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Well there are still ways around it like you said but I feel quite a few sign and trades are a case of people finding out their cap space and FA salary requests and then realizing they have to shift someone. I know I plan my cap ahead of time but I have to guesstimate what players will request and then that changes after ratings changes too.

And yeah you could extend someone and then still trade them to circumvent it but it will cost you more dead money. If you extend someone early I believe their old signing bonus is rolled into the new contract too. So if you signed them go a 2 year deal at season end to leave them with 1 year remaining in the new offseason you would be paying half of their old remaining signing bonus and then their new signing bonus too. So maybe instead of costing you 1.5m in dead money it might now cost you 2.25m or something.

And KCF could simply say you can't trade someone you extending in the previous season. I mean really how many people do early extensions anyway? And if they do how many do it for 2 years? The intent would be obvious. I think the only time I ever extended someone early was to avoid them hitting RFA and having to match a pricier deal