(07-02-2023, 04:34 PM)omahen Wrote: I am sure it is very easy to prepare for a couple of scenarios, if offer sheet comes. Can they still negotiate a SnT, once the offer is made? Can the player be SnT into the MLE?
It doesn't work like that. You make an offer sheet, then the other team matches or doesn't. No other choices with making an RFA offer sheet.
If you try to negotiate a trade instead of just taking a shot, you are negotiating against yourself, because there is no scenario in which you can improve on the outcome. You have to tell them your number, to do the trade match, and see if you can give them suitable return. Then if they were going to match otherwise to keep the player, they decline the trade and keep the player, and you got nowhere. If they were NOT going to match before, now you end up compensating them when otherwise you wouldn't have had to. Better to just suck it up, take a shot, and see what happens.
There is one place where you try to work a SNT with a RFA and his old team, and that's when you don't have the CBA opening to offer the salary it will take with your cap space or exception, but you think he's worth it and you are willing to pay it. There's no choice in that context, and you have to hope the old team is willing to let him go at a reasonable price.