It says something about the bizarre world of NBA salary-cap management when teams guided by the axiom that every dollar counts so often pay millions of them for absolutely nothing.
Buyouts and the more drastic stretch provision (which, you guessed it, allows teams to stretch the salary of a waived player over many years to ease the short-term cap hit) are commonplace these days. Paying significant cash for a contracted player to just go away is something that happens on almost every team.
And that's a strange thing when we've seen how an extra million dollars of cap space here or there can really matter—just look at how a minimum-salaried Matthew Dellavedova impacted the Cleveland Cavaliers' finals run last year.
This year alone, 10 NBA teams will pay out at least $1 million to players that aren't even on their rosters. In many cases, those players are collecting checks from (and playing for) other clubs. And all that money counts against the cap.
Here are the dead-money spenders this season:
The Dead-Money Specifics
Philadelphia's "Dominance"
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Counting the NBA’s Dead Money
November 20th, 2015 by Grant Hughes Leave a reply »
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