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The MLE is $5 million for a duration of four years for teams that are over the cap either before or after the signing, but did not pay a luxury tax in the previous season. Teams without cap room that paid tax in the previous season have an MLE of $3 million with a three-year duration. The MLE can increase up to 3% per season.

The bi-annual exception was used to sign any free agent to a contract starting at $1.672 million. Like the mid-level exception, the bi-annual exception was also split among more than one player, and was used to sign players for up to two years, which raised limited to 8% per year. This exception was referred to as the "$1 million exception" in the 1999 CBA, although it was valued at $1 million for only the first year of the agreement.

The exception was eliminated for luxury tax paying teams following the 2011 NBA lockout as many high spending teams were using this as a tool to gain top paid players.


Ramon Sessions - opts out
J.R. Smith - opts out
Lou Williams - opts out
Jamal Crawford - opts out
Matt Carroll - opts in
DeSegana Diop - opts in
Jason Maxiell - opts in
Mo Williams - opts in
Ronny Turiaf - opts in
Beno Udrih - opts in
Jordan Farmar - opts in
Earl Clark - opts in
Shawne Williams - opts in
Patty Mills - opts in


Restricted Free Agents:

Blake Ahearn
Morris Almond
Solomon Alabi
Alan Anderson
Ben Uzoh
Danny Green - signs w/ Kings
Jason Thompson - resigns w/ Kings
Terrence Williams - signs offer sheet w/ Bobcats
J.J. Hickson - resigns with Portland
Aaron Brooks - signs with Bobcats
Lavoy Allen
Jodie Meeks - signs offer sheet w/ Cavaliers
Sam Young
Ryan Anderson - signed and traded to Boston
DeAndre Liggins
Darryl Watkins
Sundiata Gaines
Armon Johnson
Darius Morris
Brook Lopez - signs offer sheet w/ Philadelphia
Anthony Randolph - signs offer sheet w/ Cleveland
Lester Hudson
Marreese Speights - signs offer sheet w/ Philly
A.J. Price - signs with New York
Mickell Gladness
Vernon Macklin
Walker Russell
Rudy Fernandez - signs with Minnesota
JaVale McGee - signs offer sheet with Philly
Terrel Harris
Alonzo Gee - resigns w/ Cleveland
Luke Harangody
D.J. Augustin - sign and trade to Bucks
Derrick Brown - apart of sign and trade to Clips
Cory Higgins
Greg Stiemsma - resigns w/ Boston
Ivan Johnson

Unrestricted Free Agents:

Tier 1:
None

Tier 2:
Courtney Lee - signs with Cleveland
Jeff Green - resigns with Boston
Leandro Barbosa - signs with Cleveland
Andrei Kirilenko - signs with Memphis
Lou Williams - resigns with Philly
Ramon Sessions - signs with Chicago
Tim Duncan - resigns with San Antonio
Ray Allen - signs with Minnesota
Ersan Ilyasova - sign and trade to Indiana
Elton Brand - signs with Miami
Carl Landry - signs with Denver
Raymond Felton - signs with Indiana
Kirk Hinrich - signs with Miami
Chris Kaman - signs with OKC
Kris Humphries - signs with Nets
Nick Young - sign and trade to Bobcats
Marcus Camby - signs with Clippers
Grant Hill - signs with Golden State
Randy Foye - resigns w/ LAC
John Salmons - signs w/ Golden State
O.J. Mayo - signs w/ Dallas



