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Keith Bogans To Get $5MM In 2013/14

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The early thinking on Bogans' contract is that he is allowed to receive up to the average league salary as a player with bird rights, which comes out to roughly $5.2MM (link).

Week In Review: 6/24/13 – 6/30/13

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The Jazz bought the rights to French big man Rudy Gobert from the Nuggets. … Larry Bird is staying on as president in Indiana.

2013 NBA Free Agency Primer

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Among them: Bird Rights, Early Bird Rights, Mid-Level Exception, Cap Holds, Sign-And-Trades, and Traded Player Exception.

Clippers, Matt Barnes Discussing New Deal

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That could make a new deal with Los Angeles tricky, since the club only holds his Non-Bird rights, which doesn't allow for a significant bump in salary.

Latest On Josh Smith

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The Hawks have Smith's Bird rights, allowing them to offer a five-year deal for a total of about $25MM more than he could sign for elsewhere.

Pacers Extend QO To Tyler Hansbrough

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The Pacers enter the offseason with about $49MM in guaranteed salary, though they'll have Hansbrough's full Bird Rights if they wish to go over the cap to re-sign him.

The Poison Pill Misconception

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Because the player's current team only holds his Non-Bird or Early Bird rights, the club would typically be unable to match a big offer sheet. … Since the Knicks don't hold Copeland's Early Bird rights and don't have the full MLE available, the team won't be able to match an offer that starts at more than $3.18MM (the taxpayer MLE), making the need for a so-called third-year "poison pill" unnecessary.

Latest On Matt Barnes, Clippers

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only has Barnes' non-Bird rights, but still has the full mid-level exception available as well. … A non-Bird offer from the Clips for Barnes would limit his starting salary to about $1.48MM, whereas an offer using the MLE could start at any salary up to $5.15MM.

Carl Landry, Clippers In Serious Talks

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I would guess L.A.'s preferred outcome would be to sign Landry using the MLE and Barnes using his non-Bird rights, but if Barnes pushes for a higher salary, the team may be forced to choose between the two players.

Knicks Likely To Re-Sign Prigioni, Not Copeland

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Holding only non-Bird rights on a pair of restricted free agents this summer, the Knicks aren't expected to be able to re-sign both Chris Copeland and Pablo Prigioni unless both players are willing to accept discounts.

Bird Rights For Millsap, Jack To Be Renounced

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According to TNT's David Aldridge (via Twitter), the Jazz will need to renounce their Bird rights to Paul Millsap in order to clear the necessary cap room to absorb all the incoming salary. … To create space for Iguodala's salary, Golden State will renounce its Bird rights to Jack, as Marcus Thompson of the Bay Area News Group tweets.

Mavs Move On To Plan B, Pursuing Jarrett Jack

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In order to sign Andre Iguodala, the Warriors will need to renounce their Bird rights on Jack, so the market for the veteran point guard is wide open.

Free Agent Rumors: Kirilenko, Andersen, Collison

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Here's more on the latest from around the league: The Wolves and Andrei Kirilenko didn't speak about the notion of a return today, but the team hasn't given up and retains his Non-Bird Rights, as Darren Wolfson of 1500 ESPN Twin Cities reports via Twitter.

Russian Team Wooing Timofey Mozgov

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Mozgov is a restricted free agent and the Nuggets have his full Bird rights, so the Nuggets can match any offer he receives from another NBA team, but that privilege does not cover offers from outside the league.

Eastern Notes: Bulls, Garcia, Cavs, Knicks

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Francisco Garcia's agent, Aaron Goodwin, tells Marc Berman of the New York Post (Twitter link) that his client turned down an offer from the Knicks in part due to avoid losing his Bird rights.

Spurs Likely To Re-Sign Neal; Bucks Interested

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With Neal's Bird rights in hand, the Spurs will have the opportunity and the means to match any offer sheet he signs with another team.

Renounced Players: Wednesday

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As teams clear cap space to finalize signings and trades, it may mean renouncing Early Bird or Bird rights to their own free agents, in order to remove cap holds from the books. … Some of those decisions are more notable than others, but for completion's sake, we'll track the latest of these cap-clearing moves right here: Mo Williams is the most prominent name among the several whose rights the Jazz renounced today, according to the RealGM transaction log.

Spurs Sign Marco Belinelli To Two-Year Deal

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The Spurs hold the free agent guard's Bird rights, so they have the flexibility to bring him back if they so choose, but Belinelli may be in line to receive many of the minutes that otherwise would have gone to Neal.

Cavs Sign Jarrett Jack

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It looked like the Warriors were poised to renounce Jack's Bird rights yesterday, but assuming the Nuggets agreed to a sign-and-trade for Andre Iguodala, they wouldn't necessarily have had to do so, as Luke Adams of Hoops Rumors points out.

The Timberwolves And The Salary Cap

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Since the team holds Bird rights for both players, no mid-level-type exception is required to accommodate their new salaries, as they could be offered any amount up to the max.

Knicks Rumors: Martin, Robinson, Jordan, Tyler

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Since Martin played on the Knicks last season, the team can ink him using Non-Bird rights, but that would still provide a salary of no more than about $1.6MM.

Knicks Re-Sign J.R. Smith

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Because the Knicks held the 27-year-old's Early Bird rights, they're permitted to offer him a contract that starts at 104.5% of the NBA's average salary, which is expected to be in the neighborhood of $5-5.5MM. … JULY 10TH: According to cap expert Larry Coon (via Twitter), the Early Bird amount for the coming season is $5,565,000.

Contract Details: Andersen, Young, Roberson

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Previous reports indicated he'd receive 120%, the most the Heat could give him via Non-Bird rights.

The Subtle Value Of Three-Year Contracts

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The simple answer for why players of such widely varying resumes wind up with three-year deals is that three seasons is the amount of time a player must spend with his team for the club to gain his full Bird Rights. … New York only had Non-Bird rights on Copeland, which allowed the team to give him 120% of the maximum salary.

Kyler On Jennings, Henderson, Blair, Mozgov

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It sounds as if plenty of clubs would be willing to do one-year, low-money deals, but Blair is still seeking a multiyear pact, or a sign-and-trade that would allow him to keep his Bird rights.