re: Pelicans to pursue Paul George in 2014?

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I do. It increases the salary for the team who has to match the offer but not for the team who offers it. Add in the fact that they will be luxary tax territory. Not a chance they match.

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It's the same amount of money over the course of the contract. All it does is change the cap hit.

Let's say we were to offer player X a 4 year $40 million contract. With the poison pill, you backload it. So year 1 and 2 you pay $5m and in years 3 and 4 you pay $15m but the caphit never reaches the $15m instead it averages out over the course of the contract.

If the team were to match, they wouldn't get the benefit of that rule.