The Atlanta Hawks are unlikely to make a full max offer to Paul Millsap in free agency.

“We are going to make Paul our best offer,” Travis Schlenk said this week. “Will he have better offers? I don’t know. Do we want to keep Paul? Sure. I said last week, if you are building a team with all the things I’ve said, Paul checks all those boxes. He’s a hard-worker. He’s a good guy. He’s high-character. Skilled. He does all that stuff. We’d like to have him. The reality is, he might get better offers than we can make him.”

Millsap can sign for as much as $205 million over five seasons with the Hawks or $152 million over four seasons with a rival team. Millsap is currently 32 and this contract will take him into his late 30s.

Schlenk said he has met twice with Millsap’s representation with a breakfast meeting just after his hire and a tour of the team’s soon-to-be completed practice facility last week.

Hawks principal owner Tony Ressler has said that he was willing to do whatever is necessary to keep Millsap.