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Originally Posted by patteeu
The salary cap helps to limit the amount that other position salaries can escalate on the basis of a highly paid kicker or guard.
The benefit of the franchise tag, in addition to the obvious benefit of helping a team hang on to it's most important potential free agent each off season (if they so choose) is that it prevents superstar salaries from skyrocketing and eating up even more of the salary cap than they already do to the detriment of all the non-superstar players in the league. The only players hurt by the franchise tag are the guys that get tagged. All the other players benefit indirectly (even though it doesn't seem like most of them realize that).
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Doesn't the NBA have a system where one of your guys can be resigned at it doesn't effect the cap at all? The Larry Bird rule or something like that?