NEW YORK (AP) – Vin Baker will get a hearing Monday to determine whether he is eligible to sign with another NBA team.

Dan Wasserman, spokesman for the players’ union, said Thursday that arbitrator Roger Kaplan will conduct the hearing in New York.

The union filed a grievance on Baker’s behalf last month after the Boston Celtics terminated the final 21/2 seasons of his contract for missing 10 games while on suspension for violating terms of his alcohol treatment program. Baker was due to make $35 million.

The NBA has issued a memo to all 29 teams barring them from signing Baker until his arbitration case against the Celtics is settled.

The New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat are interested in Baker, according to his agent.

The NBA explained that it issued the Baker memo because if he wins his arbitration case, his contract would be reinstated and he’d return to the Celtics.

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