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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
How would they lose income? The way the buyout system works now costs them millions - correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s 66% of the value remaining, spread out over double the length of term.
If we owe James Neal $20M, we should be able to cut James Neal a cheque for $20M and be done with him, carrying his full $5.75m cap hit for one year following the buyout.
That makes sense to me.
What doesn’t make sense is Paying Neal $13M over 8 years and carrying $2M in dead money for two full presidential terms.
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This basically kills the point of the cap.
Say you wanted a guy for 25 million over 5 years. Well why not just sign him for 25 million over 10 years, and buy him out after 5th year!
The player gets the same amount of $$ over the same 5 years, and the cap hit is twice as low for the team!
Basically allows rich teams to spend whatever they want and have under the table buyout agreement with players.
Heck, you want to sign Hall to a prove it 1 year 10 million deal, just make it 10 years for $10 million and buy him out after year 1!