The better question is probably, why did they extend the QO in the first place? I don’t think Fazekas should have ever been viewed as a ‘lock’ to make the team. And it certainly didn’t appear that there were lots of suitors lined up to offer him truckloads of money. He played in the D-League all summer; he got called up by a team that literally didn’t have enough players in uniform without a couple D-Leaguers. Not exactly the stuff of long term contracts.

I’m assuming his status with the team is now more or less what it should be – he’ll make the roster unless they find someone they like better. Of course, he’s now free to go try to make another squad if he likes. That’s the advantage to him. The advantage to the Clippers is the that second year player min is lower than the QO that was on the table, so the could save $100K or so.

going to pull Williams too and then do something with the money, I don’t know what they will do but they could have something up their sleeve. Maybe they have a trade in the works and they need the money for a trade exception, probably not but you never know.

According to the Fazekas press release (which includes a recap of every transaction since the draft), they already rescinded Williams’ QO, back on July 16 when they renounced QRoss and Paul Davis. I completely missed that before. I’m not sure that it was ever reported anywhere. I know they did not send out a press release at the time.

so maybe there is a move in the works. Obviously there is something in the works seeing as we only have 12 players singed and Dunleavy likes to have 14 players on his roster with one open spot.