Question about FA

[Chef]

Gordon agrees to a max deal with Phoenix

NO matches

is he obligated to stay in NO for the three years? can he go to phoenix anyway? could he not finalize either deal, wait until next year and sign with phoenix as an UFA?

[SWedd523]

New Orleans extended a qualifying offer, making him a restricted free agent. That gives the Hornets the "right" to match any offer within three days.

Gordon signed a tender with Phoenix, so if New Orleans wanted him, they had to match the offer if they wanted to keep him. Had they not matched, he would be a sun in three days

[Chef]

New Orleans extended a qualifying offer, making him a restricted free agent. That gives the Hornets the "right" to match any offer within three days.

Gordon signed a tender with Phoenix, so if New Orleans wanted him, they had to match the offer if they wanted to keep him. Had they not matched, he would be a sun in three days

if he doesn't want to be a hornet could he negate the deal to become ufa? or did he really screw up by accepting the phoenix offer? if he really wanted out of NO and they are saying they are matching anything, wouldn't he be best to not do anything

[spectre]

Nope...he's a Hornet.

[SWedd523]

There really isn't much he can do. All rookies have four year contracts with the first two being guaranteed and the second two being team options. That gives the team the power to decide if they want to keep the player or not.

The only thing he can really do if he doesn't want to be a Hornet is play out the year on the QO and not sign a tender with any team so he can hit unrestricted free agency next year. But of course, doing that only pays something like 5 mil instead of the max he's getting now. So it's really a case of (in his situation at least) do you want to leave bad enough to give up a max deal or is money more important?

of course he could always demand a trade...