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Originally Posted by Jay Random
That is clearly wrong. Acquiring the contract does not give you any additional cap space beyond the space required to pay that contract.
David Pagnotta is wrong. The language of the CBA is quite clear. But journalists are not noted for their understanding of mathematics.
When you acquire a player and put him on LTIR, he counts against your cap, but you are allowed to exceed the cap by the same amount. If you add a $7 million injured player, you pay $7 million against your cap and receive the right to spend $7 million on a replacement. You gain no cap benefit from this. The two numbers cancel out. All it means is that you are out of pocket by the actual cash amount of the injured player's salary.
THERE IS NO BENEFIT.
Why are some people unable to understand this very simple arithmetic?
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It's very simple but mind-bottling at the same time...kinda like seasonal time changes