No - I don't have any idea. And I admitted as much in my first post. To reiterate for the reading impaired, I do not know much about the business side of basketball. I prefer those elements that pertain to the game. So obviously there is a component in place that allows teams over the cap to resign their existing stars, while remaining millions over the cap, that is different than if they signed a new player for the same amount of money.
Yes this is an extremely important concept to get, and it is baffling to everyone here that you would make assumptions about the business without understanding the basics of how the system works. If you are over the cap, you cannot sign a new player not currently on your team unless it meets one of the following exception criteria listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap Maybe you should stop calling everyone else reading impaired and read the above very carefully.
Been saying that for weeks now when you get the countless "he's going to leave and they'll be left with nothing!" posts. Your free capspace to spend on the players you want who at that point are willing and wanting to play there > roll players and players who don't want to be there and who the team would rather not be paying. It's something the very tiny minority seem to agree with for some reason.
But what if a team is still way over the cap even if it lets the max salary superstar go? You can't offer that max salary to a free agent. So the team is truly left with nothing.
