Fourier
Registered User
I am not sure what you mean here. Someone with a nominal salary of $5M would now have a nominal salary of $4.5M. But the change is primarily symbolic since the actual value in real dollars of the contract remains the same at the time of the roll back.Your one time rollback is for the entire value of a players contract. So I think the PA is more likely to just continue to limit the use of the escalator to slowly bring the escrow down.
Like most have said, when players sign long term deals until they are 38 or whatever and end up on ltir it translates into the team trading that player to a cap floor team and then spending more money on another player.
Limiting the use of the escalator will not bring escrow down any further under the current system because they are already at nearly 0%. They would have to move to a negative escalator to do so.