Tier 3:
Antwan Jamison - signs with Indiana
Jameer Nelson - signs w/ Philly
Brendan Haywood - signs w/ Nets
Kyle Korver - signs with Kings
Jerryd Bayless - signs w/ Philadelphia
Jordan Hill - signs w/ Cleveland
Mike MIller - signs with Indiana
Al Harrington - signs with Golden State
J.R. Smith - signs w/ Charlotte
Delonte West - signs with Toronto
Beno Udrih - signs w/ Sacramento
Tyrus Thomas - signs w/ Sacramento
Charlie Villanueva - signs with Indiana
Steve Novak - resigns w/ New York
Petteri Koponen
Peja Stojakovic - signs with Clippers
Linas Kleiza
Devin Ebanks - signs with Indiana
Rashard Lewis - signs with Toronto
Gilbert Arenas
Josh Childress
Tracy McGrady - signs w/ Boston
Matt Barnes - signs with Minnesota
Darell Arthur - signs with Miami
Donte Greene - signs w/ Houston
Kenyon Martin - resigns with Clippers
Shaun Livingston - signs with Atlanta
Darius Morris
C.J. Miles - signs with Boston
Alexis Ajinca
Louis Amundson
Hilton Armstrong
Carlos Arroyo
Marcus Banks
Earl Barron
Tony Battie
Marco Belinelli - signs with New York
Charlie Bell
Mike Bibby - signs w/ Philly
Keith Bogans
Boran Bogdanovic
Earl Boykins
Kwame Brown - signs with Miami
Shannon Brown - signs with Indiana
Rasual Butler
Derrick Caracter
Brian Cardinal
DeMarr Carroll
Anthony Carter
Earl Clark
Brian Cook
Jason Collins
Eddy Curry
Erick Dampier
Antonio Daniels
Marquis Daniels
Baron Davis - signs with Clippers
Josh Davis
Ike Diogu
Keyon Dooling - resigns with Boston
Joey Dorsey
Francisco Elson
Melvin Ely
Semih Erden - signs w/ Indiana
Jeremy Evans - signs w/ Nuggets
Maurice Evans
Reggie Evans - signs with Indiana
Dan Gadzuric
Sundiata Gaines
Joey Graham
Stephen Graham
Aaron Gray
Willie Green
Hamed Haddadi - signs with Memphis
Luke Harangody
Ryan Hollins
Eddie House
Josh Howard - signs w/ Philly
Juwan Howard
Larry Hughes
Didier Ilunga-Mbenga
Royal Ivey
Jason Kidd - signs with New York.
Darnell Jackson
Jared Jeffries
Trey Johnson
Solomon Jones
Jason Kapono
Acie Law
Jamaal Magloire
Ian Mahinmi - signs with New Orleans
Atok Majok
Roger Mason
Dominic McGuire
Nazr Mohammed - signs w/ the Nuggets
Jamario Moon
Troy Murphy
Eduardo Najera
Hamady Ndiaye
Mehmet Okur - signs with Memphis
Jermaine O'Neal - signs w/ Houston
Larry Owens
Jannero Pargo
Anthony Parker - signed w/ Houston
Sasha Pavlovic
Mickael Pietrus - resigns with Boston
James Posey
Leon Powe
Josh Powell
Ronnie Price - signs w/ Denver
Chris Quinn
Vlad Radmonovic
Michael Redd - signs w/ Miami
Andy Routins - signs with New York
Brian Scalabrine
Mustafa Shakur
Craig Smith
Ishmael Smith
Jerry Stackhouse
DeShawn Stevenson - signs w/ Boston
DeJuan Summers
Sebastian Telfair - signs with the Hornets
Jamaal Tinsley
Etan Thomas
Al Thornton
Anthony Tolliver - signs with New York
Ronny Turiaf - signs w/ Toronto
Sasha Vujacic
Bill Walker
Craig Brackins
Chris Wilcox - resigns with Boston
Damien Wilkins
Sean Williams
Shelden Williams - signs with New York
Julian Wright
Jerome Dyson
Darryl Watkins
Mickell Gladness
Dominic McGuire
Mikki Moore
Nate Robinson - signs w/ Boston
Brandon Rush - signs with New Orleans
Chris Wright
Morris Almond
Brian Cook
Maurice Evans
Shelvin Mack
Vernon Macklin
Cartier Martin
James Singleton
DeSagana Diop
Cory Higgins
D.J. White
Luke Harangody
Manny Harris
Donald Sloan


PLEASE POST NUMBERS ON SIGNED RFA's, SO THE OTHER TEAM KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE OR ARE NOT MATCHING, SIMPLY SAYING MAX WILL NOT SUFFICE

moved

Ok sorry I just had to clear this up. Let's detach the game from real life. Take a picture of the league right now, and read on reports and what not. Thus here is a list of all FAs (both restricted and unrestricted) and what happens/should happen. Take note, I assumed that all verbally agreed upon contracts are increasing (i.e. they are not frontloaded) unless otherwise reported.

