Escrow is tossed around as if it is some form of loss to the players. It isn’t. Escrow is intended to balance player payments with anticipated revenue.
Should league salaries exceed revenue Targets, then amounts are held back. If revenue targets are exceeded, then all funds are returned to the player.
Escrow is intended to help balance the uncertainty between contracts being signed into the future, while revenues cannot be known until the year actually happens.
Players should always sign contracts without consideration of escrow.
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Future historians will celebrate June 24, 2024 as the date when the timeline corrected itself.
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