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Originally Posted by Bingo
I don't think it is a huge risk for the league, but it's just insanity for a player to give up a season.
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I don't think there is a huge risk to the league either, which is why I can't understand why they'd make it a hill to die on. Get rid of both the escrow and the escalator and the league would remain stable, it's not as if some teams aren't losing money even with the escrow.
Looking at it from the players' perspective, they never liked the escrow from the get go, I'm sure they could understand it being there as a safety net when the cap was first introduced, but they tried(unsuccessfully) to get rid of it by holding out for almost half a season so if it is that important to the players they really have no other options if the league won't budge on it. I get the arguments that they get the escrow back but no one here would want to have a chunk of their salary payment differed by a year either, and the whole "they make way more than I do so it shouldn't matter" is a relatively moot point, everyone makes more or less than someone else but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who likes having their money withheld from them.