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Rookie pool providing little room for pay increases

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 26, 2003

As some 2003 draft choices and their agents have discovered in painful fashion the past few weeks, it may be harder to squeeze anything more than just modest increases out of this year's "flat" rookie pool allocation than it is to extract blood from a stone. For a second straight spring the rookie pool -- essentially a cap within the salary cap and basically the maximum amount that a team can invest on draft choices and undrafted free agents -- is set at just shy of $119 million. The leavening ...

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