Landry Fields agrees to offer sheet with Raptors

[indeedproceed]

Just going up online and via SportsCenter: Raptors and Knicks' RFA Landry Fields have agreed to three-year offer sheet

Precise value of offer TBD but Knicks will have three days to match once Fields signs July 11. Deal likely to have Year 3 spike a la Asik

Sources say that the three-year deal offer sheet to Fields, with the Year 3 jump a la Omer Asik, approaches $20 million

Updated current as of 1:30 PM EST

[wdleehi]

Knicks match?

[indeedproceed]

Knicks match?

Not with the yr 3 spike. They likely couldn't, unless they amnestied/traded Amar'e.

[Lucky17]

Very interesting.

Knicks had reportedly made a pitch to Nash, saying they could potentially offer Phoenix a package of players, including a resigned Fields, that would give Nash a contract with a starting salary of around $8 mil, instead of the mini-MLE. So, the offer sheet by the Raps could put those plans into a real bind.

[Yoki_IsTheName]

I like this move by my boy Landry (served him pastries at work in his Stanford days). He can play his natural SF position here and bring some defensive mentality in that deal.

Love it.

Of course that is inthe Knicks won't match.

Only problem, they'll have two slashers and no shooters on that wing.

[indeedproceed]

Very interesting.

Knicks had reportedly made a pitch to Nash, saying they could potentially offer Phoenix a package of players, including a resigned Fields, that would give Nash a contract with a starting salary of around $8 mil, instead of the mini-MLE. So, the offer sheet by the Raps could put those plans into a real bind.

It would end all talks of the deal.

And I say good. Please, dear lord, let Nash put any kind of animosity behind him and go back to Dallas for one last fun-n-gun.

[Who]

Dumb signing -- so they have DeRozan, their best young perimeter player, at the two guard spot + then they spend the #8 pick on another two guard in Terrence Ross + now they grossly overpay Landry Fields to have a third SG? What the hell?

Bryan Colangelo has had an awful tenure in Toronto.

[celtsfan84]

This is a genius move.

It almost eliminates the Knicks as competition for Steve Nash.  Now the Knicks can't sign-and-trade Fields to Phoenix, whether they match or not.  You can't match an offer sheet and then sign-and-trade a player.

This makes the most New York can offer Steve Nash a measly (by NBA standards) $3 million as compared to $12 million from Toronto.

Fields would be a nice fit alongside Nash.  And Toronto might not even want Fields.  They might be doing this to block the Knicks.  They can always trade Fields later.

The offer is reportedly 3 years for 20 million, which isn't too bad.

[Kane3387]

Dumb signing -- so they have DeRozan, their best young perimeter player, at the two guard spot + then they spend the #8 pick on another two guard in Terrence Ross + now they grossly overpay Landry Fields to have a third SG? What the hell?

Bryan Colangelo has had an awful tenure in Toronto.

As others have stated this is about Nash. It foils the Knicks chance at a Sign and Trade with Phoenix and eliminates them from likely landing Nash.

[Kane3387]

Knicks match?

Not with the yr 3 spike. They likely couldn't, unless they amnestied/traded Amar'e.

Billups was amnestied. Have to be a trade.

[CelticSooner]

This is a genius move.

It almost eliminates the Knicks as competition for Steve Nash.  Now the Knicks can't sign-and-trade Fields to Phoenix, whether they match or not.  You can't match an offer sheet and then sign-and-trade a player.

This makes the most New York can offer Steve Nash a measly (by NBA standards) $3 million as compared to $12 million from Toronto.

Fields would be a nice fit alongside Nash.  And Toronto might not even want Fields.  They might be doing this to block the Knicks.  They can always trade Fields later.

The offer is reportedly 3 years for 20 million, which isn't too bad.

Yep. Overpaying a scrub like Fields to get the bigger fish.

[Kane3387]

So if the reported deal for Nash is true (3 yrs 36 mill) then you are paying 3 years at 56 million for a 38 year old pg and Landry Fields?...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes people think they're so much smarter then everyone else to the point it makes them stupid.

Fields is a shooting guard who can't shoot at all. With Derozan, Kleiza, Ross, and Forbes there now the Raptors have to make room for him.

[indeedproceed]

Knicks match?

Not with the yr 3 spike. They likely couldn't, unless they amnestied/traded Amar'e.

Billups was amnestied. Have to be a trade.

Ah right, I had completely forgotten.

[StartOrien]

This is a genius move.

It almost eliminates the Knicks as competition for Steve Nash.  Now the Knicks can't sign-and-trade Fields to Phoenix, whether they match or not.  You can't match an offer sheet and then sign-and-trade a player.

This makes the most New York can offer Steve Nash a measly (by NBA standards) $3 million as compared to $12 million from Toronto.

Fields would be a nice fit alongside Nash.  And Toronto might not even want Fields.  They might be doing this to block the Knicks.  They can always trade Fields later.

The offer is reportedly 3 years for 20 million, which isn't too bad.

Yep. Overpaying a scrub like Fields to get the bigger fish.

I guess I'd be concerned about giving Fields all that money on a hunch. Nash seems like a different type of person than your average NBA player. I'm not sure that bottom line dollar means as much to him as it does for other players.

Not saying a massive figure won't be a big part of the equation, just not all of it. And if you're wrong, you're stuck w/ Landry fields at a little below a 7 mil a year average.

[StartOrien]

Knicks match?

Not with the yr 3 spike. They likely couldn't, unless they amnestied/traded Amar'e.

Billups was amnestied. Have to be a trade.

Ah right, I had completely forgotten.

In case anyone else had forgotten, they amnestied Billups a couple months after they extended him. Effectively the NBA equivalent of the scene in 'The Dark Knight' when the Joker burns his half of the money.