Clippers Tom Rivers doesn"t feel there is a gap between Warriors and Clips

**Chinook** · 09-28-2016

But do they need to clear space for Durant? With the cap falling to $102 million it's a very small difference between what they can offer as a 35% of the cap max salary vs what they could using the Non Bird exception, it's like $1.75 million on the base salary and eithe way he's at 4.5% non-compounded raises. It seems like he could sign another 1+1 with the non Bird exception and then get 7.5% raises signing as Early Bird next summer, just like LeBron in Cleveland. I don't recall the Cavs ever dumping salary in the summer of 2015 to re-sign LeBron to that second year. Or am I wrong there? I mean they were massively over the cap in 2015-16.

That's all assuming the owners don't write something into the rules to prevent that. Personally, I had no idea the non-Bird exception was that robust (as you might've known if you happened to be on before I deleted my initial reply last night). I think that's a huge hole the league could close this summer. Could also see the raising the cap holds of players like Curry to close the loophole that Warriors are trying to expose even more. If you had both Steph and KD at like $35 Million with Klay and Draymond, the youngsters and cap holds, they'd be completely capped out.

**Fabbs** · 09-28-2016

Originally Posted by Spurtacular

Didn't, not couldn't TBH.

Thank you.

Originally Posted by DMC

Same thing.

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**baseline bum** · 09-28-2016

Originally Posted by Chinook

That's all assuming the owners don't write something into the rules to prevent that. Personally, I had no idea the non-Bird exception was that robust (as you might've known if you happened to be on before I deleted my initial reply last night). I think that's a huge hole the league could close this summer. Could also see the raising the cap holds of players like Curry to close the loophole that Warriors are trying to expose even more. If you had both Steph and KD at like $35 Million with Klay and Draymond, the youngsters and cap holds, they'd be completely capped out.

Yeah I was pretty surprised the Non Bird Exception was so good also until seeing it on Larry Coon's page last night. Looks like GSW did a solid for themselves in negotiating that into the CBA after they lost Arenas when there was nothing like that in the pre-2005 CBA.