Washu1000 said:"A restricted free agent can sign with any team, but his old team has the right of first refusal up to 125% of his previous season's salary or the amount it has available under the cap. If a restricted free agent gets an offer from another team, his original team has 15 days to match it or lose the player without compensation."
Darius made $1.6mil last year, so almost $2mil since we have no cap space and no MLE.
nbrans said:Actually, I think because we have Early Bird rights we can offer him up to the average salary, which is essentially the MLE.
nbrans said:Actually, I think because we have Early Bird rights we can offer him up to the average salary, which is essentially the MLE.
thedofd said:The Kings have made Darius a qualifying offer, so don't they have the right to match any offer he receives?
Did we spend the entire MLE on Shareef? If yes, then how can we offer him MLE? It's confusing (one of my blind spots).Warhawk said:Again, only up to about the MLE - over that and (because we're over the cap) he goes *poof*.
sono said:Did we spend the entire MLE on Shareef? If yes, then how can we offer him MLE? It's confusing (one of my blind spots).
Bricklayer said:Its really hard to see Darius coming back here unless we clear up the logjam at PF to get him some minutes. If he came back now he would literally be the 5th big man. I'm sure he'd like to be a more important piece than that for somebody.
C'mon GP, lol. (Hollinger also ranks the Kings behind SA, Pho, Dallas and maybe Houston and about even with Denver.)Robby (Sacto, CA): To follow up your answer about the Kings: What bruising Center/Power Forwards are left of available? And that would play for the Kings (ie Stro Swift)
John Hollinger: They would have to pick somebody up in a trade at this point. It's probably more likely to happen in February than now, unless Petrie can swindle somebody in a sign-and-trade for Songaila.
Kings113 said:There are still a handful of teams who WANT Darius.
thanks Warhawk,Warhawk said:We cannot offer him the MLE (yes, it all went to SAR) - what we can do is match any offer for him up to about $5 million (the average salary in the league). The amount is/is about the same as the MLE (average salary is close to the mid-level exception).
Whether or not we have the MLE available doesn't matter in this case.
http://www.nba.com/news/cba_summary_050804.html
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Folsom Al said:I haven't heard who is interested in Darius .... do you know which teams they are ???
Bricklayer said:Its really hard to see Darius coming back here unless we clear up the logjam at PF to get him some minutes. If he came back now he would literally be the 5th big man. I'm sure he'd like to be a more important piece than that for somebody.
NoBonus said:Sure is nice to have too much at PF than too little..
PFFFT!! said:There is an article on ESPN about Denver eyeing Darius. Its on the insider. Anyone care to post it here?
Kings113 said:From reading around the news sites this off-season, Washington/Seattle/New Jersey/Philly/Denver. All have said they have interest or high interest more than once.
thedofd said:Here 'tis
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/features/rumors
WHO INTERESTED THE SKINNY
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Forward thinking
Aug 19 - With Shareef Abdur-Rahim in Sactown, there may not be room in the frontcourt for Kings restricted free agent Darius Songaila. Agent Mark Bartelstein said the Nuggets have shown interest in the power forward, the Rocky Mountain News reports.
It's not so nice to have too many "tweeners" at the PF.NoBonus said:Sure is nice to have too much at PF than too little..
And1 said:http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/4498484
We came across a minor rumor yesterday that the Nuggets are interested in Darius Songaila. He's a restricted free agent, but we can't understand why there isn't more interest in him. Darius can be signed on the cheap and all he wants to do is play D and pull boards. Plus, he can stick the elbow jumper if need be. Seems like a solid addition for a lot of teams. …