[Chron] Rockets talk to Knicks but still playing the field

abc2007 · Feb 16, 2010

Thanks. Good to know this.

The Cat said:

You don't get the MLE if you have more cap space than that amount. And you can't get the MLE once you use the cap space and then go back under. It doesn't work that way.
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durvasa · Feb 16, 2010

abc2007 said:

explain?
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Larry Coon's FAQ:

http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q20

20. How do exceptions count against the cap? Does being under the cap always mean that a team has room to sign free agents? Do teams ever lose their exceptions?

If a team is below the cap, then their Disabled Player, Bi-Annual, Mid-Level and/or Traded Player exceptions are added to their team salary, and the league treats the team as though they are over the cap. This is to prevent a loophole, in a manner similar to free agent amounts (see question numbers 29, 30, 31, 32). A team can't act like they're under the cap and sign free agents using cap room, and then use their Disabled Player, Bi-Annual, Mid-Level and/or Traded Player exceptions. Consequently, the exceptions are added to their team salary (putting the team over the cap) if the team is under the cap and adding the exceptions puts them over the cap. If a team is already over the cap, then the exceptions are not added to their team salary. There would be no point in doing so, since there is no cap room for signing free agents.

So being under the cap does not necessarily mean a team has room to sign free agents. For example, assume the cap is $49.5 million, and a team has $43 million committed to salaries. They also have a Mid-Level exception for $5 million and a Traded Player exception for $5.5 million. Even though their salaries put them $6.5 million under the cap, their exceptions are added to their salaries, putting them at $53.5 million, or $4 million over the cap. So they actually have no cap room to sign free agents, and instead must use their exceptions.

Teams have the option of renouncing their exceptions in order to claim the cap room. So in the example above, if the team renounced their Traded Player and Mid-Level exceptions, then the $10.5 million is taken off their team salary, which then totals $43 million, leaving them with $6.5 million of cap room which can then be used to sign free agent(s).
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abc2007 · Feb 16, 2010

Thanks...

durvasa said:

Larry Coon's FAQ:
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jaxwithanx · Feb 16, 2010

Deckard said:

No, because he's answered the same questions for what must seem like countless times. Heck, I know I've asked him things more than once, or forgotten something I've read from him before, and if I haven't been around the block, I've at least gone down the street. Bima's a bit frustrated by it all and I don't blame him. I just want him to put up with it and stick around.
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There isn't some sort of Father-like requirement to continually answer or correct people...

I mean I appreciate the insight, most definitely, but to say you hope he 'sticks around'....I mean....is it really that crucial and impossible to ignore you would stop banging out text over a computer to an online message board.

I tend to try and gleam as much as I can before I post, but the fact of the matter is 99% of the guys on here come to check out the last few posts between the their 'real life'. I don't blame them for not dedicating hours to combing through threads before they decide to weigh in on their thoughts.

In other words it is an internet message board....not a scholarly document meant to be studied and understood before attempting to take part in.

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