I saw on the SportsCenter crawl that Houston expects him to be able to return to the court sometime this season. Exactly why were they allowed an injury exception for Trevor Ariza, again? http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6519742.html Here is more from ESPN. Seems like Houston was able to keep their MLE because of this exception from what I'm reading. I really don't understand why the league granted this exception.
I thought they used the extra space to sign Anderson, and Ariza was using their original, normal, first MLE. But regardless, it's still frustrating that they got it to work. Morey is a solid GM.
I think it's odd that HOU was granted the exception for Yao's foot injury. But the Knicks didn't get relief for Cat Mobley retiring from heart issues b/c he didn't have an injury or illness that was in compliance with Technically, the illness "happened" (was found out) when he was a member of the Clippers. As for the CBA take on this: even though it seems shady, provisions say that Yao was ruled as having a Disabling Injury or Illness: So a league-approved doctor ruled, I guess, that Yao was out all season. If the League and the PA agrees, then he gets the exception. If they use it before he plays again, no problem. It's only if he plays before they use it that it goes away. PapaG's right, though. Morey said himself that: He also said that they would've used the entire MLE on Ariza if they had to, which means that the de facto players received by this exception were anyone signed by the MLE (Andersen). I think it's odd that the NBA would rule before Yao actually decided. If everyone agreed that he could play this year if he didn't have the surgery, or that he would definitely be out if he did; why not wait until he has the surgery to give the exception? Answer: probably b/c they wouldn't have been able to sign players using the exception during the FA period, if ever. The league totally hooked up the Rockets.
I still wonder why last year's team didn't apply for the injury exception for RLEC. James Posey would have been a nice addition, especially using hindsight after Webster's injury. How about Turiaf to be the back-up PF? Both were available, and both would have cost nothing more than an extra tax payment for one year.
They couldn't because of the rule that says the Disabled player must be under contract for another year AFTER the exception is granted. Since RL was an EC, we couldn't apply for it.
ariza was signed using the injury exception but he would have been signed using the mle had the rockets not been given the injury exception. so the injury exception really was irrelevant in the signing of ariza. the guy the rockets were able to add due to the injury exception was david anderson(even though they used a portion of the mle to sign him).
and where did you get the idea that the rockets expect him to play this season? http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4433605
On the crawler on SportsCenter. It didn't say it was certain, but there appears to be a chance. The NBA acted too quickly in granting Houston the flexibility that the IPE gave them.
Hindsight again, but the Blazers would likely have a Posey/Turiaf-type player had they gone this route with Darius Miles.
