re: Official: Jameer Nelson signs with Pelicans on one-year deal

When the injured players come back, the exception ends. Therefore Nelson would have had to be given a non-guaranteed contract since we have 15 players on our roster.

We wanted him on for the full season so the only way to do that is to clear Crawford who isn't guaranteed but is still taking up a roster spot.

I'm guessing if you use the provision you have to sign a player with a non-guaranteed contract unless you already have an open roster spot (and you wouldn't use the provision if you had an open roster spot).

So we didn't use the exception on Nelson. Now that we have 15 guaranteed contracts we can use the medical hardship exception to sign someone to a non-guaranteed contract


Can we talk Gerald Green into a non-guaranteed contract? Lol