The Magic have tendered a qualifying offer to power forward Aaron Gordon, officially putting him on track for restricted free agency, per RealGM’s NBA transactions log.
Players eligible for restricted free agency don’t become RFAs by default. A team must extend a qualifying offer to the player in order to make him restricted. That offer essentially functions as a one-year contract offer that the player can accept at any time. If the player signs his qualifying offer rather than inking an offer sheet with another team or a longer-term deal with his own club, he’d put himself in line for unrestricted free agency in a year.
In Gordon’s case, his qualifying offer is worth $7,260,330. However, he’s considered one of the top restricted free agents on the market and will likely attract a sizable offer sheet if Orlando doesn’t negotiate a new deal with him directly, so I wouldn’t expect him to sign his QO.
Gordon, 22, posted new career highs in PPG (17.6), RPG (7.9), APG (2.3), and 3PG (2.0) in 2017/18, with a shooting line of .434/.336/.698 in 58 games.
Come to PHX!!!!
Good choice in the sense that Gordon is like the Booker of forwards.
Good move by Orlando, better to have him sign the qualifying offer to see how much better he will perform and than you decide if he’s worth giving a long-term deal to. Question is will he be willing to play for just 7 million.
Nope, way too low at his age and trajectory he could get at least double that.
Orlando had to extend the offer, he have to reject it so then they can sit down to discuss & get to an agreement, Orlando cannot offer him more, than 7MM for the qualifying offer, so is good, he will say no so then he can be paid. Though I don’t think he is worth a max, for sure he isn’t half as good as Booker, Gordon is a good player & who knows what will he become, Booker is a star with the potential to be a superstar. So Booker must get the max for sure.
Well Gordon needs another team to step up or he will play for the $7. There really is no choice. I think the I think the Magic will match any reasonable offer from other team.
how about a sign and trade to boston for rozier ??