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Free Agents Receiving Maximum Years

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Under the league's new Collective Bargaining Agreement, free agents can be offered up to five years by a team holding their Bird Rights, or four years by any other team. … Novak, on the other hand, was ineligible for a fifth year because the Knicks only held his Early Bird Rights, so the four years he received were his max.

Timberwolves Eyeing Lee, Stiemsma

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Since they don't hold any form of Stiemsma's Bird Rights, the Celtics could only offer the big man their bi-annual exception, worth less than $2MM, while it sounds like Minnesota's offer will approach $3MM.

Nets Re-Sign Kris Humphries

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As such, it makes sense that they'd agree to bring back Humphries, whose Bird Rights they still held.

Celtics Likely To Withdraw Offer To Stiemsma

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Boston, which has only had Stiemsma under contract for a year, has non-Bird rights on Stiemsma, allowing for a 120% raise or the amount of his qualifying offer, whichever is greater -- and in Stiemsma's case, the qualifying offer is greater.

Free Agent Rumors: Landry, Thomas, Mason

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With a number of available players still on the market though, here's a round-up of a few of the day's assorted free agent rumors: The Hornets have renounced Carl Landry's Bird Rights, making a sign-and-trade difficult to work out, writes Eric Pincus of HoopsWorld.

Bobcats Still Pursuing Carl Landry

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In order to finalize other roster moves, the Hornets reportedly renounced Landry's Bird Rights, meaning the "sign" half of a sign-and-trade would be challenging.

Grizzlies Expected To Re-Sign Hamed Haddadi

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Because the Grizzlies hold Haddadi's Bird Rights, the club doesn't necessarily have to sign him to a minimum-salary deal, though he's unlikely to get much more than that.

Grizzlies Sign Hamed Haddadi

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The Grizzlies hold Haddadi's Bird rights, but the team is over the tax threshold, so it's unlikely the 27-year-old gets a signficant raise.

Clippers Acquire Willie Green

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Since Green was coming off a minimum-salary deal and only had Non-Bird Rights, he couldn't have received much of a raise. … The Clippers have acquired Willie Green from the Hawks in exchange for the draft rights to Sofoklis Schortsanitis, the team announced today in a press release.

Josh Howard Rumors: Monday

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It's also worth noting that, since they have his Non-Bird rights, the Jazz can offer Howard a first-year salary up to $2.58MM without using a mid-level exception.

Timberwolves Sign Greg Stiemsma

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Since the Celtics, who are over the cap, only have non-Bird rights on Stiemsma and can't exceed the value of the biannual exception to keep him, they'll be unable to match the Wolves' offer.

Contract Scenarios For Howard, Paul, Bynum

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They could become free agents and re-sign with the team that holds their Bird Rights, for up to five years with 7.5% annual raises. … This is why the team that holds the player's Bird Rights at season's end will be considered the odds-on favorite to re-sign him, a scenario we saw play out earlier this summer, when Deron Williams re-upped with the Nets for five years and $98MM+.

More Reactions To The 4-Way Howard Blockbuster

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Acquiring Bynum and his Bird Rights makes the Sixers the overwhelming favorites to retain him long-term, as I suggested earlier this week.

Sixers Confident They Can Keep Bynum

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With Bynum comes his Bird Rights, so the Sixers will have the ability to offer him one more year than…

Free Agent Spending By Division: Atlantic

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Novak and the elder Smith were retained with some form of Bird Rights, while Felton and Camby were acquired via sign-and-trades, allowing the team to use its mini mid-level exception on Kidd.

Rockets Sign Carlos Delfino

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The Bucks held his Bird rights, so they would have had no trouble bringing him back if they had interest.

Possible Fits For Leandro Barbosa

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Indiana Pacers ($2.575MM room exception available)The Pacers had to renounce Barbosa to make their other roster moves this offseason, so they don't retain any form of his Bird rights.

Wolves Rumors: Tolliver, Blatche, Okur, Andersen

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Even though Tolliver has been with the Wolves the past two seasons, the team renounced his Early Bird rights earlier in the summer to clear room for Nicolas Batum's offer sheet.

Matt Barnes In Talks With Multiple Teams

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"There's a couple other teams, so hopefully we'll get this arrest situation out of the way, so I can go ahead and move forward with my career." The Lakers hold Barnes' Early Bird rights, so even though they're well over the tax apron, they could give him a deal worth as much as $5.276MM next season. … It's unlikely he'd get nearly that much, though, and since an Early Bird contract must be for at least two years, the Lakers might be reluctant to give him any more than the minimum, which would require only a one-year commitment.

Teams Using Cap Space In 2012/13

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Indiana Pacers: Most of the Pacers' big deals this summer involved re-signing players with Bird Rights (Roy Hibbert, George Hill) or acquiring players via sign-and-trade (Ian Mahinmi).

J.R. Smith On Contract, Lin, Carmelo

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When Smith re-upped with the Knicks in July, Luke Adams of Hoops Rumors speculated that he might opt out again next summer, which his deal allows him to do, and take advantage of the Early Bird rights he will have earned with the Knicks to get yet another raise.

Celtics Notes: Dooling, Pierce, Garnett, Cap

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That news is surprising, since it was believe the Celtics signed players using either Bird rights, the mid-level exception, or the minimum-salary exception.

Kyler On Harden, Jennings, Holiday, Rockets

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The fifth year that the team holding Smith's Bird Rights will be able to offer could be a dealbreaker, according to Kyler, who adds that the forward appears happy with the Hawks for now.

Offseason In Review: Portland Trail Blazers

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Hickson and Ronnie Price also received one-year guarantees, and while neither player appears to be a part of the team's long-term plans, the Blazers will hold Hickson's Bird Rights next summer, and could bring him back if he has a solid year. … Trades and Claims Acquired Sasha Pavlovic, two 2013 second-round picks, and cash from Celtics in exchange for the rights to Jon Diebler (sent to Rockets).

Offseason In Review: Denver Nuggets

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Signed via Bird rights. … Signed via Bird rights.