Shira and the MLE

[Kim]

Salary cap FAQ says up to 12.5% raises under early bird, no restriction listed under MLE
http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#17
 although elsewhere it seems to say only 10% raises where none specified like that.
http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#44
 And the actual raises appear to be 12.5% not 15 when I did the math, starting at 5.1MM and ending up between 40MM-41MM, so it looks like early bird

Kim

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gooen <callmebogie at yahoo.com>
Sent: Jul 8, 2004 9:56 PM
To: celtics at igtc.com
Subject: Shira and the MLE

Shira isn't THAT careful/professional.  In one of her recent articles she
flatly stated that the Cs could exceed the MLE to re-sign Blount, which
clearly wasn't true.  (They'd only signed him to a 2 year deal, so they
had Early Bird rights to offer an average NBA salary, not full Bird rights
to offer a max deal.

My impression is that the Cs used Blount's Early Bird rights in making
this deal.  What I don't know for sure is whether the 15% annual increase
is a function of Early Bird (as I suspect if the Sixers didn't have the
right to offer an increase that great) or the MLE.