The Kings have officially tendered a qualifying offer to Terence Davis, making him a restricted free agent, reports ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (via Twitter).
As ESPN’s Bobby Marks notes (via Twitter), Davis’ QO is worth nearly $1.9MM. The Kings hold his Early Bird rights, giving the team the ability to offer him a starting salary worth up to about $10.4MM on a deal of at least two years.
While it’s unlikely Davis receives that max number, Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee reported earlier this month that the former undrafted free agent is seeking a contract worth upwards of $9MM per year.
Davis averaged 11.1 PPG and 3.7 RPG while shooting over 37% from three in his 27 games with the Kings, and showed some moments of good defensive ability. The Kings are in a tight financial spot, so it will be important for them to figure out how much they value Davis’ contributions as a bench guard should he receive the type of offer he’s looking for.
“It’s looking really good for me. I would say this is some of the best basketball I’ve played in my career, even in college,” Davis said at the end of the season, when asked about the chances of staying with the Kings long-term. “This is a stretch of some of the best games I’ve played in my entire life.”
So we are worried about the Salary Cap, when every single Playoff Team was over the Salary Cap by Multi-millions of Dollars. GS, LAL, Phili, Boston, etc were over the Salary Cap by as much as $25m+ or more. Either the NBA enforces the Salary Cap or it don’t. It’s NOT some teams it’s ok but everyone else its wrong. OBVIOUSLY, if you want to go to the Playoffs and Win, then screw the Salary Cap, -OR- we can just be a Perennial Lottery Pick Team.
You mad about something?
The NBA salary cap is not like any other sports’ salary cap. There’s two different caps, a soft cap and a hard cap (plus the luxury tax line). The hard cap works exactly like football and hockey’s where teams can’t spend over that. The soft cap isn’t a real cap and is more of a line where the restrictions on what type of contracts can be offered in free agency are increased and the cap amounts that can be acquired in free agency/trades is less flexible. The luxury tax line acts as a de-facto hard cap as it forces teams to really take a look at their team and think if they have a championship core (or a piece or two away) and if so, do they want to pay for it. GS, LAL, and Philly (amongst other teams) are all willing to pay that because they think they are or have proven to be a championship team.
If you’re a team like Sacramento, there is almost no reason for you to spend money on mediocre to average players. You shouldn’t be spending money just to spend money or because “the top teams spend this much so we should too”. Unfortunately, the NBA is very much a star driven league in the sense that you need at least one star player to make your team even competitive let alone a destination that guys want to go to. In Sacramento’s case, Fox looks like he can break into that star player tier but still needs to raise his game by a notch or two and Haliburton needs some more time to see what he develops into (and how he meshes with Fox going forward). There’s something to build around in Sacramento, but it’s not something that star/very good players are rushing to join up with nor is it something where the Kings are one or two pieces away.
Maybe Davis can turn into a really good player, but $9m feels like a lot for a guy who has only really proven himself to be a bench scorer so far. A multi-year deal at $9m AAV just feels like an overpay right now and seems like the type of deal a team will regret in a year or two as they bury Davis on their depth chart and/or bench.
90% of the NBA was over the salary cap last season, what’s your point?
And one of the three teams that wasn’t over the cap actually made the playoffs (NY).
I like him but I would feel better if the Kings could keep him for 5 or 6 mil a year.
Why? What’s the difference?
3 or 4 million dollars to give to someone else.
If they’re over the cap, it won’t make a difference. They can’t use that money anyways.
I always liked TD, was sad to see Toronto basically be forced to let him go.
Good for you TD. Hell of a baller. Best of luck!
He only has one R in his name.
TD was not runned out of Toronto for non-basketball reasons. He didn’t or couldn’t play the D side of the game that Nurse asked. His ceiling would be Jordan Clarkson and SAC would be stupid to let him go for nothing.
Terrence Davis is an underrated player
Is he a restricted FA? Sounds to me as if he may not make more than a minimum deal
He played well for less than half the year