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Forget the dollars that would be needed and roll with me for a minute...
Are there rules in place to keep an owner, say Cuban, from buying a major company that already has endorsement deals (UnderArmor, Powerade, etc) and using them to circumvent the salary cap? Suppose he calls up Melo, and LeBron and tells em to come to Dallas on cap friendly deals and he would guarantee them 5/$100M endorsement deals (or some number way higher than they could get with another team) that have very little required of them.
Seems that unless someone talks about it, or it is obvious (like Cuban invents a company with zero income but pays a half a billion in endorsements) it could be done. Probably already is, actually.
Are there rules in place to keep an owner, say Cuban, from buying a major company that already has endorsement deals (UnderArmor, Powerade, etc) and using them to circumvent the salary cap? Suppose he calls up Melo, and LeBron and tells em to come to Dallas on cap friendly deals and he would guarantee them 5/$100M endorsement deals (or some number way higher than they could get with another team) that have very little required of them.
Seems that unless someone talks about it, or it is obvious (like Cuban invents a company with zero income but pays a half a billion in endorsements) it could be done. Probably already is, actually.