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How Brook Lopez can get security ... and a big contract

Brook Lopez is expected to opt out of the final year of his contract and try free agency. If he does, conventional wisdom is that he will give up a chance to cash in big next summer when the salary cap will be inflated by the national TV rights deal.  But in a series of tweets, Mike Mazzeo suggests that there's an alternative available to him and his agent, Arn Tellem, where he can get security ... and cash in a little later when there will be another bump in the cap.

Here's how...

Interesting: someone brought up possibility that Brook Lopez would be smart to take a two-year max deal with a third-year player option .