Do people really think the lottery is fixed?

[Celtics4ever]

We never got financial relief from Lewis address that one?  We won what 1 maybe 2 titles under Stern.

[Roy H.]

We never got financial relief from Lewis address that one? 

See here:  http://www.celticsbeagle.net/cbwfaq.html#Myth:_reggie_lewis_cap_mixup

he Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) provides the rules governing players' rights, compensation, and contracts.  At the time Reggie died, there was nothing specific in the CBA covering what happened if a player under contract died.  This is the big difference when comparing any situation today with what happened then.  That's been changed, and not just to cover death, specifically because of what happened with Reggie.

When Reggie died, there was a usual policy in place where teams over the salary cap were given an exemption letting them use half the deceased player's salary to sign a reasonable replacement, which actually happened in Reggie's case.  The C's got the exemption, which would have been half of  $3-3.3 million.  However, the C's only got a $480,000 exemption because Reggie was a base year compensation rule player, which meant that his salary slot was based on the old contract rather than the new one. The C's applied both to have Reggie's salary taken off their cap completely (even though it was a guaranteed contract that would therefore still be owed to his estate and there were no provisions to do so in the CBA), because he was no longer alive to collect it, and to have the exemption increased to a full half his salary under the new contract.  Both were denied.

Which brings us to myth 2 - who denied it.  The extra relief the Cs were applying for was denied by the NBA Board of Governors, not directly by the Commissioner or other league offices.  Who's that?  The NBA Board of Governors is made up of a member of each of the league's teams.  In other words, the other teams/owners denied the C's, NOT David Stern and the league itself.

[slamdunk]

Fixed? I never knew the lottery was broken.

[Celtics4ever]

Board of Governors and Stern are most likely in bed, no?