Essentially, with the Heat allowed the right to match any outside offer provided the make the necessary $1.2 million qualifying offer between the end of the NBA Finals and the end of June, and with Johnson effectively limited to a $6.2 million starting point for next season in a new contract, the only way to land elsewhere would be for a team to offer a heavily back-loaded deal, like the Houston Rockets did in signing Jeremy Lin away from the New York Knicks in 2012, when Lin also was subjected to the "Arenas" provision.