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Originally Posted by Direckshun
Fair point.
When does he get it, then? I always figured if "dead money" was allocated to a particular year, than that's the year he receives it.
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He already has it.
example
player A signs contract for 5 years, with a signing bonus of 20 million.
That mean he receives 20 million dollars all at once, when the contract is signed. But that 20 million doesn't hit the teams cap all at once, it is prorated over the length of the 5 yr contract. 4 million each year x 5 = 20 million.
say the player gets cut after year 4 of the contract
Now the team still has 4 million leftover in 'dead money' against it's cap for the 5th year of that contract, even though the player is gone.
Dead money is just a term used to talk about salary cap impact