Interesting side note: Both Grievius Vasquez and Robin Lopez are both represented by Arn Tellem, Tyreke's agent. Here's a list of all his clients: http://hoopshype.com/agents/arn_tellem.htm
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I might be wrong, but it's only a "poison pill" contract offer from the Pelicans if Reke actually signs it. Then the Kings would have to decide to match or not. However if Reke doesn't sign it and the Kings offer a deal that is more typically structured and not front loaded. And is acceptable to both parties. Then there is no poison pill worry.
as I thought, the Pelicans are throwing a monkey wrench into our plan to keep Reke by frontloading the contract. Good thing is that he hasn't signed the offer sheet and he came away pretty happy from the meeting with Vivek an Co. That way, if he decides to come back to the Kings with the same money the others are offering him, but spread out evenly our however PDA needs it to spread out to contain the salary cap.
yes, this is the key point about New Orleans trying to **** us by frontloading -- none of it actually happens/matters unless Reke signs their deal. There would be no reason for Reke to sign their deal and **** us so long as he legitimately wants to return, and we say we're going to pay him. The only way the New Orleans gamesmanship matters is if we tell reke we aren't paying him, he wants to go to New Orleans, and he colludes with them to try to force his way out of Sac. Which is another way of saying going down to his place and showing him some love was critical.
That's what I thought when I looked into it. Maybe Brick can provide more insight. 
James Ham @James_Ham about 5 minutes ago
Confirming that Tyreke Evans will meet with Atlanta tomorrow and possibly one other Eastern Conference team.
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Also on the Evans front, hearing he may prefer a 4-year deal and not the 5-year deal he is eligible to recieve from the Kings.
Confirming that Tyreke Evans will meet with Atlanta tomorrow and possibly one other Eastern Conference team.
James Ham @James_Ham 3m
Also on the Evans front, hearing he may prefer a 4-year deal and not the 5-year deal he is eligible to recieve from the Kings.
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I don't understand the talk of frontloading. The Pelicans have less than $12M in cap space, max, so the "scary" 4/$48M contract can't come into play if they frontload and the following years are even less. Maybe frontloading gives us $1-2M less to sign another free agent, but the fact of the matter is that if we want another big free agent (like Iguodala) we will have to amnesty Salmons AND trade away MT23 for beans (or possibly in a S&T). And at that point, we've got that $1-2M of latitude. Folks are speculating that it's frontloaded, but I'm not sure that really will bother us all that much.
Well, "poison pill" is definitely the wrong phrase - that refers to a situation where a player gets a big extension and is then traded before the extension takes effect (i.e. at a much lower salary than the average value of the future contract). In that case, the salary cap hit for the trade for the receiving team is the average salary over the remainder of the contract. But this is clearly not a poison pill.
It also can't be a "Gilbert Arenas Provision" contract - which is what the Rockets did for Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik last year, that $5M/$5M/$14M structure - because that provision only applies towards players who have only 1 or 2 years in the league and thus their teams don't have full Bird Rights for matching like we do for Tyreke.
In fact, I'm not really clear what sort of shenanigans the Pelicans could possibly pull, outside of giving Tyreke the max offer available given their cap space.
It also can't be a "Gilbert Arenas Provision" contract - which is what the Rockets did for Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik last year, that $5M/$5M/$14M structure - because that provision only applies towards players who have only 1 or 2 years in the league and thus their teams don't have full Bird Rights for matching like we do for Tyreke.
In fact, I'm not really clear what sort of shenanigans the Pelicans could possibly pull, outside of giving Tyreke the max offer available given their cap space.
That's total worst case scenario for me. We NEED another ball handler if Reke is going to move to PG. I have season tickets and I don't want to go through another year of 15 team assists vs 13 TOs.
Two years ago I was giving away my tickets because I didn't have the heart to go to more than 1 game a week in most cases.
Two years ago I was giving away my tickets because I didn't have the heart to go to more than 1 game a week in most cases.
Well, "poison pill" is the wrong term, but, yes, the Pelicans cannot offer that sort of contract because Tyreke has more than two years in the league. As such, they can only offer the standard 4.5% raise. (link) In the end, the "big raise in year three" construction doesn't raise the total value of the contract - it's still limited by the offering team's cap space and maximum raises. The contract is just redistributed to allow a team with no Bird Rights on an RFA and only an MLE available to have the ability to match by restructuring the contract such that the MLE is sufficient.
That would be worse than the team is now, with less likelihood of growing into something special. Vasquez/Mac/Salmons/JT/Cuz is weak defensively, has no one that can penetrate and lacks scorers. Mac would have to develop at a ridiculous rate to even approach the same low level of success we currently have.
It just feels like the few anti-Reke at PG crowd are so eager to have him gone that they haven't paid attention to the rest of the league the last few years.
With regards to Vasquez, NO thinks he is such a good player that they've now (if Reke signs) brought in 2 guys in less than a week to replace him. Think about that before we decide we're fine if he replaces Evans in the starting lineup.
It just feels like the few anti-Reke at PG crowd are so eager to have him gone that they haven't paid attention to the rest of the league the last few years.
With regards to Vasquez, NO thinks he is such a good player that they've now (if Reke signs) brought in 2 guys in less than a week to replace him. Think about that before we decide we're fine if he replaces Evans in the starting lineup.
