YOU CANT EXCEED THE HARD CAP NO MATTER WHAT!!! GET THAT THROUGH YOUR SKULL. LOL You are going to apologize the second it finally clicks You told me they were not hard capped. I told you they were. Then you try and say they can pay looney any amount since they have bird rights. That would be true , but they are hard capped and cant. They can pay him whatever they want unless it goes over the hard cap and they cant. The tax apron "hard cap" is a brick wall you cant pass no matter what. Before you start talking to everyone like you know something, please study what the apron and hard cap is
They can exceed hard cap yes, but they didn't so they would not be hard capped. Also Looney Bird rights means they could pay him up to the max.
Wrong again. They received a sign and traded player. It hard capped them at 138 million. They cant exceed that amount at any point this season calendar. LEARN THE RULES. They had to trade away iggy to finalize the trade for russell to be under.