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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
The exemption in years is literally based on the player's age when they sign their first contract, so it absolutely should not be ignored. And later in the article of the CBA it states that the first year of exemption is when the player plays their first pro game. Signing as a 20 year old and playing your first pro game as a 20 year old is not the same thing as signing as a 19 year old and playing your first pro game as a 20 year old.
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Signing as a 19 year old doesn't tack on an extra year of exemption for when you turn pro as a 20 year old, otherwise you'd see a lot more 19 year old players signed. A player turning pro at 20 gets 3 years of exemption, no matter when they signed.