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Message: [QUOTE="awfuldan, post: 3164551, member: 7605"] Good explanation! The league introduced it as a way to help small markets keep their superstars. The thinking being that those small market teams would basically be able to make star players an offer they couldn't refuse, money-wise. It has had mixed results though. Has created some real albatross contracts (Wall, and Westbrook to a lesser extent) and a couple players have still turned down the money in favor of free agency (Kawhi, Anthony Davis). Charlotte probably has the toughest decision of any team yet. As much as I love him, I don't think Kemba is worth 221 million on the free market. And Charlotte is a mediocre team that has a lot of bad contracts on the books already. It really seems like it would make more sense for Charlotte (or for both parties, really) to blow it up and try to get some good draft picks and young players. Trading Kemba last year for value would have made a lot of sense. [/QUOTE]