- --=_ORCL_12136215_0_11919707071223090 Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit Content-Type:text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" For a player to qualify for Larry Bird clause he has to be their for 3 years. The interpretation is a little different in case of trades wherein the years are counted from the date the player was signed. - Mishra - --=_ORCL_12136215_0_11919707071223090 Content-Type:message/rfc822