Report: Salary cap to decline between $3 million and $12 million next season
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作者： Kurt Helin
原文与各段翻译：
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.
我们已知道上一季NBA收入少了15亿，也知道下一季只有72场且可能不会满场观众，因此可能收入
又会受到影响。
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.
那这会如何影响薪资帽?没人有答案。维持与上一季相同的109M也有道理，但一切都未知。
旧金山的Chronicle写到一段资讯如下：
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.
联盟内线说薪资帽可能下修3M到12M之间。如果砍10M，那勇士可能要多付出15M的豪华税，
而非180M的阵容(这边我不确定怎么翻才对)。
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.
我们可以假设这个下修是基于疫情前的预测115M，所以可能是100M到112M的范围。
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.
勇士预期下一季会缴豪华税，即使没收入。其他队伍也大受影响。可能不少队伍会透过交
易之类的手段来压在税线下。
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号的选秀会前应该会有更明确的资讯，毕竟不可能没有薪资帽资讯下各队进行
交易与选人。
心得：
这个消息满尴尬的，不变就算了，还可能比原本还低...那些提前续约但尚未开始执行的
合约怎么办啊?是依照新的薪资协议吗?