Finding information about Enes Kanter’s contract talks with the Thunder is about as easy as finding Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane. The Thunder typically prefer to operate in Zero Dark Thirty conditions, and their negotiations with Kanter are no different.

Some bits and pieces of info regarding the negotiations have been reported, but complete details have not. Fans and writers take that and make educated guesses as to what Kanter wants and what the Thunder is offering. While that all remains unknown, there is one contract offer sitting in front of Kanter that is absolutely known, and it doesn’t take an insider to figure it out.

In order to make Kanter a restricted free agent, the Thunder had to submit what is known as a Qualifying Offer. This is an offer that all teams can make to players coming off of the fourth year of their Rookie Scale Contracts." If teams choose not to make a Qualifying Offer to a player, the player becomes an unrestricted free agent. He can then sign anywhere and his prior team does not have the right to match the offer (Note: Qualifying Offers automatically expire on Oct. 1 unless the team agrees to extend the deadline).

The amount of the Qualifying Offer varies from player to player and is written into the Collective Bargaining Agreement. In Kanter’s case, the contract would be worth $7,471,412 next season. If he signs the Qualifying Offer, he would become an unrestricted free agent in 2016 – also known as The Summer of Money because the salary cap will skyrocket thanks to a tidal flood of national TV money that will smash into the league.