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Originally Posted by Ped
IIRC, the salary in the lowest year can't be more than 50 percent of the salary in the highest year.
Teams get around this by offering huge signing bonuses that take up most of the cap.
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That's not why they offer huge signing bonuses. The rule you mentioned counts signing bonuses as part of the salary.
Big signing bonuses are there chiefly to protect against buyouts. If a player is bought out, his signing bonus is still paid in full, whereas he receives only 2/3 or 1/3 of his base salary (depending on age).