Re: Another cap suggestion

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

Ignore my reply.  Joe put it much better than I did.

Good night,
Jim

>From: j.hironaka@unesco.org
>Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:42:10 +0100
>To: Douglas342@aol.com, celtics <celtics@igtc.com>
>Subject: Re: Another cap suggestion
>
>Douglas342@aol.com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 11/18/98 2:34:31 PM Central Standard Time,
>> jim_meninno@hotmail.com writes:
>>
>> > What if the LBE could only be
>> >  used to match offers from other teams for your free agents.  So, 
if
>> you
>> >  had a free agent you could either sign him for an amount within 
the
>> cap
>> >  or he would test the market.  If he did, you could match any offer
>> he
>> >  got.
>>     Jim, wouldn't you have a problem in that the other offering team
>> would
>> have to be able to sign the free agent to the offered contract?  But
>> how can,
>> for example, the Celtics offer Jordan $30 mil when he isn't the
>> Celtics' free
>> agent?  The Cs can only offer him whatever they - the Cs - have under
>> their
>> own cap, right?
>
>Well, I think you sum up Jim's point.  High end salaries for "franchise
>players" would be determined by what competing clubs are in any 
position
>to bid, rather than what slick agents can con dumb-ass, 
mid-life-crisis,
>billionaire owners ("Hello T-Wolves and Blazers") into paying for
>unfinished basketball talent.
>
>
>


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