Under a previous agreement that the two sides came to this summer, there had been a 50-game limit. According to ESPN's Bobby Marks, each replacement player the Nets needed to sign, if his salary counted toward the luxury tax, would cost them roughly $500,000.Īs part of the agreement, the NBA and the NBPA will scrap the limit on the number of games a two-way player is allowed to be on a team's active roster. The Nets had Sunday's game against the Denver Nuggets - as well as this Tuesday's contest versus the Washington Wizards - postponed. That is a significant difference for a team like the Brooklyn Nets, who are among the squads currently dealing with a significant COVID-19 outbreak. The memo also states that any time a team is required to sign a player, that player must be available by the start of the team's first game after the allowance to sign a replacement player is granted by the NBA.Īny replacement players who are signed also won't count toward a team's yearly salary and won't add to its potential luxury tax payment. Meanwhile, teams will have to sign at least one replacement player if they have two positive COVID-19 cases at least two if they have three positive COVID-19 cases and at least three if they have four or more positive COVID-19 cases. So, if a team has five positive cases of COVID-19, for example, it could sign five replacement players. Under the agreement, a team will be allowed to sign a replacement player for each positive COVID-19 case that crops up across its roster. 19 - at which time the league will give teams further guidance on how things will proceed from there. The amended rules, which were outlined in the memo, went into effect Sunday night, and they will remain in place until Jan. The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association came to an agreement Sunday night on rules allowing additional replacement players for teams dealing with players entering the league's health and safety protocols, according to a memo obtained by ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. NBA, NBPA agree to allow teams short-handed by COVID-19 to sign replacement players, memo says
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