And the provision provides only luxury-tax relief, with no salary-cap relief. So a team can't release a player to gain cap space. A: Yes. Any player who appears on a team's payroll list is eligible -- except those acquired after June That includes players who are no longer with a team but whose salary still appears on the payroll. Mourning has since signed with the Miami Heat, but the Raptors can still make Mourning their amnesty player to avoid paying the luxury tax on what they still owe him.
Boston with Vin Baker and Phoenix Howard Eisley are also expected to use the amnesty clause in this manner. Amnesty players are strictly prohibited from re-signing with the team that released them for the life of the terminated contract.
The league also snuffed out the possibility that teams might try to trade around this stipulation by including the June 21 deadline for players to be eligible to be released via the amnesty clause. Let's say Dallas wanted to trade Michael Finley to Toronto in exchange for Jalen Rose, with the Mavericks and Raptors agreeing to use their amnesty slot to release each player so both could sign back with their original teams at a reduced price.
Because such a trade couldn't be completed before June 21, neither player could be released with amnesty, meaning that the Mavericks and Raptors would get no tax break from such an arrangement. Both would become unrestricted free agents after being released by the Blazers and Lakers, so the Pistons would indeed have the right to sign both. A: Teams with extremely high payrolls. But it's not bad for those players, either. Q: Is there a reduction in a team's financial obligation to an amnesty player once he signs a new contract with another team?
Or can a player double-dip? A: The union fought to make double-dipping permissable, but the league held firm and won the right in the end to apply the usual set-off provision for players released with money owed to any amnesty player's new contract.
Abrams: Chris Kaman. The Clippers can turn the position over and help afford restricted free agent DeAndre Jordan with this move. The spirit of the amnesty clause — admitting that something is a sunk cost, then getting out of that sunk cost to give yourself a competitive advantage — goes against everything Donald Sterling is about. Abrams: Francisco Garcia. Simmons: Jimmer Time! And yes, the odds for both scenarios are pretty much the same. Abrams: So long, Richard Jefferson.
Me neither. Simmons: Good call. It makes no sense. Abrams: Trevor Ariza. They would be hard-pressed to retain both — under the old economic model and probably the incoming one, as well. America appreciates it. TM Picasso approves both of these trades. For every Simmons column and podcast, log on to Grantland. Follow him on Twitter and check out his new home on Facebook. Jonathan Abrams is a staff writer for Grantland.
Follow him on Twitter at jpdabrams. To submit questions for the next mailbag, click here ; to comment on this story through Facebook, click here. All salaries are based on what the players were set to make in the expired labor agreement, and will likely be reduced in the new deal. Also, the released players would have a chance to sign another contract and still be paid for the one from which they were released, which winds up being a sweet deal.
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More Northwest News ». More FS Northwest News ». View all Northwest Sites. More Pacific News ». More FS Pacific News ». View all Pacific Sites. There is a hour time period when the waiver request was made, in that time other professional teams will attempt to claim the waiver.
This includes the player and the remaining time left on their contract. Any professional basketball team, not just in the NBA, can claim the player and the contract. NBA teams are prioritized. If multiple NBA teams put a claim on the waiver, the team with the lowest winning percentage at that moment will be given the player, and the contract will be reflected in their salary cap.
It is important to note that only teams with enough salary cap for the contract can claim the player. In the case of a particularly bad contract, an NBA team can request for amnesty. While the team still has to pay the player, they will free up the cap space. This is called being cleared from waivers. The team who waived the player is still responsible for the remainder of their contract.
A player in free agency then has control of what team to sign with, but if they still have a remaining contract, the team that signs them will be responsible for paying off an amount of that contact.
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