Danny says he can't talk about Tacko because he's trying to get a contract done, but we think a contract has already been signed...
How sure are we that Fall is actually signed to a contract with the Exhibit-10 clause? I know it's been "reported", but have the C's officially acknowledged it?
Yeah, I caught that from Ainge last week as well. My guess is that the reports of the Exhibit 10 were incorrect, as they emerged before summer league. Perhaps he was just signed to the summer league team.
I suspect that he's discussing possible conversion to a partially guaranteed 2-year minimum contract, with the amount of guaranteed being the negotiating point.
Danny's usually been very good about not holding on to guys through the summer if they are legitimate candidates for an NBA roster unless he has real interest in actually keeping them on his roster. If he's not interested in them, he tends to let them go early so they can find another team. When he does keep a guy around like that he usually puts at least some partial guaranteed money in the contract so that if the kid doesn't make it onto the final roster, the player is not totally burned. For example, the Javonte' Green contract apparently has some portion of guaranteed money.
Right now, the reported deal that Tacko is on is a completely non-guaranteed 1-year deal with an E-10 clause which conveys a $50K bonus only if he is waived and subsequently spends 60 days on Maine club. That's not much in the way of security for the kid and certainly not much incentive for Fall to stick with the Red Claws should he be waived. That bonus plus a regular G-League contract would pay him only about $85K.
I expect they will be switching him to a more conventional 1+1 with the first year at least partially guaranteed for some decent chunk of cash. Just speculating, of course.