Ten nuggets in the new CBA

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com



Folks around the league have spent the weekend reviewing the new labor deal and its 450-plus pages of complicated math and lawyerly language.

As we brace for the lifting of the moratorium on signings and trades Tuesday, what follows here is the first bundle of fine-print CBA details to blip onto the Stein Line radar.

There will be more nuggets to share once the complete labor document starts to circulate, but here are 10 to pique the interest of amateur capologists everywhere:

1. Call this one the Gary Payton Rule: Players who are traded and then waived by their new team cannot sign back with the team that traded them for 30 days (20 days in the offseason). Payton, you'll recall, was dealt from Boston to Atlanta in the Antoine Walker trade-deadline swap in February, only to rejoin the Celtics three days later. Had this rule been in place last season, Payton still would have been eligible for the playoffs after Atlanta released him March 1, but he would have been forced to wait until March 31 to re-sign with Boston.

2. A trick that attracted even more attention last season -- after Alonzo Mourning and Jim Jackson refused to report to Toronto and New Orleans upon being traded to eventually force their way to title contenders -- will be personally addressed by the commissioner from now on. The new rules empower David Stern to fine or suspend such players, and word is he plans to swing the hammer hard in hopes of dissuading future Zos from holding out after trades. Mourning was able to sign with Miami after the Raptors, who had acquired the veteran center from New Jersey in the Vince Carter trade, bought him out for an estimated $11 million. Had Stern possessed this option last season, Zo likely would have been forced to miss a handful of games through suspension upon joining the Heat.



3. Maximum salaries for next season are $12 million for players with zero-to-six years of service time (such as Michael Redd and Joe Johnson), $14.4 million for players with seven-to-nine years of service time (Ray Allen) and $16.8 million for players with 10 or more years of service time. So Redd's six-year deal to stay put in Milwaukee, based on 10.5 percent annual raises, is worth $90.9 million. Johnson's forthcoming contract in a Phoenix Suns' sign-and-trade with the Atlanta Hawks, based on 8 percent raises because the Hawks set the terms, is worth $69.6 million. And Allen's five-year deal to stay in Seattle, based on 10.5 percent raises, is worth $87.1 million.



4. Despite suggestions to the contrary, the league office will continue to institute a moratorium on signings and trades at the start of every July throughout the next six seasons of labor peace. By year five, though, the moratorium is expected to last no longer than a week.

5. Players with two years or less of big-league service can be sent down to the NBA Development League a maximum of three times per season.

6. Rookie contracts indeed provide only a two-year guarantee for first-round picks, with teams able to invoke two subsequent one-year options if they choose. Rookies, though, do not become unrestricted free agents after four seasons as some expected. If a rookie plays out the original two-year deal and the two option seasons, he would still be a restricted free agent after the fourth year.

7. Offer sheets to restricted free agents like Chicago's Eddy Curry, which formerly had to be at least three seasons long, can now be as short as two years.


8. The so-called Million Dollar Exception is now known as the Bi-Annual Exception, because teams above the cap can use it only every other season. It's now worth $1.672 million for the 2005-06 season and will go up slightly every year. Capped-out teams can still use the mid-level exception (worth an even $5 million in '05-06) every season.

9. NBA teams can now pay $500,000 when buying out a player from his overseas contract, up from $350,000.

10. Along with an increase to four random drug tests per season for all veterans, ramped-up punishments for steroid violations call for a 10-game suspension for the first offense, 25 games for strike two, one full season for strike three and then a lifetime ban for the fourth offense.



大致翻译如下：
新劳资协议有450多页，每页都充斥着复杂的数学及法律用语，下面是10条有意思的条款。

1.加里佩动条款：交易后被裁的球员，30天内（季后赛20天）不得与原队重新签约。大家知道，上赛季Boston于Atlanta在2月的沃克交易中，佩动被Atlanta裁后3天既与Boston重新签约。如果此条款上赛季已实施，那么佩动在3月1日被Atlanta裁后，他依然可以打季后赛。不过他不得不等到3月31日才能与Boston重新签约。

2.对于被交易后拒绝到新球队报到的球员（像上赛季火箭的Jim Jackson和网队莫宁），新CBA赋予大卫斯特恩对该球员罚款或停赛的权力。据传斯特恩将施以重典。如果他上赛季已拥有此权力，莫宁在加入热队后，很可能被停赛多场。

3.下赛季最大薪金：0-6年球龄球员，1千2百万；7-9年，1千4百40万；9年以上，1千6百80万。所以里德与鹿队年涨幅10.5%的6年的合约总价值为9千90万；阿伦与西雅图年涨幅10.5%的5年的合约总价值为8千7百10万；小JJ在太阳与鹰先签后换的合约总价值为6千9百60万，鹰队设定的年涨幅为8%。

4.尽管球队建议取消，但是新劳资协议期联盟继续实施每年7月的签约等待期（？）。（请教达人该词的正确译法，签约等待期指每年7月开始，球队可以与球员接触，但不得签合同）。6年新劳资协议期的第五年，签约等待期将不超过7天。

5.球队可以将2年及以下球龄的球员1个赛季最多3次送往NBA发展联盟。

6.第一轮新秀确实只有2年保障合约，球队有2次（每次1年期）球队选项。但不像大家预期那样，新秀在4年新秀合约结束后，并没有成为自由球员。新秀在2年保障合约和2次球队选项后，第五年将成为受限制自由球员。

7.对公牛队的库里这样的受限制自由球员，以前的报价合约最短是3年，现在可以是2年。

8.以前的百万特例，现在可以叫间隔百万特例（？）（请教达人该词的正确译法，双百万特例？）。因为超过工资帽的球队只能每2年使用一次该特例。05-06赛季该特例价值为167.2万，以后每年有小幅上涨。超过工资帽的球队依然可以每年使用一次中产特例（05-06赛季该特例价值为5百万）。

9.NBA球队买断海外球队的球员合约可以支付的金额由$350,000.上涨到$500,000。

10.老球员随机药检增加到4次，首次药检不合格者将停赛10场，第二次停赛25场，第三次停赛全赛季，第四次将终生禁赛。
--
FROM 218.17.236.*