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From: samuels@h-sc1.UUCP (ronald samuels)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: Patrick Ewing
Message-ID: <383@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 14:08:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 14:08:35 1985
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> >
> >I can only hope and pray that New York will be so constrained
> >by the salary cap that they will have to dilute some of their 
> >talent in order to sign Patrick.
> >
> 
> If the salary cap is such a restriciton, how come the Lakers
> and Celtics never seem restricted by it. I'm not being 
> sarcastic, I really never did understand how a salary cap
> could be imposed with teams such as this. Does anyone have
> actual salary data available?
> 
> roy

They ARE restricted by it.  Unfortunately don't have the data on me,
but simply put there is a limit to how much a team can be paying in
salary each year (probably more complicated by differed payments and
such).  What may be of interest to people, is that I was recently reading
that the Knicks have about 2 million dollars to fool around with next year
(I think it was something like someone who hasn't played finally had his
contract run out), so they have plenty of money even for Ewing.
-- 

Ron Samuels
Harvard University Science Center

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