10-05-2022, 02:46 PM
(10-05-2022, 08:02 AM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: Miles Bridges Becomes Restricted Free Agent After Allowing $7.9 Million Qualifying Expire (msn.com)
This is a weird choice by Bridges, frankly. It feels like really bad agenting, although his legal troubles might make all of this moot.
Up to Oct 1, he could have signed QO that commits him for only one year, and then get paid this year while resolving his legal issues (if that's doable). Then next summer he would be a UFA.
With this choice, he has no contract offer this year unless some other team wants to make one, which would likely be at a very reduced rate, will tie him up for a minimum of two years (at that low rate), and which can be matched by CHA if they wish. More likely, he gets no offer, CHA doesn't make one either, he sits the year, then is RFA again on July 1.