Will Nate Rob Be a Celtic Post-2010?

[PosImpos]

What do you think?

We won't have his Bird Rights, so we'd have to use some of the MLE to resign him.  It would probably be a choice between him or Marquis.

If he makes an impact in the remainder of this season, will we try to resign him (and will we have a shot)?  Or is it a foregone conclusion that Nate will go get more money somewhere else?

[Fafnir]

No he won't.

Our team needs at the SG/SF position and our desperate need of a better rebounding big man will trump backup PG and bench scorer. We'll allocate our money towards those areas instead.

[BudweiserCeltic]

False, we can sign him with our non-bird rights. If anything, that's what will be offered to him. I kinda doubt anyone will offer him more than that.

[BballTim]

  Shouldn't we see him play a few games and then decide?

[jdpapa3]

Yes, I think a lot depends on how he plays in this stretch, although if he plays well he will probably play himself right out of our price range. And if he plays poorly, we won't want him back, so Fafnir is probably right.

[Fafnir]

  Shouldn't we see him play a few games and then decide?

Probably, I just don't think Danny will commit that much money to a backup PG.

Who knows if he plays amazingly well we might decide to keep him around, stranger things have happened.

[PosImpos]

Nate Rob could be a legitimate 6th man.  He's like a supercharged (and young) Eddie House. 

Spending the MLE (or at least a significant portion of it) on him wouldn't be the worst we could do.

I agree we need to see how he plays with the team first, however.

[Who]

False, we can sign him with our non-bird rights. If anything, that's what will be offered to him. I kinda doubt anyone will offer him more than that.

Are you sure the Celtics can offer Nate that type of contract?

Has any previous player who is on their qualifying offer been traded and signed to such a deal?

[GranTur]

We don't need the MLE to resign Nate.

I think Nate is going to spark this team to a 24-6 finish to the regular season and we're going to dominate the playoffs.

NON-BIRD EXCEPTION -- This is also a component of the Veteran Free Agent exception. Players who qualify for this exception are called "Non-Qualifying Veteran Free Agents" in the CBA. They are veteran free agents who are neither Qualifying Veteran Free Agents nor Early Qualifying Veteran Free Agents, either because they haven't met the criteria, or because they are Early Bird free agents following the second season of their rookie scale contract and whose team renounced the Early-Bird exception. This exception allows a team to re-sign its own free agent to a salary starting at 120% of the player's salary in the previous season, 120% of the minimum salary, or the amount needed to tender a qualifying offer (if the player is a restricted free agent -- see question number 36), whichever is greater. Raises are limited to 8% of the salary in the first year of the contract, and contracts are limited to five seasons when this exception is used.

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