Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
The only beardless picture of Rashard Lewis I could find. It's a part of him now. "Creative financing." A fun term, one that's actually employed by financiers and accountants, yet one brought into the world of the NBA when it was used, once , in a pre-emptive justification…
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Last year, I wrote a couple of posts under the heading of "Creative Financing in the NBA." Inspired by seeing a series of quirky salary techniques that I had not previously seen in my three long and sexless years of compiling NBA salary information, I was inspired to…
The NBA's luxury tax first came into existence in 2001, the year in which the league's new escrow system debuted. The escrow system, in layman's terms, is a system that withholds a certain amount of player's salaries and puts it into a separate account until the end of…