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Old 03-07-2021, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by AlwaysSunnyinIndy View Post
A few additional details about Watt's contract:

Watt will only count $4.9M on the 2021 cap by structuring the contract as a 5 year deal. Arizona added 3 dummy voidable years to the contract to spread out the signing bonus. This will result in a $7.2M dead money charge in 2023.

We will probably see other teams use this same strategy to sign free agents this year.
i don't really care for that kind of cap tomfoolery.
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