For Bartelstein and Parker, a $20 million guarantee after the past injuries and an uneven final season with Milwaukee is the best possible outcome to the choppy waters of restricted free agency. Now, Chicago needs to renounce Noah Vonleh, David Nwaba and waive Paul Zipser and Julyan Stone to create the $20M in salary cap space needed to sign Parker.
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David Nwaba
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Born: 01/14/93
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:210 lbs. / 95.3 kg.
Born: 01/14/93
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:210 lbs. / 95.3 kg.
Bobby Marks: Here are the remaining key free agents available: Marcus Smart (R), Shabazz Napier, Yogi Ferrell (R), Devin Harris, Shane Larkin, Jamal Crawford, David Nwaba, Dwyane Wade, Nick Young, Patrick McCaw (R), Rodney Hood (R), Michael Beasley, Jabari Parker… espn.com/espn/now?nowId…
David Aldridge: No surprise: several teams have reached out to @dnwaba0, whose qualifying offer was rescinded by Chicago Thursday, making him an unrestricted free agent. Spurs, Lakers among many, per source, with no frontrunner. Bulls still could re-sign him as well.
Kevin O’Connor: Intriguing move by the Bulls to rescind David Nwaba. I’ve heard their plan is to free space to absorb money (like Faried or Deng), then re-sign Nwaba using the Room MLE. They can create up to $20.6M. But I wonder if they could first try to sign a RFA (like Jabari Parker). @ringer
Update on the Bulls cap situation after the Sean Kilpatrick waiver: Chicago is still operating as a team over the cap based on the $8.6 (midlevel), $3.4 (bi-annual), $9.0 (trade), $2.6 (trade) and $1.3 (trade) million exception combined with the $10.5 million Noah Vonleh and $1.7 million David Nwaba free agent hold. The maximum cap space that Chicago can create is $20.4 million but would come at the cost of losing the above exceptions. The Bulls have a July 18 guaranteed date on the $1.5 million Paul Zipser contract and August 1 for the $1.6 million Julyan Stone cap hit. July 13 is also the last date to pull the qualifying offer for Nwaba without the consent of the player. The Bulls have 12 guaranteed contracts.
Here are the 13 restricted free agents left on the board with their one-year qualifying offer listed: Marcus Smart ($6M), Zach LaVine ($4.3M), David Nwaba ($1.7M), Rodney Hood ($3.4M), Yogi Ferrell ($2.9M), Patrick McCaw ($1.7M) Clint Capela ($4.7M), Montrezl Harrell ($1.8M), Jabari Parker ($4.3M), Jusuf Nurkic ($4.7M), Bryn Forbes ($1.7M), Kyle Anderson ($3.2M) and Davis Bertans ($1.7M).
