Here's an interesting little tid bit. David Aldridge is reporting that early preliminary meetings suggest that the NBA is only going to up the Cap to around 35.5 million, not the 38-40 million most expect. He made these comments on NBA 2 night early this morning. This would put a monkey wrench in alot of teams plans to aquire anyone this offseason.
But isn't the 4.5 exception we got regardless of the salary cap? The salary cap does not have any effect of signing draftees, right?
Dreamshake That must mean the NBA is expecting bad revenue numbers. I say both the players and teams deserve it for the lock-out. Free agents get less money because the team's revenue numbers are down.
The $38-40 numbers also makes you wonder whether the player's association was made to believe whether the BRI calculation could easily exceed $35.5 min. Probably the media was just being overexurberant.
heypartner...you may be correct about the media overexaggerating the 38-40 million supposed cap, but according to Aldridge some NBA teams were assuming the same type figures. Teams like *ahem* the Jazz, who are right at the cap, and was hoping to have a few million to sign a quality player, will not have diddly but a few hundred thousand. He also commented that teams like the Bulls and Magic aren't going to have as much space as initially thought either.
The $4.5M exception that we have can only be used in trades. It cannot be used to sign free agents. Indirectly, the $4.5M exception could be used to get a FA via a sign and trade. Right?
