Kelly Oubre and the starter criteria

There’s a little thing in the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement known as starter criteria which could have an effect on Kelly Oubre and the Wizards in restricted free agency next summer, if he and the team don’t agree to an early extension this summer.

The way it works is that if a player taken between the 10th and 30th overall pick in the draft starts at least 41 games or plays at least 2000 minutes the season before they enter restricted free agency, or if they average those numbers over the previous two seasons, their qualifying offer is automatically raised to the same price as the qualifying offer for the ninth overall pick.

Last season, Oubre only started 11 games, but he played…