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					Originally Posted by kyuss275  It only brought the "collective amount committed to player salaries down" for one year. Next year it will be at $70 million +. So again why did they have a lockout? | 
	
 
To cut the players' percentage of revenues. Before the lockout it was 57 percent. Now it's 50 percent. If the cap next year is $70 million, it would have been $80 million under the old CBA.
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