Could the Rockets lose Troy Daniels via the Gilbert Arenas Provision in 2015?

Does this season count as his first season? If yes, then he was signed for 3 years so wouldn't that not apply to him

 

He has a long way to go. It is too early to discuss his contract.

 

Rockets need to replace Bev with Daniels in the starting line-up.

Team will light it up.

 

Fixed it for you.

 

I see that the Rockets are getting a specialist 3 point shooter for a one-year 816K deal next year. That's a huge score either way you look at it.


-The way I understand the rule after next Summer going into the 2015/16 season, the Rockets will have a qualifying offer of 1.147 mil which will probably be making him a restricted free agent.

Per Luke Adams who is siting Larry Coon- (FYI, I'm sure you know all this Crash)

The Arenas provision limits the first-year salary that teams can offer restricted free agents who have only been in the league for one or two years. The starting salary for an offer sheet can't exceed the amount of the non-taxpayer mid-level exception, which allows the player's original team to use its MLE to match it. Otherwise, a team without the necessary cap space or exceptions would be powerless to keep its player, like the Warriors were with Arenas.

A rival offer sheet can still have an average annual salary that exceeds the non-taxpayer MLE, however. The annual raises are limited to 4.5% between years one and two, and 4.1% between years three and four, but a significant raise can be included between the second and third years of the offer. A team's cap space dictates the average annual salary limit for the entire contract, since the average salary still has to fit under the cap.


-So yes it does look like Daniels would fall under the Gilbert Arenas rule since he will have been in the league for 2 years at that point. Unless online sites are wrong about his contract, the 3rd year looks to be a qualifying offer which will make him a restricted free agent that Summer similar to Lin's contract with the Knicks before he went to restricted free agency.

The only thing to be concerned about now though is whether or not a team will offer the full non-tax payer mid-level amount to Daniels. Right now, it wouldn't seem likely unless Daniels explodes next year. If a rival GM with the cap-space loves what Daniels does next year, and gives him a poison pill contract much like the Lin/Asik contract.... So be it.

Either way you look at it, the Rockets are probably getting a bargain next year. After that, we'll just have to wait and see.

 

Correct me if I am wrong but I thought you could only offer a max of 2 years using the vet minimum or room exception. And to my knowledge that's all we had left after using all of our cap space signing Howard and Canaan.

No more money left for Troy. And if that's true then the OP is correct. Perhaps the Rockets and Daniels could agree to terminate the contract and start all over but if you do that it would be on good faith that Daniels would sign with you. Morey doesn't trust that process (See Parsons) which means we have Daniels next year and if he explodes so will his contract demands.