What if a team likes its first round pick and wants to sign him, but either feels he isn worth the scale salary or doesn want to commit to two seasons?
They’re stuck. In essence, this makes late first round picks less valuable, because it forces teams to make a two-year commitment to a marginal player. It was worse under the previous CBA, when the minimum commitment was three years. In 1996, rather than give their first round pick Travis Knight (29th overall) a three-year deal, the Bulls renounced him, making him a free agent.
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- What if a team likes its first round pick and wants to sign him, but either feels he isn worth the set salary or doesn want to commit to a long contract?
- What if a team likes its first round pick and wants to sign him, but either feels he isn worth the scale salary or doesn want to commit to two seasons?
- Can a team with cap room sign all the free agents it wants (up to the salary cap) and THEN re-sign its own free agents using the Bird exception?
