| | NEW YORK -- The WNBA on Tuesday announced new rules,
effective immediately, designed to allow teams greater
flexibility in making trades.
Teams will be permitted to make so-called unbalanced trades,
provided the number of players on one side of the transaction
does not exceed the number of players on the other side by more
than one.
Also, selections for the 2000 draft can be traded, as long as
the team trading them retains at least two picks.
Contingent trades between existing teams and the 2000 expansion
teams -- Indiana, Seattle, Miami and Portland -- will be
permitted until Dec. 14 at 5 p.m. ET. The draft is April
25.
The changes were recommended by the WNBA competition committee
at the league's annual meetings in New York earlier this month
and approved by the WNBA operating committee.
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