Ron Burgundy
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The Chicago Bulls requested waivers on Dwyane Wade on Sept. 25.
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That would be quite odd...Wait, I'm confused.
Any CBA junkies here? Does this mean the Bulls could get Wade back?
That would be one hell of a signal to send to the future FAs in the league.
Now, this is going off of how 2k does waivers, but it might be the actual rule...Someone else on another site I frequent was saying the Bulls are using a tactic to force Wade into signing with his new team sooner than later. Apparently this saves the Bulls money and cap space in certain circumstances and costs them nothing to make a request.
Not sure how true, but makes the most sense out of what I could find.
Now, this is going off of how 2k does waivers, but it might be the actual rule...
If a player is signed after the waiver period, the team that waives him still has his salary count against the cap, but if he is claimed off of waivers, then the salary is not counted against the original team's cap.
If that's how it works, then I can definitely see why they'd try. Not sure how successful they'd be though.