The Bucks front office conducted at least two dozen discussions on whether or not to extend a qualifying offer to Charlie Vllanueva, a person with knowledge of the situation said.

The person said matching Villanueva's offers as a restricted free agent, or possibly keeping him on the one-year tender for about $4.7 million would have eliminated the flexibility general manager John Hammond had just achieved by trading Richard Jefferson, who was due $29.2 million over the next two seasons.

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