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Originally Posted by Gravitykillr
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Big difference is in the NBA, the original team gets no compensation, picks or otherwise. If you don't match, you lose the guy for nothing.
Any team can offer an RFA an offer sheet and the original team has the right to match. However, under the new CBA, there's something called a 'poison pill' provision, where a team can extend an offer sheet in which the third year can spike significantly. (In the case of Landry Fields, the first two years are around 5 million, the third year is about 9 million). The crazy thing about this is that the team making the offer sheet can average out the cost over the entire length of the contract (Toronto can average out Fields to 6.3), but for the original team, they can't average them out for cap purposes. Lin, for example, received an offer sheet of 15 million. If the Knicks matched the offer sheets for Fields and Lin, they'd pay 24 million for those two guys in the third year of their contracts.
This is the first option where the poison pill provision has been available, but it really seems like it's going to be heavily used to pry young RFAs away from top-heavy teams.