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Originally Posted by pseudoreality
Way more teams will spend to it then should. That's why teams need taxpayer funder arenas and why we might get another lockout, because teams can't manage a budget that matches their revenue.
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The amount paid to the players is
exactly equal to the midpoint of the salary range multiplied by the number of teams. That's true by definition. Every dollar that the teams go over the midpoint (in aggregate) comes back through escrow. If they set next year's cap at $100 million and every team spent to the cap, it wouldn't make the slightest difference: the players would still be paid 50% of HRR.
That being so, the magnitude of the cap has absolutely zero bearing on publicly funded arenas, lockouts, or financial management in general.