Offer sheets to RFA's

[sunsfn]

A couple of you (Dylan & George) have talked about the Suns and Richardson agreeing to drop his offer sheet if one/both of them change their minds, and possibly giving the other team a player/players/pick, to do this.

There has to be something written in the NBA rules that once a verbal offer is made during this time it has to be honored, and/or, there can be no compensation to other teams to make changes. (on RFA's)

This 14-15 days is an extremely important time to the players and the teams and the NBA. I can not believe they would take changing verbal agreements lightly if a problem came up.

The deal with Boozer is different in that he is a free agent, not a RFA.

Where is CAP when you need him.

 

[devilalum]

A couple of you (Dylan & George) have talked about the Suns and Richardson agreeing to drop his offer sheet if one/both of them change their minds, and possibly giving the other team a player/players/pick, to do this.

There has to be something written in the NBA rules that once a verbal offer is made during this time it has to be honored, and/or, there can be no compensation to other teams to make changes. (on RFA's)

This 14-15 days is an extremely important time to the players and the teams and the NBA. I can not believe they would take changing verbal agreements lightly if a problem came up.

The deal with Boozer is different in that he is a free agent, not a RFA.

Where is CAP when you need him.

A teams word is important. If the Suns were able to bail on Q and did so the long term damage they would do to the organization would be big. The reason they were able to walk in and get a commitment from Nash so early is that the Suns have a rep for being a top notch organization.

 

[sunsfn]

Here is the part about signing rfa's.
http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#34

This explains that the suns actually had Richardson sign an offer sheet.
It is not effective unless the Clips do not match.
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When another team wants to sign a restricted free agent, it signs the player to an offer sheet, the principal terms of which the original team is given 15 days to match. The offer sheet must be for at least three seasons. The principal terms of the offer sheet cannot include non-cash forms of compensation. For example, it doesn't work to offer Denver's free agent a house on the beach within 15 minutes of the arena, knowing that it's impossible for Denver to match those terms. If the player's original team exercises its right of first refusal by matching the principal terms of the offer sheet, the player is then under contract to his original team and is no longer a free agent. If the player's original team does not exercise its right of first refusal within 15 days, the offer sheet becomes an official contract with the new team, and the player is no longer a free agent.

There can be no compensation given to a team in return for their not matching an offer to a restricted free agent. For example, Houston could not sign Golden State's restricted free agent, then send Golden State a draft pick in exchange for their not matching the offer and retaining the player.

Teams can rescind their qualifying offer to a restricted free agent, in which case the player becomes unrestricted. This happened with Toronto and Keon Clark in 2002.

A signed offer sheet can be rescinded within the 15 day waiting period if all three parties (the player and the two teams) agree. However, they could not do this in order to engineer a better deal (such as a sign-and-trade arrangement) between the teams.
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I did not know this. But can not imagine this would happen.
Once you sign a player you usually want him.
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[George O'Brien]

The only relevant thing this does not cover is exactly what the status is prior to the 14th. If the contract is binding when the offer sheet is signed earlier, then why do they keep insisting that no one can be SIGNED prior to the 14th.

In any case, I am assuming the Suns will just wait it out and then start over on July 29th.