Insurance Question

[DefensiveMind]

It's been said that the Pelicans have been given a hard budget to work with, salary cap notwithstanding. But it got me thinking was Eric's contract insured? Most likely it wasn't, given his injury history and the 30 million remaining on his contract, but if it was, then after a waiting period then insurance could potentially pay up to 80% percent of his contract. This would make it a whole lot more palatable to apply for the disabled player (injury exception) which I think we would get, especially if EG opted for surgery. Just throwing this out there. Of course Gordon's salary is still on our books, but in "real dollars & cents" we aren't paying for (all) of it.

[jrue_grit]

I think every NBA team is forced to get insurance for its top 5 paid players. So yeah we would probably get back some of his salary.
I think the tough part is will EG come back at the end of the season? I want that injury exception.

[HornetGuru]

I think every NBA team is forced to get insurance for its top 5 paid players. So yeah we would probably get back some of his salary.
I think the tough part is will EG come back at the end of the season? I want that injury exception.

did we ever figure out how much we would save on him with the injury exemption?

[jrue_grit]

did we ever figure out how much we would save on him with the injury exemption?

I think MM said it would be 5.3 mil if EG was done for the year, since we are over the cap.

[BallSoHard]

I think every NBA team is forced to get insurance for its top 5 paid players. So yeah we would probably get back some of his salary.
I think the tough part is will EG come back at the end of the season? I want that injury exception.

Is this new? Because I'm pretty sure this wasnt in place before the last CBA. See; Stoudemire, Amare

[odine]

Amare was special case, forget why