Kevin Garnett agrees to go to Boston on a 34/3 million contract (7.5% raise) details as follow:
10,542,636 || 11,333,333 || 12,124,031

Gerald Wallace agrees to go to Nets on a 40/4 million contract (7.5%) details as follow:
8,988,764 || 9,662,921 || 10,337, 079 || 11, 011, 236

Omer Asik agrees to contract with Houston (4.5%) - CHI GM has the ability to match. details as follow:
for HOU its: 8,006,380 || 8,366,667 || 8,726,954
for CHI (if they match) its: 5,000,000 || 5,225,000 || 14,875,000 --> Gilbert Arenas Provision

Lavoy Allen agrees to go to 76ers on a 6/2 mil contract (7.5% raise) details as follow:
2,891,566 || 3,108,434

Andre Miller agrees to go to Nuggets on a 9/3 mil contract (no raise, if reports are right) details as follow:
3,000,000 || 3,000,000 || 3,000,000

Hibbert agrees to go to Blazers (4.5%) - IND GM can match. details as follow:
13,583,138 || 14,194,379 || 14,805,621 || 15,416,862

Hill agrees to go to Pacers (7.5%) on a ~40/5 contract mirroring Marcus Thornton's deal. details as follow:
7,000,000 || 7,525,000 || 8,050,000 || 8,575,000 || 9,100,000

Teletovic agrees to go to Nets using the mini-MLE(4.5%). details as follow:
3,090,000 || 3,229,050 || 3,368,100

Fields agrees to go to Raptors on a 19/3 million contract(4.5%) - NYK GM can match. Details as follow:
for TOR its: 6,060,606 || 6,333,333 || 6,606,061
for NYK its: 5,000,000 || 5,225,000 || 8,775,000

Evans agrees to a S&T to Nets on a 5/3 million contract (4.5%) details as follow:
1,594,896 || 1,666,667 || 1,738,437
as part of the deal, BKN send LAC a future 2nd round pick (as the protection is not yet reported it would be best if both GMs talk about this, yes?)

Williams agrees to go to Nets on a massive 98.75/5 million contract (7.5%) details as follow:
17,173,913 || 18,461,957 || 19,750,000 || 21,038,043 || 22,326,087

Hawes agrees to go to 76ers on a 13.1/2 million contract (7.5%) details as follow:
6,313,253 || 6,786, 747

Dragic agrees to go to Suns on a 30/4 million contract (4.5%). Note that the reported 34/4 includes bonuses of 4 million, which will not count against the cap since I believe they are unlikely bonuses. details as follow:
7,025,761 || 7,341,920 || 7,658,080 || 7,974,239 (player option)

Beasley agrees to go to Suns on a 18/3 million contract (4.5%). details as follow:
5,741,627 || 6,000,000 || 6,258,373

Thabeet agrees to a 2 year minimum contract with OKC, details as follow:
885,120 || 885,120

Gordon agrees to go to PHX on a 58/4 million contract (4.5%) - which NOH can match. details as follow:
13,583,138 || 14,194,379 || 14,805,621 || 15,416,862

Lin agrees to go to HOU on a 28.8/4 million contract - which NYK can match. details as follow:
for NYK its: 5,000,000 || 5,225,000 || 9,300,000 || 9,300,000 (team option)

Roy agrees to go to MIN on a 10.4/2 million contract. details as follow:
5,085,575 || 5,314,425

