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Originally Posted by JackIsBack
Yes.... but it's exactly the same as a regular buyout - the only difference is that it doesn't go against the cap - which is good for every other player by making the pool for players salaries larger. The only players it will effect negatively are those players that a team would not normally buyout unless a compliance buyout was offered - and even then - only those players that didn't sign a new free agency contract that at least made up for that 1/3 difference - so very few.
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More than you suspect I bet. I think players will lose money this go around if there are compliance buyouts. And it won't be made up by new jobs. Mainly because the league has gotten so much younger.