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Have the Nets extended a qualifying offer to Nenad Krstic?

If they haven't, has there been any news regarding whether they intend to submit a qualifying offer (or more) by the end of the month?

Free Agent period is 1st July isn't it ? No need to Rush anything man.

They'll look at offers talk with Krstic and his Agent . Don't expect any decision before July.

Serpo wrote:Free Agent period is 1st July isn't it ? No need to Rush anything man.

They'll look at offers talk with Krstic and his Agent . Don't expect any decision before July.

I'm not trying to "Rush" anything, man; I'm not even a Nets fan.

To keep him restricted, they must submit a qualifying offer by June 30th, as I alluded to in my initial post.

As a non-Nets fan who doesn't closely follow the team, I was merely interested in whether the Nets had submit an offer to him.

Further, if they hadn't, I was just wondering if you Nets fans who do follow the team closely have heard anything about which way the Nets intend to go regarding Krstic.

Well i think we'll look to resign him cheap at first so there will definitly be an offer . We're not just letting him walk for nothing even IF he has an offer we won't match . Rod's not letting somebody go without getting anything back . Hell he got Kiki into thinking he would match the ridicolous K-Mart offer that we weren't going to match in any cases .

Yeah I haven't even heard any team show any interest in Nenad either yet. Unless there is a team with cap space to burn, I am pretty sure he'll be a Net next year whether it's just the qualifying or if we sign him to a deal like Andre Blatche did last year (which at this point I think is a little cheap for Nenad even with his injury, but I'm wouldn't even offer him 5 mill a season at this point until he proves he can ball again).

We'll offer him a contract or tell him to take the qualifying. If he wants security, he'll take the long term deal. If he has confidence he can return to form, he'll take the qualifying and hope for the best.

From what I've read the Nets are going to let the market determine Krstic's value, in order to truly do this they'd (more or less) have to keep him a restricted free agent, so although Krstic has not been offered the qualifying offer I fully expect the Nets to extend the offer to him in the coming weeks...

The Nets invested a lot of time, effort, and patience with Krstic so it's hard for me to believe that they would risk losing him for nothing (especially when he put together a nice end of the season run).

Our management is cautious they will probably offer him a deal between 4 to 5 per year. If get more than that from somebody else we will not counter.

I don't think they will overpay, the guy looked bad out there

The Nets will offer Kristic the qualifying offer & let him shop himself around. Based on what offer he gets, they'll then decide to match or not. My guess is that most teams may still be worried about the injury & restricted free agency status, so he may not get any good offers. In that case, he'd likely play for a year on the qualifying offer & then test FA again next year as an unrestricted free agent.

mack69 wrote:Our management is cautious they will probably offer him a deal between 4 to 5 per year. If get more than that from somebody else we will not counter.

That's the sort of contract twin got and curly is far better than twin. Even with one good knee.

Alot of you guy's seem to think that curly is finished or he is half the player he used to be. Lucky the dude is not a horse or he would be dog food by now.
Truth is Curly came back to early. Hey that rhymes. He shut it back down. Got it right then came back. Sure he looked a little rusty, but Frank threw him in there. and we started to see him play some decent ball in the last two weeks to a month of the season.

Get off his back. I say we should sign him to decent deal. Cos this looks like a Carlos Boozer like scenario to me. I don't think THorn is that silly to let him go for nothing.

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Relax, and do not worry.

This is completely different from the Boozer fiasco, for one key reason: Krstic is a restricted free agent, whereas Carlos, a 2nd-round pick of the pre-Arenas rule days, was an RFA with no Bird rights. We can match ANY offer that is given for Nenad, but the market won't bear that much for him anyway.

Also, comparing him to Collins isn't really appropriate. For one, we were coming off of a Finals run, and we expected to need Collins for future frontcourt battles, as we were in full-on contending mode. Secondly, the entire climate for signings was horribly short-sighted in those days, and GMs are much more wary of signing a long-term deadweight contract. If you want to have a Nene-type contract on your hands, that's what you will get. Signing Curly is a calculated risk, and if he never regains his 16/7 form, we need to be able to work through that deal.

6 years, $28mil would be my first offer. If he held out until training camp, I would go 3 years, $17mil, with the last year as a team option. That way, if he proves he's worth big bucks in 2010, we can sign him to the contract he'll deserve. If he's not sure about those prospects (especially in a talent-laden free agent class), he should take the security of a longer deal now.

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dude if curly was a horse, he'd be bottled up somewhere sitting on a grade schooler's desk, waiting to be

a)applied to construction paper

and or

b)sniffed or eaten

Play hardball with your RFAs, always. NBA teams have plenty of leverage in these situations, and though it may cause hard feelings in the short term, a GM must act fiscally conservative at all times. (NO sweetheart deals)

You never know when that extra $2mil in salary cap room will come in handy. Maybe you could have had that free agent superstar for $11mil/mil a year, but you have to settle for a Ricky Davis type for $8.5mil. If you keep all the little contracts as tidy and small as is reasonable, you can afford to make big splashes to help your team later. But when you hogtie yourself with Ben Wallace, Larry Hughes, Kenyon Martin, Troy Murphy and Rashard Lewis type deals, you will never be able to effectively add premier players to your core.