Report: Salary cap to decline between $3 million and $12 million next season
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作者： Kurt Helin
原文與各段翻譯：
We know that the NBA fell short of revenue projections for last season by
$1.5 billion. We know that the compressed 72-game season proposed to start in
December will not have fans in all the buildings for all of it, leading to
another down revenue season.
我們已知道上一季NBA收入少了15億，也知道下一季只有72場且可能不會滿場觀眾，因此可能收入
又會受到影響。
Where does that leave the salary cap? Nobody has an answer. While there is a
sense the cap will remain flat with last season at around $109 million,
nothing is certain. Teams are running a wide range of scenarios, something
Connor Letourneau of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about.
那這會如何影響薪資帽?沒人有答案。維持與上一季相同的109M也有道理，但一切都未知。
舊金山的Chronicle寫到一段資訊如下：
League sources have put the decline in the cap at anywhere between $3 million
and $12 million. If the cap dropped $10 million, the Warriors could have to
pay $15 million more in taxes than on an entire roster expected to be in the
$180 million range.
聯盟內線說薪資帽可能下修3M到12M之間。如果砍10M，那勇士可能要多付出15M的豪華稅，
而非180M的陣容(這邊我不確定怎麼翻才對)。
We can assume that drop is off the pre-COVID-19 salary cap projections of
around $115 million (the target teams had been planning for), which means a
range of $100 million to $112 million. That’s a huge difference. The salary
cap is also what the luxury tax line (and the salary floor) is based on.
我們可以假設這個下修是基於疫情前的預測115M，所以可能是100M到112M的範圍。
The Warriors expected to be paying the luxury tax next season — although no
revenue coming in Chase Center makes that sting a little more for ownership
— but for other teams where the cap lands could be the difference between
being in the tax and out of it. Expect to see a few teams make some
cash-saving trades or other moves to get them below the tax line if they are
just over it.
勇士預期下一季會繳豪華稅，即使沒收入。其他隊伍也大受影響。可能不少隊伍會透過交
易之類的手段來壓在稅線下。
There should be a good idea of the salary cap number in the coming weeks
before the Nov. 18 2020 NBA Draft. It would be impossible for teams to make
trades on draft night without direction on the salary cap number. Whatever
that number will be, it will have a few teams scrambling.
十一月18號的選秀會前應該會有更明確的資訊，畢竟不可能沒有薪資帽資訊下各隊進行
交易與選人。
心得：
這個消息滿尷尬的，不變就算了，還可能比原本還低...那些提前續約但尚未開始執行的
合約怎麼辦啊?是依照新的薪資協議嗎?