I don't see why you open that high? I offer him 4/$40M and to get it done before he hits RFA I'd go to 4/$45M, but after that I let him test the market. However, I also tell him that if he doesn't sign an offer sheet from another team the most he is getting after testing RFA is 4/$36M. I think people are expecting him to get much bigger offers than he will get. Even with the cap about to jump teams have limited finances right now. I don't see any team out there offering more than 4/$50M.
There are a lot of teams that just won't spend their cap money on a 2nd tier FA right now like the Lakers and Knicks because they want to get big 3 type of guys and then fill in with vet minimum players. The 76ers and Magic have a ton of money, but they aren't interested in Kanter. He doesn't fit with the Spurs. Of the teams that could offer Kanter $12M/yr+ who actually would? Looking at the teams that could offer Kanter $12M/yr+ I'm not seeing many that should consider it. The only team I can see even looking at Kanter are the Bucks, because they are just dumb enough to tie up their money moving forward without getting good enough to get out of the lottery. Outside of that he just isn't worth throwing $12M to for anyone other than OKC. All teams under the cap can find a better use of the money given their needs and situations. If the Thunder were $12M under the cap they could probably do better with it than Kanter. They are not under the cap and can only re-sign Kanter or lose him so they have to give him some money. You really don't want him taking the QO, although even that wouldn't be terrible with the cap jump next year they would probably have some money to play with even with KD getting his new max.