RE: correction

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

On Friday, July 10, 1998 5:01 PM, Noah P. Evans [SMTP:ishbak@conknet.com] 
wrote:
> I was wrong about the Kemp matter. According to a Seattle times article 
at
> http://www.seattletimes.com/todaysnews/browse/html/kemp_102396.html, 
Kemp's
> contract could only be extended/renegotiated after October 1997(which it
> was, by Cleveland). It was not, as I had said, renegotiable as long as
> Seattle had cap room.
> 	However, Mcilvaine's(I can spell it now) contract still put Seattle over
> the cap at the renegotiation point, October '97. That was why Kemp forced 
a
> trade.
>
> Noah
>


Why would their cap situation impact them giving Kemp more ?  Doesn't the 
Larry Bird exception, the heart of the current lockout,  allow them to go 
over the cap to resign a player ?  Maybe simply increasing his contract 
does not qualify if it is not up ?