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Report: Why the Nets just gave a poison-pill offer sheet to Tyler Johnson

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NBA free agency day 2 recap

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The Brooklyn Nets will sign guard Tyler Johnson to a four-year, $50 million offer sheet as soon as the free agency moratorium is over, according to The Vertical's Adrian Wojnarowski. Johnson is a restricted free agent, but it's hard to imagine the Miami Heat matching this contract.

For Johnson, the contract represents one of the most rapid financial ascensions in recent league history: From an undrafted NBA Development League guard in 2015, to participating in only 68 games over parts of the past two seasons, to a staggering poison-pill contract that guarantees seasons of $18 million-plus and $19 million-plus in the final two years of the deal.