I am surprised that Beal declined his $5.6M player option. Sounds like he expects more than that in his new contract (certainly not a min contract). I don't see how BOS signs him. BOS could offer the full bi-Annual exemption I believe ($5.5M). That would put us over the tax but still under the first arpon hard cap. But would he even take that? Why decline $5.6M to take $5.5M.
Sign and trade is an option I suppose, we could offer Hauser, but how much do you want to pay Beal for probably less than 50 games, based on his recent history.
Yeah, that was a little surprising. If he thought he was going to get that his agent did not do his job well. But he is still getting paid by Phoenix, so half of what he gets above the minimum goes to Phoenix instead. Accordingly, with the Clippers likely taking a step back this year he might have just wanted to find a competitor to join, since the difference between the minimum and what he would have earned from his player option was less than $1 million, after accounting for the Phoenix offset.
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