Re: LA cap

["Timothy Jordan" <patsrule90@geocities.com>]

> I've read here and elsewhere that the Lakers really wanted to keep
> Travis Knight (and that Knight wanted tos tay) but could only pay him
> chump change because of their salary cap restraints. I thought teams
> were not restrained by the salary cap when it came to signing their own
> free agents (the Larry Bird clause). Can anybody clear up this
> confusion? Thanks.
> 
> - tom
> 

They could resign him for what the Celtics offered but that would of just
killed there cap space until 2005.  They chose not to.