Batum agrees to go to MIN on 45/4 contract (again, 50/4 includes unlikely bonuses) - which POR can match. details as follow:
10,538,642 || 11,012,881 || 11,487,119 || 11,961,358

Billups to LAC on a one year contract - 4.3 million

Crawford to LAC on a 25/4 million contract. details as follow:
5,854,801 || 6,118,267 || 6,381,733 || 6,645,199

Nash to LAL via S&T. Nash will receive 27/3 million contract. details as follow:
8,612,440 || 9,000,000 || 9,387,560

as part of the deal, LAL sends PHX 2013 1st (worst between MIA, LAL and CLE) and an unprotected 2015 LAL and 2 unprotected 2nd round pick from LAL (LAL and PHX should coordinate since details of the 2 picks haven't been released yet)..

Bass to BOS on 20/3 mil contract. details as follow:
6,201,550 || 6,666,667 || 7,131,783

Terry to BOS on 15/3 mil contract. details as follow:
5,000,000 || 5,225,000 || 5,450,000

because of this signing, BOS GM has a hard cap of 74 million to work with.
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If there were any FA signings I missed BEFORE 1 AM GMT+8 (that's my time), please inform me. Everything else right now is not official including Kidd to NY deal. What needs to happen is Mavs and NY should talk on a S&T.

If I missed anything, please inform me via email or aim. Thank you.

please be noted that for teams who previously owned rights to UFAs who have signed contracts above, have their cap holds now released. For RFAs, GMs please post/inform whether you match or not

That was the post I was waiting for, I endorse this post it will make the game run more smoothly and after talking to nikkoewan I believe this is the best approach to the FA that have "signed". You can find the numbers here and trade these players immediately. I was struggling to make this decision but if I don't choose one approach and go 100% in that direction the game will become messy.

Thank you nikkoewan for all the hard work you put in.

with that out of the way, New Orleans decides to match the offer for Mr. Eric "my heart is in PHO" Gordon. I believe now that he got his money, his heart is with us? LOL

Portland protest - Why not let the RL scenerios play out. If Indy matches - Hibbert stays, but if they don't and get Kaman and OJ Mayo, why not mimic the real moves in the NBA? We can allow all the deals to play out or arbitrarily just have those few count and others not. I know 7 player deals can be the norm in the game, but there really are not that many in the real league.

Blazer50 wrote:Portland protest - Why not let the RL scenerios play out. If Indy matches - Hibbert stays, but if they don't and get Kaman and OJ Mayo, why not mimic the real moves in the NBA? We can allow all the deals to play out or arbitrarily just have those few count and others not. I know 7 player deals can be the norm in the game, but there really are not that many in the real league.

Allowing RL to interact with the game will disrupt the flow of the game. Its why we take what's at hand from the time the FA list was posted. Why you ask?

Well, imagine if the MIN GM was able to pull of a good trade for Derrick Williams, and because POR GM matched Batum, he didn't get him. However, once we reach July 11, and the RL MIN was able to construct a S&T for Batum involving Derrick Williams, what happens then to the Derrick Williams trade the MIN GM in GMAT was able to pull of? Do we retract it? what if by retracting it, we are also retracting another trade (if for example pieces involved in the Derrick Williams GMAT trade were trade again)? and then because we retracted another trade, another trade is destroyed possibly because of luxury tax purposes? (maybe they wanted to go under the luxury tax to use the 5 million MLE)?

By doing this (taking a mental image of the RL) and then playing off that, instead of depending on the interaction between RL and GMAT, we are setting ourselves up for a more cohesive league. No trades will be retracted because of any transactions in RL.

Well the fact that the Blazers have the Cap Space to offer a Max deal to Hibbert and have not made other offers, while MN alledgely has a 45-50M offer to Batum (with the $$$ listed?) while their salary cap is at $57,000,000 make one wonder? The Wolves have signed Brandon to a $ 5.2M offer (with cap space as they do not have a MLE while under the cap). So amnesty Darko, waive Webster and Miller and MN is still $ 300,000 short of having the money to sign Batum at 11M. Let's call that one real and include it, but not get bogged down in RL issues as respects the rest of the deals.

