Re: Question on Salary Cap

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

So could a team like the Celtics offer Vin Baker a contract that will pay
him the league minimum the first 2 years and then $20 million the next 2
years?  Or could they sign him to the league minimum for 2 years and give
him a $30 million signing bonus spread out over a period of 2 years?

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> From: Ronald H. Evans <ronald_evans@pipeline.com>
> To: Marc Lamphier <lamphier@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
> Cc: celtics@igtc.COM
> Subject: Re: Question on Salary Cap
> Date: Sunday, July 13, 1997 12:02 PM
> 
> 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).