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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
So if you buy a player out, you pay 2/3s of the remaining salary, correct?
Plus, you need a replacement player (who, presumably, is cheaper).
But, the lingering cap hit is money that can't be spent (and otherwise would have been, presumably).
So in the end, what does it really cost a team? (financially)
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Upon rethinking it, its probably cost neutral like you said.
Brouwer's money over two years would have been $9 million.
They pay him $3 million of that over the next two years, and have $6 million in space to spend. $9 million.
It's the same. That's why I'm not an accountant.
