Exactly. Manipulating the salary cap and finding loop holes is all about circumventing the spirit and intent of it. And yes, it is about trying to create an even playing field. Like, literally that’s what it was for. Cost certainty and ensuring every team had the same budget. If you can go create an all star team with a LTIR loophole it literally is working around the fairness of it. Are we saying everyone can just do this then? Then what’s the point of a cap?
And yes, it is in the league’s best interest to create fairness. Otherwise why not just start the season with the big market teams getting a 40 point advantage when the season starts to ensure they all make playoffs? So yes some things that are unfair slide into the absurdly stupid, like this LTIR nonsense.
Such an easy thing to abuse.
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