nate33 wrote:Ruzious wrote:dangermouse wrote:I feel like McGee and Ibaka are roughly on the same level, McGee's O is a lot better and he has the higher cieling.
Someone will pay Ibaka, maybe not quite as much as McGee will get, but McGee will actually be worth it.
Not with McGee shooting 40% from the line. Ibaka is the better player, and he'll most likely get paid more. The entire Association realizes that Javale has... problems, and everyone's going to be have trepidations about signing him to a long-term deal. My guess is that Javale signs a 1 year deal with the Wiz - much like Nick's.
I don't think a QO if a very likely outcome. The difference with McGee relative to Young is that somebody is going to offer McGee a substantial contract. It may not be the $10-12M a year he is presumably seeking, but it's going to be at least $8M a year if not more. That means he'll be taking at least a $5M pay cut next year by accepting the QO. So he's got to walk away from $5M and then he'd have to pursue free agency the following year when the tighter luxtax standards kick in.
When Nick took the QO, he was presumably looking at maybe a $5M a year contract. The QO was only a $2M paycut this year. He is only gambling $2M that he can do better than $5M a year next summer. And next summer, there's still likely to be plenty of free agency dollars floating around.
I see what you mean, but I think he'll end up taking the opportunity to become a UFA the next year - thinking he's worth a lot more than everyone else does - just like Nick.