The Great Deal they were going to get for Derrick Williams was a S&T for Batum with Webster - which Portland is prepared to reject. By the way, it is also reportetd that Rick Adelman cannot get along with Derrick Williams. I will wait to see what happens in FA in RL and we can mix that with Agents reports. Maybe the Batum for Iggy with Williams to Philly will go down - or some other rumor.

Solution - Wait for the 15th to deal with players who are Restricted FA (and those suggested in real deals).

Scott, we already decided lets try and move the game along now. I respect your opinion but I think I have to make the call on this one. Nikkoewan's list will be upheld.

Blazer50 wrote:Well the fact that the Blazers have the Cap Space to offer a Max deal to Hibbert and have not made other offers, while MN alledgely has a 45-50M offer to Batum (with the $$$ listed?) while their salary cap is at $57,000,000 make one wonder? The Wolves have signed Brandon to a $ 5.2M offer (with cap space as they do not have a MLE while under the cap). So amnesty Darko, waive Webster and Miller and MN is still $ 300,000 short of having the money to sign Batum at 11M. Let's call that one real and include it, but not get bogged down in RL issues as respects the rest of the deals.

The Great Deal they were going to get for Derrick Williams was a S&T for Batum with Webster - which Portland is prepared to reject. By the way, it is also reportetd that Rick Adelman cannot get along with Derrick Williams. I will wait to see what happens in FA in RL and we can mix that with Agents reports. Maybe the Batum for Iggy with Williams to Philly will go down - or some other rumor.

Solution - Wait for the 15th to deal with players who are Restricted FA (and those suggested in real deals).

I don't know what MIN's finances are, but fact is again, interacting RL while the game is in progress will be very very confusing. Go talk to BlackIce. need to sleep. Bad

So for guys that signed after that deadline (e.g. Speights, Darrel Arthur for me), what happens to them?

All Real life events eg retirements amnesties signings that happenned after friday do not affect our ga
Game. Eg Ray Allen is still a free agent

Ok cool.

What about Qualifying Offers then, presumably we can rescind ones issues IRL but where deals were not agreed by Friday?

lukekarts wrote:Ok cool.

What about Qualifying Offers then, presumably we can rescind ones issues IRL but where deals were not agreed by Friday?

correct

BlackIce wrote:That was the post I was waiting for, I endorse this post it will make the game run more smoothly and after talking to nikkoewan I believe this is the best approach to the FA that have "signed". You can find the numbers here and trade these players immediately. I was struggling to make this decision but if I don't choose one approach and go 100% in that direction the game will become messy.

Thank you nikkoewan for all the hard work you put in.

So let me get this straight. Any of the real life signings that took place after the post you liked don't count in the game. I am curious because in real life the Knicks resigned Steve Novak and traded Jerome Jordan, Josh Harrelson, Toney Douglas, cash and 2 future seconds for Marcus Camby.

skflives wrote:

BlackIce wrote:That was the post I was waiting for, I endorse this post it will make the game run more smoothly and after talking to nikkoewan I believe this is the best approach to the FA that have "signed". You can find the numbers here and trade these players immediately. I was struggling to make this decision but if I don't choose one approach and go 100% in that direction the game will become messy.

Thank you nikkoewan for all the hard work you put in.

So let me get this straight. Any of the real life signings that took place after the post you liked don't count in the game. I am curious because in real life the Knicks resigned Steve Novak and traded Jerome Jordan, Josh Harrelson, Toney Douglas, cash and 2 future seconds for Marcus Camby.

Correct.

Damn. In a way that's good and in a way that sucks. lol

Portland Trail Blazers Match MN Offer to Nic Batum. Roster updated to new Salary.