One transaction deadline for off-season transactions: date to be announced 10:00 AM PT.

If you are late, you will protect one less player. No exceptions or excuses.

We are protecting 1 player this year. We will probably increase that to 2 for next year.

You must leave your protected players as well as all your trades by this deadline.

Once you email in your transactions and protected players you may not change any part of them. Your protection players can be any combination of your current roster and players obtained in trades. However, you MUST protect all players obtained in trades.

No money or players to be named later will be allowed.

You may trade your first round draft pick for player(s). Only your first round. There is a limit to how many draft picks you can have in the first round, >>>2 (two); at least for the first year to see how things go.

When you trade your draft pick for a player you can protect one extra player (that would be a total of 2 protected players). If when I tabulate all transactions, you have exchanged draft picks with a team, (even in separate deals) the draft picks cancel out and you do not protect an extra player.

Trades must be fair. I will veto any trades deemed unfair or not in the best interest of the league. Remember when trading that the team that gets the better player, almost always (I think always in basketball) gets the better of the deal. Think about what the trade does for the other team. Maybe it is not a good idea to trade that player to that team.

That last place team will draft first and the league champion last in every round.

You cannot protect a player who has never been on an NBA roster (active or inactive)....”The rookie rule".

Because basketball is truly different then the other 3 sports that we have protection leagues, there are some more funky little rules that we must start with:

The following players cannot end up on the same team because of these off-season trades:

Dwayne Wade

Tim Duncan

Chris Paul

Al Jefferson

LeBron James

Dirk Nowitzki

Kobe Bryant

Dwight Howard

Draft day is Saturday, October 24, 2009 @ 2:00 PM Pacific Time