Nick Young And The Qualifying Offer: Why It Means He's Probably Gone Next Season

I accept the evidence detailed above, but the Wizards are a business, and as a business it is in their interests to cut costs as much as possible.

The ideal result for the Wizards business is for Nick to take the qualifying offer and not ask for more. Nicks restricted, so the Wiz can match other offers as they please. Therefore it makes no sense for them to offer more if its not needed, until someone puts in a bid. By picking up his qualifying offer, the Wiz have shown their interest, and put the ball in Nicks court to open negotiations by naming his price.

I agree its not the most enthusiastic or tempting offer ever, but as long as Nick understands the business reasons behind it there’s no reason for him to see it as lack of interest.

The Wiz could make him a higher offer, and they probably have already, but this risks pushing up the bidding war for him unnecessarily. For a team whose trying to preserve cap space, this doesn’t make sense.

If they don’t wanna really offer NY longterm security I don’t want him on this years team messing up things trying to play for a contract with Crawford breathing down his neck taking his pt.

Only way I keep him is if I intend to move him in trade but otherwise its gonna be an uncomfortable situation.

The problem is, next summer, there is almost nothing available at SG, except for a couple RFAs. So if you lose Young, you have Crawford and whomever you draft. Unless we’re lucky to be drafting very high, that could be a problem. Paying young 6 or 7 mil a year for 4 years, if he’s willing to take it, is probably more beneficial to us than being forced into possibly paying him 9+ next season.

8 mil or less per year for a SG in his mid 20s that can show up on defense, and score 16+ points a game for you mostly from the outside, is also a tradable asset. So you’re not screwing yourself over by signing him.

As I said in re PG Phenomenon’s previous post on this subject, we should regard the QO as a placeholder at this point. Why bid against ourselves?

If Nick gets another offer, as was the case with the Clips and DeAndre Jordan, the likelihood is that EG will match it (the money will be nowhere close to what Jordan got, of course… and you cannot really compare Nick to Stuckey, who is a combo guard while Nick is a pure 2). Even if Nick does not get an offer, my guess is that EG also knows the boundaries of QO hell that you carefully delimited above, Mike, and for that reason will make Nick an offer that saves face all around.

We all need to remember a few things about Nick (apart from the elements of his game that we have been picking at like a Roman auger examining chicken entrails). My read of Nick is that behind the goofiness there is a lot of pride, self-respect and patience. Nick was the last man in the Green Room (like Rashard before him, maybe we are specializing in guys like this), and he waited three years to get a crack at starter’s minutes. He has given the Wizards their money’s worth to date, his game is still developing (within its limits), and I do not foresee us hanging him out to dry in QO country.

Maybe I am prejudiced because I saw Nick shoot the lights out against LA at Staples Center last year, but this guy is no Vlad Radmanovic.

That’s funny! Well that just goes to show that dc fans never miss anyone till they’re gone! Nick is an elite scoring gaurd, showed consistency and some maturity last year. Yes, he has a ways to go but his ceiling is way higher than stuckey’s LOL!

This is a classic example of a player getting a spoonful of salt when expecting sugar.

NY wanted to see what his value was, the market has showed him the brutal reality, and now Nick is in a real tough place to decide his financial future, despite coming off of a career year.

He now will have to choose between signing the QO in DC and seeing if next summer is more fruitful, yet at the same time knowing that the team will be developing Crawford into their SG of the future or he can sign a multi year deal in DC, perhaps 4 years at $20 mil, and seeing where these Wizards can go with him in the mix.

$20 mil is a lot more guaranteed then $3.7 is. Nick’s watched what’s happened to Gil. He knows that opportunities to get paid in this league are limited.

I think the Wizards will make a multi-year offer to Nick, but it is in their best interest to wait as long as possible. Obviously the offers for Nick are not pouring in yet, so he must be getting antsy about that. As the season gets closer, the offers are going to get lower. So if Nick does get an offer sheet, they can match and if not, they can offer Nick a decent but not extravagant 4 year deal. If I remember correctly, they did this same thing with Deshawn Stevenson.

and sean too for that matter

still premature… but early signs are promising!

I’d guess Nick’s agent is seeking 7M-8M, since Marcus Thornton a 2G with similar #’s just signed for 8 mil per (40mil/5yr) with Sacramento.

Where else is going to offer NY a big contract?

I am happy to have Nick for one more year playing with Wall and Crawford to see how they fit together. And right now, management cannot decide how much to offer him – thhey have learned NOT to overpay.