Does signing Landry cut into MLE

Yuppp it will

 

I think we have the LLE as well....but my guess is that Landry gets signed very late, because I believe the Rockets can use the full MLE on a player and still match any offers for Landry going forward.

But if they sign him early it counts against the MLE....

DD

 

I've wondered about that also. Since we have the right to match any offer - can we use the entire MLE on another player and then match whatever Landry receives? I would think so..

 

I believe (and hope) that's how it works.

 

The problem is that we only have so much time to match an offer, so other teams may attempt to force our hand by offering him something KNOWING we will match it, and have to eat up some of our MLE...

For instance if another team is competing with us for a player and they also have the MLE, they could force us to match on Landry and make us cut back our offer.

DD

 

I'm not disputing you because I have no clue but this doesn't seem to make any sense (to me). Can you perhaps edify the clueless?

 

I'm confused about how they could force that. If we both want, say...Mickael Pietrus, but we haven't signed Landry yet...what could the other team do to make us sign Landry first?

Now if they wanted Landry, I see how they could force our hand...

 

Umm, sign Landry to an offer sheet? We match and they sign Pietrus. Of course, we may sign Pietrus and then match their offer leaving them empty-handed. I doubt that is how it works however. Seems too easy.

 

Plenty of bigger names out there...

I doubt anyone will even offer Landry a contract. I'm confident we'll get him for cheap.

 

I think that would get them into Luxury tax territory which I doubt the Rockets are going to be willing to get into.

 

Yeah, I don't think it works like that. Teams competing for FA's would be making up ridiculous offer sheets left and right for the other team's RFA's.

At least, I hope it doesn't work like that.

 

Les Alexander said he would exceed the luxury tax for "the right player", whatever that means.

 

Either way, it brings us into Luxury Tax land if we go beyond the MLE (approx. $6 M per). I would assume we split the MLE up, like in years past, to sign Landry ($2 M per) and an athletic wing say, Pietrus ($4 M per)...

BJax, Francis, Woods, etc. will not be Rockets past February 09. Hopefully that is when we can make our "big splash."

How Landry is a restricted FA after only 1 year is beyond me, bad contract.

 

elton brand. haha

when does the bidding start? before regular FA starts im sure, and u got 7 days to match. hmmm

 

2nd rounder contract i believe. its not his agent's fault. just the nature of the pick. thats why everyone wants to be a first rounder. its not about "ooo im #30 over #31", its about guaranteed money + years.

 

I suppose, but after what we paid to buy it off Seattle, seems like we REALLY liked this guy. Now this offseason will be spent concentrated on him, oh well... Not a bad problem to have I guess...

 

I believe the LLE for two years (2nd as player option) is a fair offer. That would get him to be Bird Eligible (3 years).

We could keep our MLE to use on a single player or split up for two bench-fillers.

I'd advocate dealing a package of guys to Memphis for Miller (Jackson, Head, Novak, for example).

Evan

 

sounds like that is the most likely to happen, unless of course somebody offers him a bigger contract.