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Originally Posted by mary
Teams over the salary cap have three spending options in free agency.
A) The MLE
B) The LLE, ever other year
C) The veteran's minimum
The only other way to get a player in free agency, is to work out a sign and trade with the other team. What that means is, the Pistons would have re-sign Billups and then trade him to Dallas for players that meet the salary requirements.
The Mavs would have to TRADE players...hence the TRADE part of "sign and trade".
That's it.
That's all there is to it.
I can't believe you haven't picked this up somewhere along the way.
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Question for you, if you indeed an expert in this area. This is a serious question, just want a straight up answer.
Does Billups fall under the Bird Exception rule, if the Pistons knew that Billups was NOT going to re-sign with them, and they wanted Harris in a sign and trade deal. Which then also means that when a Billups is traded, his Bird rights are traded with him, and his new team can use the Bird exception to re-sign him?