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Active List - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the list of players,
maintained by the NBA, who have signed Player Contracts with a Team
and are otherwise eligible to participate in a Regular Season game.
Agreement - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means this Collective
Bargaining Agreement entered into as of January 19, 2017.
Audit Report or "final Audit Report" - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
means the audit report prepared in accordance with Article VII, Section
10.
Average Player Salary - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means, with
respect to any Salary Cap Year, Total Salaries (plus any amounts paid by
the NBA for such Salary Cap Year pursuant to Article VII, Section 2(b))
divided by an amount equal to the product of the number of Teams in the
NBA (other than Expansion Teams during their first two (2) Salary Cap
Years) multiplied by 13.2.
Base Compensation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the
component of Compensation other than bonuses of any kind.
,Basketball Related Income" or "BRI" - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
means basketball related income as defined in Article VII, Section 1(a)
and (b).
"Benefits" or "Total Benefits - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the
sum of all amounts paid or to be paid on an accrual basis during any
Salary Cap Year by the NBA or NBA Teams, other than Expansion
Teams during their first two Salary Cap Years, for the specific benefits
set forth in Article IV.
Commissioner - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the Commissioner
of the NBA.
Compensation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the compensation
that is or could be
earned by, or is paid or payable to, an NBA player (including players
whose Player Contracts have been terminated) in accordance with a
Player Contract (whether such payment is sent to the player directly or
to a person or entity designated by a player).
Contract - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ (see "Uniform Player
Contract")
Current Base Compensation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the
component of Base
, Compensation other than Deferred Base Compensation.
Current Compensation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the
component of Compensation other than Deferred Compensation.
Deferred Base Compensation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the
component of Deferred Compensation other than bonuses of any kind.
Deferred Compensation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the
component of Compensation for a Season that is payable to a player
during the period commencing after the May 1 following such Season,
in accordance with the rules set forth in Article VII. The determination
of whether Compensation is Deferred Compensation will be based upon
the time set by the Player Contract for the player to receive the
Compensation, without regard to whether the obligation is funded
currently or secured in any fashion.
Designated Rookie Scale Player - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means a
player with whom a Team has, pursuant to Article II, Section 7(d) and
Article VII, Section 7(b), entered into a Designated Player Rookie Scale
Extension. A Team may at any point in time, in respect of any current or
future Salary Cap Year, have Salary included in its Team Salary in
respect of a maximum of two (2) Designated Rookie Scale Players,
provided that not more than one (1) of such Designated Rookie Scale
Players may have been acquired by the Team by assignment. For
purposes of the preceding sentence, if Salary in respect of a terminated
Designated Rookie Scale Player Extension is stretched for Salary Cap