Re: base year compensation

[Shailendra Mishra <shailendra_mishra@yahoo.com>]

It is actually the other way round:

Let's take Walkers example:
Walker is a base year compensation player with  a 70 mill contract. Now
 Walker (in his first year i.e. after july) can be traded to a team for
a player who makes as much money 
  = max(1/3(base year salary, last years salary);
In his 2nd year the formulae changes to:
   = max(1/2(base year salary, 2 previous years salary)
and so on.

The problem is to find a player who is good and is paid less money, but
other base year compensation players can very well be traded for
Walker. Now all one has to do is find another trigger happy GM like
Rick Pitino. 
                     - Mishra

--- Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu> wrote:
> Jim, 
> 
> Just about the only thing I know about the new
> base-year compensation
> rules are that the percentages are different. My
> impression is that
> the other team would need cap room (which is why
> Walker would be 
> very hard to trade) but I'm not at all sure about
> it. Does anyone
> else have a clue about this? 
> 
> Alex
> 
> > 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
> 
> 
> 
> 

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