Re: FRANCHISE PLAYERS

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

The hard cap demand is dead.  Has been for months.  The owners have 
agreed to retaining the LBE and letting teams sign their own free agents 
after using it.  The only substantive demand left is a maximum on 
individual players salaries, based on years in the league (how is that 
possibly anti-middle class?).  There is nothing stopping a team from 
paying all of their players the maximum, if they can afford it.  You 
could technically say that's a hard cap of about $150 million, I 
suppose.

I agree with whoever said the franchise player idea would lead to all 
the Pippens of the league jumping ship to be someone else's franchise 
player.

Jim

>Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 07:19:53 -0500
>To: celtics@igtc.com
>From: Kim Malo <kmalo19@idt.net>
>Subject: Re: FRANCHISE PLAYERS

>The term franchise player only entered into things as part of the hard 
cap
>talk, because franchise player designations are part of the structure 
in the
>major sport that currently operates under a hard cap -football. Don't 
see
>what's so out of line in merely talking about it, myself, even if I 
don't
>favor the idea. Expectations of money have nothing to do with the
>terminology being used.
>


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