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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4306874, member: 1131"] The bolded statement above is broadly true, but may have a misleading implication. Some franchises (e.g., the Connecticut Sun) plan to have an 11-player roster, not because they can't financially afford a 12th player, but because they can't fit a 12th player into the league-wide salary cap. The salary cap exists so that "rich" franchises such as the Sun can't gain a competitive advantage by buying good players and incurring a larger payroll than other "poor" teams could not afford. There is a similar practice in other professional sports such as MLB, where instead of a hard salary cap, there is a "luxury tax" so that the Yankees / Dodgers / Red Sox are discouraged from spending more than a certain amount for payroll but not completely forbidden from doing so. [/QUOTE]