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Post by Ducky on Nov 28, 2004 15:31:45 GMT -5
NHLPA out to lunch on NBA cap
By STEVE SIMMONS, sun
The soft NBA-style salary cap that the NHL Players' Association has convinced its sheep-like membership it must fight against, pays the average basketball player just over $4 million a year. And only a handful of 30 NBA teams spend at or below the cap figure of almost $44 million, In fact, half of the teams in the NBA, including the Raptors, spend at least $10 million more than this year's cap figure and some are over the cap by more than $50 million.
Now, explain in 50 words or less, exactly what the NHLPA is fighting against or in the words of vice-president Bill Guerin, why "every player in the NBA hates the cap."
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Myself I see a soft cap taking place in the NHL, hopefully they adopt players beeing with the club for 5 continuous yrs will be exempt from the cap that way it encourages a team building concept.
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