Finestrg wrote:

FrenchKnicks wrote:Close this thread, what was said is not true at all.

Based on what? Fact (give us a link)? Your opinion? What exactly?

Based on Cap knowledge

Unlikely bonuses in any season are limited to 25% of the player's salary in that season. In the first year of a contract the base salary, likely bonuses and unlikely bonuses must all fit within the salary cap or exception. The league also determines a team's available cap room by adding in the unlikely bonuses for all players who signed that season. This prevents a team from signing multiple players to lower salaries but with lots of unlikely bonuses, and therefore committing to more salary than it has cap room to offer.

http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q63

Unlikely bonuses in any season are limited to 25% of the player's salary in that season. In the first year of a contract the base salary, likely bonuses and unlikely bonuses must all fit within the salary cap or exception. The league also determines a team's available cap room by adding in the unlikely bonuses for all players who signed that season. This prevents a team from signing multiple players to lower salaries but with lots of unlikely bonuses, and therefore committing to more salary than it has cap room to offer.

Bonuses can only add an additional 25% of the player's salary. So for a max $16.5M contract, it would be slightly over $4M. Secondly, all unlikely bonuses are added into the cap for all players that signed that season.