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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Except you can't. The players know before they put pen to paper that the dollar value of their contract will be adjusted up or down as necessary to maintain the 50% HRR. Choosing to use selective ignorance does not mean the players have "lost" anything they were not entitled to in the first place.
This is a little too simplistic. The reason why escrow tends to be as high during the season as it is is two-fold: First, the union keeps using the escalator clause that is designed to allow the parties to account for an expected rise in HRR as a salary cap inflator instead. Hard to feel sorry for the players when they shoot themselves in the foot like that. But more importantly, the cap system was designed with the idea that as many teams would be spending above the midpoint as below, and as such, 50% of HRR should be that midpoint. Since the reality is that most teams spend above, the dollar value of the contracts consistently exceeds the players' expected share. If revenues do not come in higher than predicted, that means they give back.
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They can still disagree with it and desire to negotiate it out of the CBA
Also given the fact that the salary cap has risen year over year I don't believe it is a reasonable argument to say using the escalator has been drastically exceeding the expected share of revenue