http://www.nba.com/media/CBA101_9.12.pdf
特別注意第 14 頁:
M. Certain Player Salary Rules The following are some of the principal rules relating to the calculation of a player’s salary for Cap purposes:
(1) Right of Set-Off. When a team terminates a player contract with remaining guaranteed salary, the team’s liability for such compensation shall be reduced by a portion of the compensation earned by the player from any other professional basketball team or teams during each season covered by the first contract. The reduction in the first team’s liability is calculated for each season as follows:
(a) Calculate the total compensation earned by the player from the subsequent team(s) during the Salary Cap Year.
(b) Subtract from the result in Step a (i) if the player had zero years of service at the time the first contract was terminated, the Miimum Salary applicable to such player for the season in which the first contract was terminated, or (ii) if the player had one or more years of service at the time the first contract was terminated, the minimum salary applicable to a player with one year of service for the season in which the first contract was terminated.
(c) If the result in Step b is a negative amount, there is no reduction in the first team’s liability. If the result in Step b is a positive amount, the reduction in the first team’s liability for the relevant season shall equal 50% of such amount.
Example: Assume Player A is a second-year player and is waived by Team Z during the 2012-13 season with two guaranteed years remaining on his contract and then signs a contract with Team Y after clearing waivers. Assume also that Player A was owed from Team Z $10 million for the first of the remaining years and $11 million for the second and signed a two-year deal with Team Y for $3 million for year one and $3.135 million for year two. The setoff for each year would be calculated as below: Set-off = (New Salary – Applicable Minimum Salary) x 50% Year One – ($3 million - $762,195) x 50% = $1,118,902.50 Year Two – ($3.135 million - $762,195) x 50% = $1,186,402.50
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簡單的講, claim waiver 有 2 種情形, 球隊有足夠的 Capspace 或 TE/DPE (或是 Minimum-Player), 但是如該球員在 48 小時內無球隊承接, 則該球員會成為 FA, 但是複雜的是 set-off right 的計算
Team Salary != Cap Hit (舉例: Lakers 去年在 Team Salary 中包含 Lin 的薪資是 15m, 但是 Cap Hit 大約是 $8.4m), 重點是: 球員在有 claim weaver 的情況下會少付錢 (Josh Smith 去年的 Cap Hit 是完全依他在活塞剩餘合約, stretch provision 也是依照這個), 但是 Cap Hit 維持不變
Section 4.
Determination of Team Salary.
(a)
Computation.
For purposes of computing Team Salary underthis Agreement, all of the following amounts shall be included:
(i)
Salaries paid or to be paid to players whose Player Contractshave been terminated pursuant to the NBA’s waiverprocedure (without regard to any revised payment schedulethat might be provided for in the terminated PlayerContracts), except that, with respect to any Player Contractentered into or extended after the date of this Agreementthat has been terminated pursuant to the NBA’s waiverprocedure, if the waiving Team elects in writing to have theplayer’s Salary stretched in accordance with Section 7(d)(5)below, then the amount to be included in Team Salary for aSalary Cap Year in respect of the terminated Player Contractshall equal the “Stretched Salary Amounts” as calculated inaccordance with Section 7(d)(5) below.
CBA 的相關條文會引起誤解的地方就在於 Right Of Set-Off 這部份, 還需要一些篇幅說明
Bjork本人就是音樂!