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Originally Posted by DoubleK
This x2. The cap might go up by $1M a year until 2026-27.
The current players are getting killed by escrow until the debt is paid.
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Not really, escrow is capped going forward. It's 10% next year and 6% the following three years.
The league will be getting repaid the overpayment by keeping the increases to the cap artificially low for the next few years. That makes it tough for the players who need to sign new contracts over the next few seasons because teams won't have the cap space to spare to sign them in the way they were expecting 2 years ago.
The players who signed long-term deals prior to COVID are going to be okay, but the guys whose contracts are expiring in the COVID aftermath are bearing the brunt.