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Originally Posted by Flamefan1
I believe you are limited to two buyouts (not sure if that is correct).
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You may be thinking of compliance buyouts, which are finished in any case.
A team can have any number of buyouts, but only three ‘ordinary course buy-outs outside the regular period’ during the term of the CBA. (Article 11.18.) The regular period is roughly from the end of the playoffs to June 30, with a second regular period after a team's last arbitration award or settlement. This, I suppose, is why the media talk as if buyouts were only possible during those two periods. Nobody wants to use up their three ‘outside’ buyouts unnecessarily.