I'm looking for a little help from the capoligists on the fourm. After looking at the centers freeagent list. One that interests me is Fesenko. When I visit all the websites that show the salaries of players, they all show Fesenko being an unrestricted freeagent. After some investigating I think he falls under the Gilbert Arenas rule. He's been in the league for two years and both with Utah. So I'm then assuming that Utah has the right to make him a qualifing and therefore make him a restricted freeagent.
If I'm wrong somewhere up to now, please tell me. Now is where it gets complicated. As I understand it. Any other team that wants to make Fesenko an offer is restricted to keeping that first year offer at no more than the league average, or basicly, the same as the mid-level exception, with the second year in the offer at an 8% increase. However, if they want to offer, lets say a three year contract, then they could increase the offer considerably in the third year, as long as the average of the three year total doesn't exceed whatever they have available under the cap. For instance, if a team offers 5 mil the first year, and then the salary jumps up to 5.4 mil the second year and then they jump the third year up to 10.6 mil, the three average would be 7mil a year and that team would have to have 7 mil in cap space.
Got that so far? My question is: Since the rule is in place to help the orginal team not lose a valuable 2 year player, and the orginal team is also limited by cap space, then I'm assuming that by offering a big jump in the third year of an offer is one way of prying the player away. It also my understanding that if the orginal team doesn't have the 5 mil in cap space, it can then use its mid-level excemption to make the matching offer. Unless of course its already used its mid-level excemption.
So I guess the question is, how much is Fesenko worth? And how much would Utah be willing to spend since they're already capped out and seem intent on resigning players like Korver, Mathews, and Boozer.
