Whats this I hear about the Celtics signing their second-rounders with the MLE?
Another potential holdup with the signing of Pruitt and Davis is that the team is determining how much of the MLE it will have left to sign them with. Danny Ainge has made a practice of signing second-rounders with a portion of the MLE. Why? Because the team wants to sign its rookies to three year contracts, and teams can not offer three year deals with either the LLE or the minimum salary exception. Signing a player to a three year deal (usually one year guaranteed with two options) is important for two reasons. First, because it keeps the player on a rookie pay scale for three years, instead of the typical two. Right now, this team needs cheap young talent, as it has three well-paid superstars on the roster. Secondly, signing players to a three year deal means that the team acquires “Bird rights” in that player, meaning that the team can exceed the salary cap to sign that player without having to use the MLE or another exception. This is helpful in holding on to our free agents, in c
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