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[mvossman]

I thought we were in the same position with him as Sac was with Holmes last offseason where we can’t pay him over a certain amount? I guess I misread somewhere.

As others pointed out, we did not make that mistake (if we signed to a standard 2 year 2nd round rookie deal, we would have that issue).  The mistake we made was making his 4th season non guaranteed.  That meant that we could not make him restricted last year.  Imagine if we could have signed him as a restricted free agent last offseason.  Probably could have gotten him for something like Maxi's contract (unless the Nicks make a really big offer).  Instead, we are going to compete with rest of NBA and talking numbers like 15+.  The good news is there are not a lot of teams with cap space and a need for a starting point guard.  Unless he continues supernova path we may not have to go too much over the MLE (unless he just not want to stay).