« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2015, 09:26:11 AM »
Why would Lopez opt out, though?
Considering his frequent health issues, he might want to opt out to get the security of a multi-year deal.
That's exactly why he wouldn't opt out -- he's going to get another contract after this one, failing a career-ending injury, and as an offensively gifted center operating after a massive increase to the salary cap, he's not going to be left starving.
What he won't get is a fully guaranteed $16 million next year if he does leave the Nets.
I didn't say Lopez was necessarily going to leave the Nets. Just that he might opt out for a multi-year deal. If a team isn't going to give him $16 mil guaranteed next year, why would they do it the following year?
they wouldn't, which was his point. He takes the 16 million next year and just enters free agency the year after, where he will sign a 4 year deal in the same general neighborhood of a 4 year deal he would sign this summer, except that he wouldn't have 16 million.
Correct. It makes zero sense for Lopez to do anything but ride out his contract.
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