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Originally Posted by Pointman
There's common misunderstanding about how cap works, because the word "cap" is misleading. People naturally think of a cap as, well, cap - but it works more like a chest with money. At the beginning of a season each franchise is given a chest with the same amount of money. During the season teams pay their players with this money. As long, as money remaining in the chest is enough to pay players for the rest of the season, team is under a cap. Once the season is over, there's no more salary to pay to the players. Hence no matter who you have on the roster, you are "under the cap" (or rather have enough money in the chest to pay them).
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Which, as I've said before, is precisely the problem. As soon as you hit the playoffs you are dividing by zero and the cap becomes meaningless – even though the CBA states that it technically still applies.
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