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I don't want to support this, but if you're an owner, you're like, wait, I can save a lot of money and fuel the competitive product in an era right now where we're talking about huge cap growth.

And is there going to be internal caps amongst the teams?

That's what we've talked about.

Hey, that could be a competitive edge for you, being willing to spend the cap when other teams are not going to be doing that.

Suddenly, you just got a blueprint of, wait, I can be $12 million below the cap and I can...

Now, I wonder if the byproduct of that is the next round of negotiations is, okay, well, how do we curtail spending then?

Right?

Like, if we're living the reality of like, hey, we don't need to spend to this money.

Why are we doing this?

Do we need to shorten contracts?

Do we need to get down to five, six year lengths?

Which I don't think is a bad thing for the players either.

Yeah, especially with how the cap, you see what happens in the NBA.

You make more money going short term.

Yeah, you want maximum security.

I totally appreciate that.

And stability, you know, lifestyle reasons.

You want to stay in a certain city.

Everyone's trying to move to Vegas.

But there's the element of like, hey, renewing your contracts.