MikeDead
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 Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:32 am Post subject: Bird Years |
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What's the deal with the Bird Years?
This would be Danny Granger's 3rd year in the league, all spent with the Pacer's before being traded to me, but those bird years carry over, but it seems like every player no matter what is set with 0 bird years?
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Perhaps the most well-known of the NBA's salary cap exceptions, it is so named because the Boston Celtics were the first team permitted to exceed the salary cap to re-sign one of their own players (in that case, Larry Bird). Free agents who qualify for this exception are called "qualifying veteran free agents" or "Bird Free Agents" in the CBA, and this exception falls under the auspices of the Veteran Free Agent exception. In a nutshell, the Larry Bird exception allows teams to exceed the salary cap to re-sign their own free agents, at an amount up to the maximum salary. To qualify as a Bird free agent, a player must have played three seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent. This means a player can obtain "Bird rights" by playing under three one-year contracts, a single contract of at least three years, or any combination thereof. It also means that when a player is traded, his Bird rights are traded with him, and his new team can use the Bird exception to re-sign him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Salary_... |
So shouldn't Granger have some bird years on his contract?
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