Hard cap. A player who hasn't been performing can be cut. No salary cap hit. A team isn't paying for a mistake it made 3 years ago.

Posted by Mac:

Hard cap. A player who hasn't been performing can be cut. No salary cap hit. A team isn't paying for a mistake it made 3 years ago.

Players Union would never go for it and the players would strike if the owners and the Commish tried to impose this.

The problem is that you cannot have a hard cap unless salaries are not guaranteed. No way the players union goes for that, and even the owners are not going to push for total nonguaranteed salaries unless the NBA hits hard times financially. I don't see anything wrong with the current system. The NHL went to a hardcap because they were losing money, which is part of the reason the NFL went to one. The NBA financially has no need for a hard cap. The changes to the luxury tax were intended to help create a psuedo-hardcap without actually imposing one.