« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2018, 08:38:52 AM »
Does anyone know why the rules work the way they do?
Yes. To prevent teams from signing a player to a below-market rate with a wink-wink deal to give an above-market extension a couple years later, enabling teams to effectively get around the salary cap.
that is easy to solve, you just limit the extension to what they could otherwise sign as. If the team could only offer a player 20 million on the open market then that would be the most they could extend for. That isn't the case with Irving, Klay, or Draymond though.
I don’t quite understand your proposal. How do you define what the player could sign in the open market as?
If said player was a free agent that season, what could his current team sign him for. So if Baynes, for example, still had another year left, Boston wouldn't be able to sign him for more than like 6 million in an extension because that is what they would be limited to sign him for. If Irving was a free agent this summer, Boston could sign him to the 30% max. They should be able to sign him to the 30% max extension this summer (with it starting after his current deal of course). It is just a silly rule that a team can't offer an extension that would equal what that same team could offer if the player didn't have a year left.
I think that’s exactly the rule that the NBA doesn’t want, so that you can’t sign someone to a 2-year $20 million deal and turn around and extend him to a 4-year $80 million dollar deal (which he’s be eligible for in free agency with Early Bird rights). Or a 3-year, $30 million deal that leaves him eligible for up to the max.
But that doesn't make sense as the extension wouldn't kick in until he could otherwise sign the contract. I'm not suggesting they alter in anyway the 2 year, 20 million, but if the team can sign the guy with Early Bird Rights (basically what James did in Cleveland), why should they be barred from doing that with an extension. It is the exact contract they can offer when his contract expires. It just doesn't make sense that you get that contract by finishing out the contract, but you have to wait until it is finished. There is no real difference other then a lot of uncertainty for both the team and player.
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