Re: base year compensation

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

As long as you're in a mood to explain these things, does the team receiving 
the base year player need to be able to fit the entire salary under its cap, 
or just the 50/75%? (ie. we keep hearing that to trade Antoine, the Celtics 
would only get back 4 million in salary.  Does that mean the other team 
would need 4 million of cap room to complete the deal?)    Also, is every 
free agent a "base year" player for the first two years of their new 
contract?

Jim

>From: Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>
>
>I believe that the base year compensation formula has been changed to
>50% of salary in the first year and 75% in the second year, under
>the new collective bargaining agreement. This might have been from
>the Pitino WEEI interview.
>


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