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Originally Posted by InternationalVillager
The point I'm trying to convey is that the player mindsets have changed a lot in the last 10 years. You will see more and more players leaving their original teams that drafted them. Of course this favours the large market teams. However, in the past this wasn't as big of an issue due to cap constraints except now more and more players will choose to sign discounts with those large market teams and then those large market teams will also benefit through this "double retention" trade strategy because star players on expiring (RFA/UFA) contracts mostly have NTC/NMC will pick and choose their teams.
No player is taking a discount to stay with a small market team.
No player is choosing a small market team at the deadline if they have NMC/NTC.
The salary cap structure is starting to fail in front of our eyes and over time- there will be complaints from the owners amongst each other. The whole reason salary cap was implemented was to level the playing field in the first place.
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Nah the level playing field crap was just bull#### they fed fans so they would come back and watch the games after the lockout.
Salary Cap is purely financial
I guess there are some things we could look at. We could ban third party salary retention, or ban salary retention altogether. I think salary retention helps sellers and buyers but hurts the teams in-between. The tiebreaker may be that getting rid of salary retention would make the trade deadline much more boring.