One of the numerous rumors going around this week is that the Thunder are going to make an offer to Utah's restricted free agent Paul Millsap. He is a good young player that filled lifted his game when Okur and Boozer were out. I like the things he can do for OKC. Or any team for that matter. What I hope we don't do is pay to much for him. Since Millsap is a restricted free agent, Utah can match any offer to keep him. They are likely to do that since it appears thata they will be about 3 million over the cap. They can trade Boozer and keep Millsap at a cheaper price. This is very likely because Boozer has another year left on his contract and isn't guaranteed to stay in Utah. So, they may trade Boozer for some future stock. Teams can start talking with players today and get verbal commitments. However, contracts don't become official until July 8th. The team spends this week determining the new salary cap. Last year it was 57 million dollars. A team may go over the cap to resign it's own players, or by offersing the mid-level one year contract of around 5 million dollars. If it goes over the cap, it must pay a tax to the league. This next couple of week's should be exciting.
Keywords: boozer, free agents, jazz, oklahoma city, thunder, utah
