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Originally Posted by eyedentifyme
What DLord missed out on is Dirk and Kidd signing multi-year extensions with their pays in the year 2010-11 being 1 million, and years after that being 10 or more million, so that year they can sign multiple big name free agents and sign their own players.
It's called the money being backloaded in later years..
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Nope, it's called "against the rules." ;-)
The NBA has a limit on raises to prevent exactly this type of cap avoidance. If a player is on a multi-year deal paying him $1M in 2010 to open up cap space, the most he can get on that deal the next year is $1.105M, the following year $1.21M, the following year $1.315M, and so on. And with a new CBA and new salary limits and rules looming in 2011, I suspect each player is going to be in some sort of "show me the money" mode.