Salary cap: A salary cap is a maximum dollar amount teams can spend on player contracts. A salary cap is necessary to maintain competitive balance in the league.
Salary cap - an annual dollar limit that a single team may pay all its players.
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Salary Cap
Common term for Maximum Team Salary, the maximum amount each team may pay in salaries during an NBA season, as per teams of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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Salary Cap -- The limit on the amount of the total money a team can pay its players. In the NBA, teams are allowed to exceed the cap in order to retain established “Franchise Players.
A "hard cap" is a salary cap that cannot be exceeded for any reason.
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The team is far enough under the salary cap to fit the player's entire salary.
The team has a disabled player exception for at least the player's salary (see question number 17 ).
The salary cap is intended to even things out but is easily worked around and the top-flight league is in danger of becoming a branch of show biz, with half a dozen super-clubs sharing a pay-to-view TV pot. Time will tell...
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