ShamSports: Creative Financing in the NBA, 2010

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There's little Hawks-related in this epic post outside of a mention of no-trade clause Jason Collins has by virtue of being a player on a one-year contract whose team will have early or full Bird rights on him at the end of the season and the use of Joe Johnson's contract as an example of the opposite of creative financing but it's a must-read for salary cap heads and/or anyone wishing to read the greatest explanation yet of how the Miami Heat got so far below and then so far over the salary cap in the same off-season.

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