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Originally Posted by butterfly
Imagine an 8-year deal that begins at 10% of cap and declines in a linear manner to end at 8% of cap. Foolish fans think it looks great ("The cap is going up!"), when the agent and GM both knew they were negotiating for 9% of cap the entire time.
It's no different than being locked into an 8-year agreement to pay 9% of cap, regardless of what the dollar amount turns out to be, though I don't think explicit agreements like that are allowed by the CBA and thus projection systems need to be employed as proxies to accomplish the same goal.
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Everyone knows this, but it doesn't change the fact that at the end of the term, it is at 8%, which is easier to deal with than 9%, or the 10% that it started at.