DJMUSIC wrote:He must be getting guarantee minutes in Knicks semi-rotation
Why else ? would he sign to get chance for spot, certainly not to be a bench-warmer

perhaps you need to find out what qualifying offer means?

martin wrote:

DJMUSIC wrote:He must be getting guarantee minutes in Knicks semi-rotation
Why else ? would he sign to get chance for spot, certainly not to be a bench-warmer

perhaps you need to find out what qualifying offer means?

Your right
so based on below:

This Derrick Brown Knick transaction has nothing to do ? with current OR new NBA/CBA correct ?

<<NBA restricted free agent, a team must submit a qualifying offer to the player by June 30. This prevents the team from not offering a contract and waiting to swoop in when the player tries to sign elsewhere. The qualifying offer ensures that the team does not gain the right of first refusal without also offering a contract themselves. Accepting a qualifying offer makes the player play for one season with the team that made the qualifying offer, in which case the player becomes a free agent again at the end of that season.

The amount of the qualifying offers are, for players on rookie "scale" contracts, based on the player's draft position. For all other players, it is the greater of the following:
125% of the player's previous salary
The player's minimum salary plus $175,000

The qualifying offer must be for one season. A player can elect to accept his qualifying offer (the qualifying offer must be accepted by March 1) and play the following season under its terms. This is sometimes done in order to become an unrestricted free agent the following summer.

If the deadline passes and the qualifying offer is neither withdrawn nor accepted, then the player continues to be a restricted free agent. The team and player are also still free to negotiate a new contract after the qualifying offer ends - the deadline only affects the player's ability to accept the qualifying offer.
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