PJ Brown Question.

[Celts17Pride]

Does anyone know what the max amount the Celtics could resign PJ Brown for in 2008-2009 ?

What I am thinking is if PJ Brown doesn't want to play again can the Celtics resign him and trade him like an expiring contract. Just like Dallas did with Van Horn in the Jason Kidd trade. PJ Brown gets money for nothing and the Celtics get to use his expiring contract. PJ Brown never reports to his new team.

Thanks in advance.

[sully00]

Not really an option. He was on the vet minimum last year.

The not showing up part isn't really an option either KVH had to sit on the Nets bench for the guaranteed portion of his contract.

[chakdaddy]

This brings up an interesting point, although it's moot since we have no Bird rights with PJ since we only had him 1 season.

I always wondered why we couldn't have re-signed Olowokandi at the end of last year, gotten his Bird rights since we had him 3 years, then sign-and-trade him like Van Horn...

But the problem is, if you take a small salaried guy like Olowokandi, and re-sign him to a big 1 year (3 year with years 2+3 nonguaranteed) contract for a sign and trade....the base year compensation rules go into effect and mess everything up.

Basically since Van Horn's PRIOR contract was ALSO big, his new ballast contract was not a huge raise, so BYC wasn't a huge issue. So that loophole remains; but the BYC rules keep teams from re-signing minimum guys to sham/cap ballast contracts for sign-and-trade deals, which is a good thing, really.