Now that Landry is gone Scola is definitely taking advantage of the increase in playing time. He will definitely get a nice pay raise but I wonder how much people are willing to pay with the upcoming CBA, that will put a limit on some teams. 7-9 mil is a minimum I would think. Then again, with the NBA you just never know who will overpay.
Mid-Level Exception A team is allowed to sign one player to a contract equal to the average NBA salary, even if the team is over the salary cap already, or if the signing would put them over the cap. This is known as the Mid-level exception (MLE). The MLE may be used on an individual free agent or split among multiple free agents, and is available to any team that exceeds the salary cap at the beginning of the offseason. The Mid-Level Exception for the 2008-09 NBA season was $5.585 million. The MLE is $5.854 million for the 2009-10 NBA regular season. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Salary_Cap
Should be over 8mils, that's price both Socla and Rocket can accept. However, since Landry is gone, i can't help to think Socla's value is going higher. Whatever hapens, Scola is gonna to be one of huge steals of histroy. I mean this guy almost never got hurt.
8 millions sounds more feasible to me and his age really is a big factor that affects his next contract value. Whatever happens, there's one thing I hate to see is his tenure with the Rockets fizzles out at last.
MLE to 8 Million seems fair to me, 8-10 million is a little expensive for a player about to turn 30 years old.