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Here ya go... https://www.nba.com/news/2021-free-agency-options-and-qualifying-offers While I have no doubt that the rumor that we're intending to bring Knight back is fairly well-grounded, the point remains, we decided not to offer a QO to him, and now he's a free bird. It can't help that we drafted Jalen Johnson, and that we surely intend to fill OO's minutes with some new MLE signing. I don't know where Knight fits if not as a two-way.

My guesses: Portis wants $15 per ...will get $10-ish/3 yrs. PJ Tucker 2ys/$20 mil ...will get $7-ish/1 yr TJ McConnell - MLE ...will get $11-ish/3 yrs JimmyB getting extended Luka $202 mil DeRozan wants more than the MLE ...will get $15-ish/2 yrs Dinwiddie 2ys/$40 fron OKC (weird bu Ok, theyd prolly try and flip him for more 1st - HOARDER) ...will get $12-ish/3 yrs Nets trading Jordan Lonzo to Bulls for Thad Young and Satoransky.

Nah. We don't have any interest in Euroleague guys. Or so I've been told.

Yes. If. If. If he can shoot enough. Otherwise, they'll just sag back and let him clunk one off the rim. (Does he have a runner? I can't say I saw one in all the highlight reels, but maybe I just missed it.) This is key. He's slow in the launch. He's got a form that seems to the naked eye to beg for Chris Jent's full attention. Most of his points seem to be layups. That's not going to happen in the big show. Eleven other teams valued another PG above him. That's a lot. I'm rooting for him as much as anyone, but it does no one any good to set up expectations as-if everyone else is a fool. He's about as boom or bust as they come. Some players do improve their shot markedly once they get in the league. He has to be one of those.

Not even mine. Honestly, I hate what my Nats did at the deadline, but I love it. We're 6.5 games out, with a puncher's chance at doing the unthinkable. I get why the Barves didn't do what the Nats did... being just 4 games out, and not having the heavy artillery rentals to send out in trades. But I have to say, in the big picture, I prefer where we're at over where you guys are at, at least for as long as you have owners who don't have an itch for a championship.

Me, I don't see him being interested in 3rd string, which is what he'd eventually likely be, though certainly he'd spend the first half of the season probably playing a chunk of time in the PF role beside JC's center minutes. He's old, but he's still productive compared to many of the alternatives. Can't say I hate the idea if he were open to it, and the money works. Just seems highly unlikely for it to work out to both sides satisfaction. Building on the thought... in a more perfect world, we could have a back-end to our depth chart of..... PG Lou Will SG Kent Bazemore SF Joe Johnson (... don't laugh... https://www.cbssports.com/big3/news/big3-basketball-week-3-results-standings-joe-johnson-hits-another-game-winner-to-push-triplets-to-3-0-start/ ) PF Paul Millsap C Al Horford

If that happens, toss out all the imagery of goodwill in ATL... that would make a statement to the contrary.

Later, maybe. Not this soon. He's not been tried there, and it would seem doubtful that they'll try to put any new expectations on him beyond what's been expected given that he'll be, at best, coming back at almost the All-Star break. That's more of a training camp experimentation thing, in my opinion. But that said, it explicitly was said when he was drafted by the General that that's the hope long-term.

I've been a Dieng advocate, but in truth, he almost never played PF in either MEM or SAS last season. Not to say he couldn't, because clearly he can stretch the floor at least as much as Dedmon did for us in the past. But the only serious, viable vet free agent option that logged time at both PF and C last year is Theis. And he's at least a candidate to get more than MLE money, so that might rule him out. So, maybe it's just that the ideal isn't a plausible aspiration this time. In that case, can't not welcome JaVale.

We're not a taxpayer. At least, not yet. We can lay out as much as $9.5m for someone after we go over the cap with JC's signing.

I believe that, too. But just from a practicality and efficiency stand point, once OO is back, it would be optimal to have someone you feel good about seeing the floor in both roles... not unlike it's good to have a 5th backcourt guy who is a viable option at either PG or SG, imo. (Yes, like, say, a LouWill.)

But he's now an unrestricted free agent.... or do you have intel to the contrary? So, it's an open question whether he would be back with us or with another team, and with Jalen Johnson being our pick, you'd have to suspect that if he gets others' interest, he's going to be smart to consider that.

While you can get much less athletic bigs than McGee, I was sorta hoping for someone who can be plausibly an asset at both 5 and 4. If this bears out, this will be something of a "meh" off-season from my vantage point.... would rather have a stronger offensive asset than Wright, but okay... would rather have used the #20 differently, but okay... and this, the same, would rather have someone who, even after OO gets back, can get minutes as a PF. But. Okay.

...with PG court vision. That's the part that excites me. But we'll see. Like our #48 pick, so much of his career is about to be defined by his ability to develop a reliable shot.

More fodder to chew on... If we kept the #20, it was always going to be the case that whoever we picked was going to be spending significant (and probably more) time in the Gateway Center at College Park. The minutes in State Farm just aren't going to be there to develop someone.

But not if it's a 1 year deal, right? Am I missing something?

To no one in particular... I would add to what has just been said, and at least as significantly, is that the G-League as a development petri dish has come miles ahead of what it was 20 years ago when Ginobili began SAS' European pipeline. And/but, while all of the above may be true, what is also true is math. And math in the context of the CBA says that there is value to being able to hold rights to and develop players before the otherwise-obligatory contract clock starts. To the degree that you actually use that mechanism for supplementing your talent intake over the years, while you're not going to hit on every player, over time, you're going to end up benefiting over the others who don't. It's analogous in my mind to saying that a person who has decided to avail him/herself of investments abroad stands a better chance of overall investment success over time than someone whose portfolio's scope is limited to domestic stocks and bonds. Granted, you have to be discerning and judicious regardless. But as your next 3-4 years draft slot fate becomes more certain to fall in the lower third of the draft, there's more room for erring on the side of 18, 19, 20, and 21 year-old maybes... guys who are in those developmental years and who it's not irrational to believe can become solid pieces for the future... I think of a Vrenz Bleijenbergh this time, and if he'd stayed in the draft, certainly a Roko Prkacin. Mind you, I don't come at this as-if some self-exhalted exceptional judge of talent. I'm just coming at it from a mere ordinary judge of talent, but also recognizing some of the practicalities of the talent market given the guardrails that everyone has to abide by.

It's not a deal until it's a deal, of course. But you wonder if all three teams have engaged on expanding the deal, what could possibly be in it for us that isn't already in it.

Fwiw, my intel comes from Keith Smith's podcast today, in which he explained that technically the league year ends at midnight tonight. EDIT: And taking a look at the Miami Herald piece, it does indicate that midnight is the deadline for QOs. For some reason, though, team options appear to have a somewhat earlier deadline (5 pm). y

Knight becomes an unrestricted free agent in about 45 minutes.

Right. But that just means that that's the minimum deal that the team is required to give him... from how I read it... here's that whole section... To my point, there's nothing inherent in making the QO that says the team is definitely going to do one or the other. But to the point of this, they are committing to, at least, another two-way.

Wood was not regarded as a C until this season, when he was practically forced to be.

Not sure Brad has that right. Extending a QO, if I understand correctly, doesn't define whether or not you're going to be offered another two-way or a standard... it's just what has to happen for the team to have the right to match any other team's attempt to take the player away. Of course, the question now is... when do we hear about Nate? Or will we? Remember, the Hawks worked out a whole lotta guys that were unlikely to be drafted.