Godaddycurse wrote:Indeed wrote:Godaddycurse wrote:
cap holds matters when it comes to which exception you can use in the offseason as well.
Which exception you are referring to that based on cap holds instead of the actual salary?
Non tax MLE. Not very common but It may sometimes be beneficial to operate above cap via capholds.
For example:
Team is 20M under the cap, has a player with a sizable cap hold >20M but whose market value is a bit less. Can use the non tax mle first, then sign the player to a smaller deal than 20M. If they sign the player first then they only have access to room exception
we are getting into cba semantics, technically MLE/BAE counts as a cap holds as well. in your scenario it doesnt matter what they did first.
but coming back to the gist of it, cap hold only matter if you are planning to use cap space. otherwise its meaningless.