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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I don't understand. If the contract was signed in the summer they still could have massively front ended it like they did.
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They could front load the payments, but the cap hit would be evenly distributed across the contract years. For a contract signed before the season starts, cap hit is just total value of contract / # of years, even for each year. With the late signing, the cap hit for the first year is the AAV ($6.96M) pro-rated to be only for the remaining games in the season (ie. $6.96M spread over 56 remaining games is $124k per game, which would work out to $10.2M over an 82 game season).
So it doesn't really matter how front loaded the contract was to determine this year's cap hit - all that mattered was the AAV and how many games were left.