allan houston rule FAQ
Noticed this in Mark Stein's rundown of the Allan Houston rule:
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A: Any player who appears on a team's 2005-06 payroll list is eligible -- except those acquired after June 21.
That includes players who are no longer with a team but whose salary still appears on the payroll. One prominent example is Alonzo Mourning, whose contract was bought out by Toronto for an estimated $11 million in March. Mourning has since signed with the Miami Heat, but the Raptors can still make Mourning their amnesty player to avoid paying the luxury tax on what they still owe him.
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That means we could do this for Buckner. I don't think McKie's going anywhere, then.
jemagee Registered User
Posts: 354
(8/2/05 1:50 pm)
Re: allan houston rule FAQ
There's another rule mentioned in this article the "GARY PAYTON" rule it's called so as to avoid the farce of what the Celtics did last season. If you trade a player, who is then waived by the team he was traded to, you can't re-sign him for 30 days.
Personally, I would have made it the rest of the season, but 30 days is better than nothing.
Re: allan houston rule FAQ
Well, 30 days from the February trade deadline forces you to miss the playoff eligibility period, so if you are waived and go back for less money, you cannot play in the playoffs...
So if Payton still wanted to go to Boston, he would not be eligible to play in the playoffs last year.
Theo
jemagee Registered User
Posts: 356
(8/2/05 2:20 pm)
Re: allan houston rule FAQ
sorry, what i was quoting was from a different article, not the same one, here's what stein said
Quote: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.
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