Let's start by looking at the most important numbers.
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Let's start with the salary cap basics, particularly the difference between signing bonus and base salary.
Base salary is the paid in the year it is earned and counts against the cap during that year. A signing bonus is a larger amount that is paid immediately at the signing of a new contract (hence the name), but the cap hit is spread out evenly among all the remaining years on the contract.
This gives teams some flexibility in managing the cap through restructures.