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Salary Cap Nuggets - No. 3: Shouldn’t teams in the playoffs have unfair salary cap issues? Salary Cap Charges vs. Player Benefit Charges

There’s a question that has bothered me for years, and to which I’ve never known the answer.

How do playoff teams handle the salary cap?

What I mean is, they have to keep playing after the regular season ends.

  • Do they get a salary cap credit?
  • Is there some other mechanism... some special dispensation that is used to allow them to keep paying their players?

Well, while reading the book Crunching Numbers this past week, I found information that answered that question.