Mavs sign Redd to offer sheet; will Bucks step up?

From the October 4th Milwaukee Journal Sentinel :

"For one thing, the offer is not for $4 million per season, as previously reported. According to sources who have seen the offer, it is for $3 million per season for four years."

 

Wow, that would be a bid screw up by dallasbasketball.com. Here is another reference to the figure being 4 million a year.

The Mavs will land either Michael Redd or Wang Zhizhi, but have no interest in having both, Mavs GM Don Nelson tells DallasBasketball.com.
"We will not do both. ... There are two issues that come into play,'' Nellie says, explaning why Dallas doesn't just match the Clippers' offer for Wang.
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Those issues: 1) The China mess; 2) The overriding desire for Redd.
DallasBasketball.com has learned that in the Mavs' view, their previous offer to Wang was, in a sense, more attractive than the offer sheet given to Wang because Dallas' deal included more guaranteed money. Nevertheless, nothing in Dallas will happen for Wang until whatever is destined to happen for Redd in Milwaukee occurs.
“I think it’s a longshot,’’ Mavs GM/coach Don Nelson says of the three-year, $12-million offer given Redd. “But he’s a heckuva player, a nice player, and a very good guy who would fit in well.’’
Nellie seemed surprised Tuesday when told that DallasBasketball.com had let the Redd cat out of the bag. And the organization seems like it would be surprised to see the Bucks let Redd go free, despite their objections to paying more lux tax. (Dallas believes $4 million is a “fair price’’ for Redd, a source says.) We’re told the Bucks might be near $56 million, well over the cap, and that the personnel department in Milwaukee and the ownership in Milwaukee might not see eye-to-eye on this one.
The Nelsons and owner Mark Cuban met late Tuesday and determined to pass on the keep-‘em-both scenario. Donnie Nelson had pledged that Wang will either not be lost at all or will not be lost without compensation, but that was pre-Redd. Now, maybe we could argue that Wang won't be lost without compensation -- because Redd would, kinda, be that compensation. The Wang deal, by the way, is worth $2 million a year, in which case matching would seem to be an easy call. Except. …
The debate continues because of Wang’s tenuous situation with his native China. It is not unfair to look at Wang’s time in Dallas as a grand experiment that didn’t quite work, with the headaches not outweighing the benefits. Going into Tuesday’s braintrust session, ask five different Mavs execs that question and expect five different answers.
One more note about both these situations: Technically, teams cannot sign-and-trade a player who has signed an offer sheet. What can happen: The three parties agree to withdraw the offer sheet, and negotiate a trade from there. Problem is, one Mavs staffer says he can’t recall such a deal ever happening.
The best guesses? Wang gets matched, eventually, because Redd gets matched in Milwaukee. And Dallas reaps the benefit of both transactions because, as with the failed Rashard Lewis chase, the groundwork is being laid for the Mavs as a must-see stop for free agents.
The Mavs will let the Redd deal play itself out before rushing into the formalization of a Wang decision. The Bucks are flip-flopping on their thoughts regarding blowing past the lux tax, and are saying they will take their time to examine options in the Redd case.
In both situations, the original team has 15 days to match and retain. LA might view Wang as a solution to their loss next season of short-term center Michael Olowokandi. Dallas could find itself a bit overloaded at the 2-3 spot, but is there really a downside to trying to add a potential part-time starter who is a personality fit?