Why Phoenix Suns Have to Do Whatever It Takes to Keep Eric Bledsoe

July 5th, 2014 by Jared Dubin Leave a reply »



Restricted free agency is a tricky business. The overall concept is fairly intuitive—the "home" team has the right to match any offer sheet the restricted free agent signs—but the complicated mechanics and timing of it all makes determining who will actually be presented with an offer sheet to sign essentially a crapshoot. 

We saw this conundrum at work this past week with Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward. 

Utah RFA Gordon Hayward is meeting with Cavaliers officials in Cleveland today, sources tell Yahoo. Offer sheet could be forthcoming.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 2, 2014 Cleveland's belief that Utah will match any Hayward offer sheet is strongly discouraging Cavs from extending one, league sources tell Yahoo.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 3, 2014 Here's the rub—when a team signs a free agent to an offer sheet, the "home" team has three days to decide whether or not to match. But during that three-day period, the dollar amount of the offer sheet stays on the offering team's books, effectively clogging up i ...

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