Offline Association contract help

[Jsan915]

What is the differenence between a these options.

Type: front, 10% back, 5% back, base

Option: team, player

No trade:

What are bird years

Can you plz explain thnx. If i missed anything, then can you just let me know and explain what it means.

I play alot of madden, so does a front mean a front loaded contract like madden or is it different.

[waytofailself]

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What is the differenence between a these options. Type: front, 10% back, 5% back, base Different ways money is distributed over a contract. Front loaded, 10% increase over year, 5% increase over years, same every year. Option: team, player Team = the team can decide whether to accept this year of a contract Player = the player can decide whether to accept this year of a contract No trade: Player cannot be traded What are bird years (i might be wrong on this one) After playing for the same team for (i think) 3 consecutive years, that team can go over the salary cap and/or us the midlevel exception to resign a player.

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[Jsan915]

Quote: Originally Posted by waytofailself

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Thnx for the help but I thought bird years was when a player been in the league for over three years. Idk.

[RBelly_502]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jsan915

Thnx for the help but I thought bird years was when a player been in the league for over three years. Idk.

Perhaps the most well-known of the NBA's salary cap exceptions, it is so named because the Boston Celtics were the first team permitted to exceed the salary cap to re-sign one of their own players (in that case, Larry Bird). Free agents who qualify for this exception are called "qualifying veteran free agents" or "Bird Free Agents" in the CBA, and this exception falls under the auspices of the Veteran Free Agent exception. In essence, the Larry Bird exception allows teams to exceed the salary cap to re-sign their own free agents, at an amount up to the maximum salary. To qualify as a Bird free agent, a player must have played three seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent. This means a player can obtain "Bird rights" by playing under three one-year contracts, a single contract of at least three years, or any combination thereof. It also means that when a player is traded, his Bird rights are traded with him, and his new team can use the Bird exception to re-sign him. Under the 2011 CBA, Bird-exception contracts can be up to five years in length, down from six under the 2005 CBA.^[6]

[Jsan915]

Quote: Originally Posted by RBelly_502

Perhaps the most well-known of the NBA's salary cap exceptions, it is so named because the Boston Celtics were the first team permitted to exceed the salary cap to re-sign one of their own players (in that case, Larry Bird). Free agents who qualify for this exception are called "qualifying veteran free agents" or "Bird Free Agents" in the CBA, and this exception falls under the auspices of the Veteran Free Agent exception. In essence, the Larry Bird exception allows teams to exceed the salary cap to re-sign their own free agents, at an amount up to the maximum salary. To qualify as a Bird free agent, a player must have played three seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent. This means a player can obtain "Bird rights" by playing under three one-year contracts, a single contract of at least three years, or any combination thereof. It also means that when a player is traded, his Bird rights are traded with him, and his new team can use the Bird exception to re-sign him. Under the 2011 CBA, Bird-exception contracts can be up to five years in length, down from six under the 2005 CBA.[6]

Makes a lot of sense now thnx