Re: Curley

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

Why do we need to use that exception on Popeye?  Since we got him via a 
trade, can't they go over the cap to sign him anyway?  Doesn't he 
qualify for the Bird or Early Bird Exception, or whatever the correct 
name for his situation is?

Jim

>Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:41:41 -0800
>From: peter delevett <pdelevett@amcity.com>
>To: Celtics <Celtics@igtc.com>
>Subject: Curley
>
>As for my earlier post re: whether we could sign Popeye to the 1-year, 
$1.6
>million exception -- are there rules restricting a team's abilty to 
re-sign a
>FA to a short-term deal for less than he made the year before?
>


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