Re: base year compensation

[Shailendra Mishra <shailendra_mishra@yahoo.com>]

There are two scenarios here:

If it's a trade, then one doesn't need any cap room as long as the
salaries are within 15% (or is it 10%?) of each other. Sprewell for
Starks and others <Spre was a 3rd year base year compensation player>.

If it is not a trade where the taker has cap room then all they need is
to fit the base year cap. The hard part in a base year compensation
player is to get something suitable in return because of very low cap
nos. - Mishra

PS: Regarding base year cap nos: The parenthisis indicate
multiplication and , indicates a tuple. 

--- Jim Meninno <jim_meninno@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Mishra,
> 
> I don't think you understood the question.  It was,
> does the team taking the 
> base year player need the cap room to fit his entire
> salary? For instance, 
> if they are taking on a 9m contract and giving up
> only 3m, do they need an 
> additional 6m in cap room?  My guess is they do or
> this could be a way of 
> teams getting around the cap.
> 
> Also, if you're still with me, who are base year
> players?  Is it all signed 
> free agents, or only Bird Exceptions, or what?
> 
> By the way, what does this mean?
> max(1/3(base year salary, last years salary)
> I'm guessing you meant...
> max(1/3*base year salary, last years salary).
> 
> Jim
> 
> >From: 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
> 
> 
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