what was to stop PA from signing raef to a huge 1 year deal and having him remain a super large expiring deal? has this ever been done? basically signing a guy to a big one year deal so he could be a trading chip?
I think it could have been done over the summer, but not now. There was talk the Bulls might sign PJ Brown when he became a FA so they could use his salary in trade.
There are a couple of complications,though it has been done. Keith Van Horn in the Kidd deal, for instance. It would need to be a 3yr deal, though the last 2 can be non-guaranteed. The player would have to at least make a good faith effort to compete (league could veto it). Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...eives_unlikely_assist_from.html#ixzz0bPg3eqUP
Why would it need to be a 3 year deal? I guess it would if it was done as an extension, but we could have just signed him as our own free agent, and there is nothing preventing a one-year deal for a vet. This got me thinking about whether we still own his Bird rights, and whether we could sign and trade him now. I think the answer is no, I think we must have renounced him (after he was a free agent) in order to have his salary come off our cap. barfo
I'm confused, I thought we can't sign anyone over MLE because we'll be over the salary cap next year??
I don't believe this would be possible. We renounced his rights, along with Schrempf and others, leading up to 2009 Free Agency. If we hadn't, we wouldn't have been able to sign Andre Miller.
No. As of early 2008 season we still had Nedzad, Schrempf, Dudley and others on our "not retired" list.
I think because we hadn't been under the cap in a millenia there was no need to renounce players. Pretty funny actually.
