We might have to look a little closer at Acker. Just going off memory but I don't think we can give him a qualifying offer if he signed a one year contract. I believe the assumption is that you own bird rights (early or full).

Restricted free agency is available if a player is NOT a 1st round pick, AND has 3 or less seasons in the "L".

Acker is NON BIRD. 120%.

He also falls under the Gilbert Arenas/Mehmet Okur provision.

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Ok, Ima gonna stick the neck out once more... without looking at Coon's latest... I'm pretty sure that all teams are now allowed to share in the lux tax proceeds (used to be only teams under hard cap).

Perhaps this is clearer. I've made some small tweaks to my description.

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I was curious about how this related to total Revenue and how much Davison is actually making.

According to Forbes. For 2004/05 the Pistons Revenue was listed at $134mil. $45mil of that was ticket sales and after expenses the team neted a $25mil profit. There was a slight increase in ticket sales for 05/06 and they put in more boxes so for 06 I would estimate a 5-10mil increase in Ticket revenue.

Davison has a net worth of $3.5bil. Not exactly Paul Allen money (25bil) but it blows the famed Marc Cuban out of the water with his 1.8bil net worth.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/32/Income_1.html

Here's some fuzzy math.
Say there is 15 teams over the cap a total of $30 mil.
If every team gets $1mil. from that fund. If you were over $1mil. it would be a nul.

It's not so much how much you have to pay if you're over but how much you lose in not receiving the tax distribution.

I was only partially correct with the new CBA, in that part of the escrow may be distributed to all teams instead of the bigger pie (tax penalties)... in the previous year that distribution was close to 18M per team under the tax.... hardly chump change.

well done Micro, we have a lot of people are study CBA in Taiwan and China, we can discuss a lot about this.

Merc, is all that profit? Can that be used next year on players?
18mil. x 30 = total Lux penalty $540mil.
Every team shares even the contributers/penalized?

I have been looking at realgm today and some of my trades have been stopped by this little beauty.

LAST = Last Non-Exercisable Year. Players in the last non-exercisable year of their contract cannot be traded after the trade deadline when teams can once again trade players after their season is over

Can someone explain this please? the wording sucks.