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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
You've got it backwards I think. If you're paying him 12 million at the beginning, but his cap hit is 7, you've gained a 5M benefit. At the end it's a cap disadvantage
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Maybe that's worded poorly. The clause in question is meant to be so that if a player has been paid less then the total cap hit at the point of retirement, the team doesn't get a "negative" recapture penalty - i.e. a salary cap "bonus."
It goes only one way. If a player signs a contract for 3,7,9,9,9,5,5,1,1,1 - Totalling $50 million over 10 years (numbers aren't legal, but just to show a point), then plays only the first year of the contract, then retires, the team doesn't get the $2 million dollars bonus in Salary Cap, split up over the next 9 years.
That's what the clause is meant to mean.