Long-Term Injuries, Illnesses, or Conditions. Any player who suffers a career-ending injury, illness, or condition, and whose contract is terminated by the Team in accordance with the WNBA waiver procedure, will be excluded from her Team’s Team Salary as follows:
Long-Term Injuries, Illnesses, or Conditions. Any player who suffers a career-ending injury, illness, or condition, and whose contract is terminated by the Team in accordance with the WNBA waiver procedure, will be excluded from her Team’s Team Salary as follows: If the injury, illness, or condition occurs on or after January 1, but prior to July 1 of any Season, then, beginning on the second January 1 following the injury, illness, or condition, the Team may apply to the WNBA to have the player’s Salary for each remaining Season of the Contract excluded from Team Salary. (For example, if the career- ending injury, illness, or condition occurs on May 1, 2015, the Team may apply to have the player’s Salary excluded from Team Salary beginning on January 1, 2017.) If the injury, illness, or condition occurs on or after July 1 but prior to the subsequent January 1, then, beginning on the second anniversary of the injury, illness, or condition, the Team may apply to the WNBA to have the player’s Salary for each remaining Season of the Contract excluded from Team Salary. The determination of whether a player has suffered a career-ending injury, illness, or condition, and the determination of the date on which a player’s career-ending injury, illness, or condition occurred, shall be made by a physician selected jointly by the WNBA and the Players Association. Notwithstanding subsections (i) through (iii) above or (viii) below, a player’s Salary shall not be excluded from Team Salary if, after the date on which a career- ending injury, illness, or condition is alleged to have occurred but before her Salary is excluded from Team Salary, the player played in more than five (5) WNBA games in any one (1) Season or in a total of ten (10) games over two (2) Seasons. Notwithstanding subsections (i) through (iii) above or (viii) below, if, after a player’s Salary is excluded from Team Salary in accordance with this Section 2(f), (i) the player plays in five (5) WNBA games in any one (1) Season, the excluded Salary for that Season and any subsequent Season shall thereupon be included in Team Salary; or (ii) the player plays in ten (10) or more WNBA games over two (2) Seasons but did not play in five (5) games in the first of such two (2) Seasons, the excluded Salary for the second Season shall thereupon be included in Team Salary. If, at the time the player’s Salary is required to be included again in Team Salary in accordance with this Section 2(f)(v), the Team does not have Room for some or all of such Salary, t...
