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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
The conditions of the season weren't met, man! All 31 teams expected this year to go 82 games. It didn't. Therefore, you have to make adjustments to conditions and bonuses that hinge on a certain degree of performance over what was presumably a set amount of time.
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Yup, if this was the only case that had to be dealt with, the league would simply say “conditions not met”, and be done.
But there were a bunch of cases for various things, performance bonuses, trade conditions, etc.
The league had to decide on a standard, and apply that standard to all cases. The standard was set on prorating, and when that was done, this was an easy case. The only remaining question was how to determine what 70/82 of a third round pick was.
The league determined that 70/82 of this years 3rd round pick was giving the option to defer a year.