Re: Right of First Refusal

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

Must mean that a team gets to match any offer made against such a free 
agent as is the case with "restricted" free agents in other sports.  
Does that mean that teams don't have to sign a player 1 year ahead of 
their free agency just to keep from losing them?  If so, I like it.  
Even if the rookie contracts stayed at three years, a team would only 
lose the player if another team was willing to pay over the odds for 
him.  

Jim

>Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:27:13 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Right of First Refusal
>To: celtics@igtc.COM
>
>The players recently proposed a three year rookie deal with the team
>getting the right of first refusal when it was up.  Does anyone know
>what this means?
>
>Josh
>
>P.S.  My new column on the Cs should be up sometime tomorrow.
>
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