Re: Question on Salary Cap

["Ronald H. Evans" <ronald_evans@pipeline.com>]

At 11:32 PM 7/13/97 +0900, you wrote:
>Along the same lines, could LA in theory sign Grant Hill, Tim Duncan and
>Scottie Pippen at the league minimum for one year and then re-sign them the
>next as free agents paying them $20m/year each? i.e., could a cash-rich
>franchise simply buy a championship team by this method? In the NBA today
>is this exception an incentive for some players to sign cheap short-term
>contracts with clubs they think will re-sign them for big bucks? (Walt the
>Wizard comes to mind)
Players that only play for a team for a year are not able to use the Larry
Bird exception. It comes into play after the second year. That's how we got
Knight(the lakers only had him for one year and could only resign him for
~300k).