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Originally Posted by bgarrett
So Cuban could ask him to sign for MLE for a year or two until someone (Kidd perhaps) drops off because then they could split that up and pay Maggette more? Kidd won't be paid near as much when/if resigned, at least not by us.
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It would have to be at least three years, because he wouldn't get his Bird rights until then.
To BG's question, I don't know what the exact cap figure is, but assuming it's around 55 mil, the only teams that, according to HoopsHype, could offer more than the 6mil a year that the MLE offers is:
Seattle
Charlotte
Memphis
Philly
Golden State
Philly is supposedly hot after Josh Smith, and Golden State has several big restricted free agents so I don't know how much money they'll have left after those, but they have made a big offer to Arenas, so I would assume they have the space to go after Maggette.
So it's not a gurantee that he will have to settle for the MLE, but it's a whole lot more likely now.