barea earned his contract with the T'Wolves by being a sparkplug and offensive dynamo who was instrumental in beating the Lakers on the way to the Finals and eventually a championship. His deal never tops $5 million a year.
Jamal Crawford is the reigning sixth man of the year. He made $5,225,000 this year will make $5,450,000 next year and $5,675,000 in the last year of his deal.
The greatest 6th man of this generation, Manu Ginobili who has surprisingly only won ONE 6th man of the year award despite being the third best player on three championship teams, a two time All-Star and a two time All NBA third teamer, made $7,000,000 this year and will make the same next year.
So in short, I don't see any team signing IT for more than $7,000,000 to be a sixth man. The obvious counter example is the Pelicans signing Tyreke to and $11 million/year deal to be a sixth man but I have to think they believed they could move Eric Gordon. And even if that isn't the case, Evans offers far more flexibility than Thomas as a guy that can play both guard positions and even slide to SF if asked.
Point being, I don't see any possibility that a team signs Thomas for more than $7,000,000 to be a sixth man. If he gets an offer of $8 million per or more it would be because a team sees him as their long term starting PG. And I'm not saying that won't happen but I'll be curious to see which teams (if any) view IT that way. Because I think if he gets quality starter money thrown at him then I'd think he's definitely gone.
On the other hand, if teams just throw out elite sixth man type money (say around the MLE or just north of it) then I think there's a good chance the Kings match the offer. If they keep their pick (or trade down) and end up with someone like Exum (which would require either a trade up or a Paul Pierce like draft night tumble) or Smart or even Ennis or Peyton then likely IT would start until the rookie was ready to take the reins and the Kings would have around $9 -$10 million tied up in the PG position which isn't bad at all if you've got a young stud and a high quality change of pace/sixth man pairing. Best of all, IT's contract would come up around the time the rookie PG was due for an extension.
I wouldn't be at all upset if things played out that way, assuming PDA drafted the right player at the PG spot.