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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
I don’t think the issue is that the players don’t understand how escrow works. I think the players just want to be paid what their contract states. I understand that the league wants their guaranteed 50% of HRR but I can also see why the players don’t feel as though it’s fair to have a percentage of their salaries being withheld because, as you said, the teams are spending too much money. The players have no control over how much a team decides to spend on salary above the cap midpoint, yet the players are the ones who are being forced to assume the financial risks associated with those decisions even if they play for a team that spends below the midpoint.
It also shouldn’t be difficult for anyone to understand why the players want to be paid what their contracts state. How many people do you know who have a portion of their salary withheld to safeguard their employer from their own potentially poor decisions? My guess is probably not very many.
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They are paid exactly what their contracts state - the value relative to a 50/50 share of HRR.