Free Agency Class (restricted and options)

[Flaming Homer]

One more free agent article for this season. Restricted free agents and a few players with team - or player option.
Someone can clearly see, I have my focus ahead
There should be plenty of options to upgrade a roster this off-season and I can't wait to hopefully get something done.

External link: http://www.keep-at-it.de/images/csl/rfa.html

[Andrewu91]

Love it

Good stuff man

[Ocons]

I absolutely love the formatting of these articles. Great stuff. Can't wait to get KP on an Exum style deal

Ish is going to be an interesting one. We shopped Bryce for awhile early on because I was ready to hand him the keys but Cotton has proven to be irreplaceable - so I'm not sure what we'll do with Ish. Moving Mudiay, though, allows us to focus our attention on retaining one less player.

[KW]

these articles are great. Nice job.

We should have some good cap room to work with. Interested to see how that plays out.

[hardenwithnod]

Man that was a good draft class.

[hardenwithnod]

BTW, you might want to correct the Whiteside column, as those numbers seems off haha.

[Flaming Homer]

If you get KP on this kind of Exum deal you are clearly cheating
How the hell did Exum end up with 10Mil anyway??

And thanks for the tipp, Whiteside indeed was "off" a little. Hope I didn't loose the column more often.

[Rizzo]

Love your articles! The layout and formatting is top notch!

As for the RFA's, just take my money now! Because if they take my money that means I'm either gaining a legit talent or a team is paying top dollar to keep them. The team options I definitely see both the Blazers and Lakers letting Hayward and Wood walk. Just doesn't make sense to keep either around. If Paul George declines his PO then all hell may break loose on the open market. I think the same would be true for Cousins but there's no way I see Inglis walking away from his money. He's nowhere near guaranteed to see that same pay day.

[Flaming Homer]

Pretty much on point how I see it too with the options and handing money out to RFA's!

And thanks guy's for the praise, really appreciated!

[Jestor]

Yep, also spending the cash on RFAs.

[bt]

Great article man and great RFA class. Should be a fun FA.

[OneNole]

Any article that has Boban behind Whiteside clearly needs to be discredited.

[Myles]

This RFA class is loaded, holy crap. 10 legit starters, and 5 more situational starters/rotation pieces. You don't usually see that.

I'm willing to bet good money that only Hayward and Wood hit the FA market. Wood may not, not sure what the Lakers cap space is like this offseason, but unless they are capped out either way, they'll let Wood walk.

If this was real life or the players had agents or whatever, I would strongly recommend that both PG and Cousins decline their options. PG so he can get one more full max (not sure if he would get the 5-year max next offseason, but he'll certainly get it this offseason), and Cousins so he can get a longer guaranteed contract. I doubt he gets another max contract, maybe he does, but he could certainly get a 12M per year deal for 3-4 years. Inglis will probably accept his PO. It's good money and he'll still be in his prime next offseason.

[wms02a]

Might as well bump this now that we are closer to the offseason... will designate cap space to go after one RFA but not sure who at this point. I want to go after one I have a shot putting away but also want to hold teams accountable