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Are there any possible ways to use the cap jump to your advantage by front loading or even possibly reverse structured contracts?

For example is there a way to sign a guy to an 80 million dollar deal to a contract that gives him 40 the first year and then and average of 40 over the next 3 years?

To me it seems some teams smart route would be to save more cap space in the future by having players with declining contracts.

No, y2y raise or decrease is limited to 4.5% of yr 1 amount.