(Via The Baseline)
Felton will simply sign the one-year, $5.5 million qualifying offer put forth by the Bobcats.
Bradbury [his agent] would not say just how far apart the two sides were on a deal, but it is believed that the team’s offer was in the range of the deal Marvin Williams got from the Hawks—a five-year deal worth $37.5 million, plus added money with incentives.
(Via Alan Hahn)
Nate Robinson will be signed to a one-year contract today and, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, Robinson, who was a restricted free agent who earlier this summer told the Knicks he had no interest in playing anywhere else, will get more than his $2.9M qualifying offer. There are also performance bonuses included in the deal.
Both of these players are personal favorites of mine, but the harsh reality is they fall under that category of "Likeable College Players Who Never Really Make The Leap." Both players have the potential to be game changers at any time, but yet somehow over time have failed to really step forward as a team leader for an entire season.
These one year deals seem like band aids for both organizations - you keep your player for another year and see how he pans out. Even if they do out-perform their value, they face the dreaded 2010 free agency pool where they fall far lower on teams' priority list than they do now.
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