speedythief

Unless Toronto offers Joel a contract that is only 5% or so bigger than one he is offered from an American franchise, he will still make more money. The tax situation is more of a confusing issue than a detrimental one in most cases.

Toronto will be interested but to which degree I'm not sure. They can offer more than the MLE, which is something only a few NBA teams can do this summer. There are few decent free agent bigs besides Joel (Nene (R), Mohammed, Harrington, etc.) so his best option might be a sign-and-trade, so he isn't letting the thin free agent market determine his value.

Also, I don't know how Milwaukee and Minnesota figured into the writers thoughts. Neither team has cap space and Milwaukee has three centres under contract.