Kevin Durant Signs With The Golden State Warriors

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houston911 said:
@Loose or anyone else who knows

will the warriors have durants bird rights if they sign him to a 2 year deal with the 2nd year as a player option, or would he have to take a 3 year deal with a player option?

i can't see why he would lock into a long term deal and sacrifice 8 mil per year
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If Durant signs with anyone else this summer, that team won't get his Bird Rights, a mechanism that allows teams to go over the cap to retain players. According to NBA rules, players need to play at least three seasons with a team before the team can go over the cap to retain them for a full max deal. If a team other than the Thunder signs KD this summer, they still have something called a Non-Bird Right Exception they can use to retain players they've only had for one season, but it's not quite as appealing:

This exception allows a team to re-sign its own free agent to a salary starting at up to 120% of his salary in the previous season (not over the maximum salary, of course), 120% of the minimum salary, or the amount needed to tender a qualifying offer, whichever is greater. Raises are limited to 4.5% of the salary in the first year of the contract, and contracts are limited to four seasons when this exception is used.

It might not seem like much when we're talking percentages, but the totals add up over time. If Durant signed a one-and-one and then signed a five-year max next summer, he'd make over $235 million over the next six years. If he signed a one-and-one and then signed a four-year max using those Non-Bird Rights, he'd make a little over $168 million over the next five years. That's a $67 million difference, assuming the NBA's cap projections hold to form and don't shoot up more between now and 2017.
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That figure is misleading since the number of years are different. Hed be looking at a difference of 6 mil per year.

From a financial perspective hw could absolutely make that back playing on the warriors since theyd probably be the best team on paper of all time

It would look real beta though
 
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The rising cap is really sending the NBA to a weird place...

3 of the top 4 teams...SA GS AND OKC...are the only ones with a real shot of landing or keeping a top 5 player...

The worst teams in the league get the top picks and first crack at the best young players...

Everybody else is fighting over who...Conley...coming off two injured filled seasons...and Whiteside...and honestly who DOESN"T expect this dude to get paid and stop giving a fukk? He barely gives a fukk now...I keep expecting the many face god to reveal him as Andrew Bynum this whole time...

GS wins 73 and have a loaded team...Spurs win 67 and are a piece away from a loaded team...OKC beat one and was up 3 - 1 on the other...

Next years free agency class is probably going to be the deepest ever...if GS and SA hold pat and don't do much this year, with them already having star players on the team...they going to be :wow: next year in free agency...
 
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