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Players love 'dead money' because it's really double-dipping, they are getting paid by 2 teams for the same season. Some players seem to do it on purpose.
Player A gets a new contract ... insists on big signing bonus
Player A then starts being such a complete prick that team doesn't want him anymore. He still performs on the field to keep his market value up but causes such problems behind the scenes that he gets cut
Player A then moves on to another team, with another signing bonus, gets paid again
10 million signing bonus from the 1st team even though he never finish the contract
10 million signing bonus from the 2nd team
Terrell Owens did such a masterful job of it that the league started writing stuff into the contracts to try and stop it.
The last CBA even has a clause in it about double dipping iirc.
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Last edited by Mr. Laz; 03-28-2014 at 11:14 PM..
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