[STATnMeloParticipant]

I have an idea for a new contract system tell me what y’all think

1. Unrestricted Free Agents- The maximum amount of years for a contract is 4 and the minimum is of course 1. This allows teams to not throw out 6 year deals and end up with players like Eddy Curry, Gilbert Arenas or Rashard Lewis. 4 years is good enough for long term stability but not ruining your franchise for years to come with a bad move. The player option is still available, as well as the team option. Now the contract value can MAX out at 4yrs/85mil BUT they amount per year will have a "cap hold" and a guaranteed amount on the contract ala Football. In the last year of the deal teams and players can negotiate an extension.

Ex. a player signs 4yr/85mil with 50mil guaranteed and 35mil in incentives. The 50mil would be divided by 4 and that would be the cap hold so 12.5M would go against the cap room.

2. Restricted Free Agents- Once again the max amount of years is 4 and the MAX amount of money is 60mil. These contracts are for those just ending their rookie deals. This contract has "cap holds" and guaranteed money also.

Ex. a players sign for 4yrs/35mil with 20mil guaranteed and 15mil in incentives. The 20mil would be divided by 4 and the cap hold would be 5mil that would go against the cap

3. Rookie Contracts- Rookie contracts should be the same but with 3rd year team options and 4th year player options. 1st 2 years are guaranteed, the 3rd year the team decides if your worth keeping and the 4th year the player decides if he wants to opt out and test the market.

Other things of interest.

Restricted Free Agents should be able to be tendered like if Chicago signs Courtney Lee(RFA) from Houston, then Houston gets a 1st round or 2nd round pick. BUT teams can only 1st round tender 1 player each year but only for 2 consecutive years.

This helps small market teams who lose talented players because they can tender guys with 1st round picks making some teams unsure if they wanna sign a guy. Small market teams hold onto key guys or they get more draft picks to continue to build their team.

Salary Cap- should be set at good mark to help teams add talent but not allow teams to exceed meaning a hard cap is in place. 59mil should be enough to build a winner and the hard cap should be 75mil.

Bird Vets are still intact

Vets Minimum= 2mil- 8yrs or more of NBA experience

Minimum $750,000

Mid Level Exception stays

Franchise Tag- you can franchise a player on your team for 1 year against the cap but you would have to pay the player the average of every guys on your team. So if your salary cap is 65mil and you have 14 guys you franchise tag would be $4.64M.

Questions, Comments, Concerns

[the I in winParticipant]

I don’t like the Franchise tag, couldn’t you in theory place that tag on a player that deserves a lot of money and he only get that 4.64 million?  Instead of resigning Joe Johnson last year (for example) to that bloated contract they could have franchised him and given him a fraction of what he was able to get.

[TyroberParticipant]

 The franchise tag would allow him to make an average of the top 5 players or something at his position…I believe

[STATnMeloParticipant]

In football but I mean a tag to retain a player say he has 2 bird years with you so you cant go over the cap to re-sign him you franchise him pay him the average of your team salary getting 3 bird years to go over the cap like a transitional tag

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