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Originally Posted by kane
Actually he can get more money staying in Cleveland than if he goes anywhere else.
The NBA's collective bargaining agreement states that there is a max contract you can offer a player. If a player has less than 6 years then the most they can pay him is 25% of the total salary cap or around 13 million per year. This is the most any team can offer so no matter where he would go he would get the same money. There is what they call the Larry Bird Exception. This is a clause in the CBA that allows teams to exceed the max contract numbers to resign their own players. So the Cavs could offer him more money (I read as much as 30 million over the life of the contract) than any other team.
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yeah you're right. Bird rights. Same shit is going on in Atlanta with Joe Johnson.
but i don't think Lebron is going to stick around for more money, when all he has to do is get a few more endorsements to cover the slack. who the fuck knows tho, I'm sure he's going to string this out so he can get as much attention as he possibly can.