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Originally posted by: Stressboy
I have a question that some CBA expert can answer. The midlevel can be given out at 4.5 for up to 6 years or split any way you want it right? So you could sign 4 1.1 million players for up to 6 years each? Given that some of these guys are really at the end of their careers, ie Malone, Pippen, Mourning etc. could we get 2 of them if we split the exection at 2.75 each for 6 full years.
If they retire the money would come off the books earlier? And if they didn't retire I'd rather pay Malone 3 mil a year to sit on the bench than Esch.
Is that a possibility?
Stressboy
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No reason to do that because of the veteran minimum exception. You can sign any player for a league minimum contract regardless of how far over the cap you are. The league veteran salary is over $1M. So, I don't see the point of splitting the MLE between more than 2 players. We also have the Million-dollar (I think it is close to $1.5M now) exception as well.
But in answer to your question, you can split the MLE, which is what we did 2 offseasons ago with Esch and Manning. Sigh. You can split the money up any way you want, but I don't know if you can split it among more than 2 players.