My solution to the Larry Bird rule

[Warwick <giants@eisa.net.au>]

Hey all,

My rule of the Larry Bird rule part of the lockout.

Teams are allowed to go over the cap to re-sign their own free agents,
but there is a hard cap implemented.

The hard cap (highest point over the salary cap a team can go to re-sign
its own player) would be set at 134% of  the cap.

Therefore a supposed cap of $32 million would see a hard cap of $42.88
million, with teams currently over that allowed to keep their players
until they've finished their contracts (that is due to obvious legal
repurcussions that would be associated with the current teams over that
(this year there were the Orlando Magic, New York Knicks and Chicago
Bulls).

Another thing that would be fair to both is that a player can be waived
and removed from the cap as long as they are completely paid out until
they find a new team(that would work well for the Celtics and their
troubles with Greg Minor, Pervis Ellisson and Travis Knight!).

Does that sound fair to both sides?

Warwick