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Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0
I don't really like that, either ... but he did that because the Spurs refuse to pay a luxury tax. The NBA has a SOFT cap, not a hard cap like the NFL. The only thing he did was save his owner money. Brady, in the HARD CAP NFL, is freeing up $10+M per year in contracts they can give to STAR players.
While I 100% think Brady is going to get paid for years and years after he retires from the NFL by the Patriots, even if he ISN'T, and these contracts are truly so he can free up more space so the Pats can have that built in advantage ... it's still bullshit.
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Not exactly, at least according to this article
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Duncan's pay cut opened cap space for San Antonio to sign shooting guard Danny Green, forward Boris Diaw, and point guards Nando De Colo and Patty Mills. Green started every game he played this season, averaging a career high 10.5 points on 43 percent three-point shooting. Diaw averaged 23 minutes a game for the 58-24 team now headed to the finals.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-d...#ixzz3dnyhdmzG
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