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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 879669">It is "no play, no pay" except for that that meager $150,000 stipend which is in affect an advance against the 2021 salary if the guy is still playing.Signing bonuses are cash money already paid.  You can't claw it back.  You can't reach your hand into somebody else's bank account.  There are frequent misunderstandings of the ramifications of signing bonuses.I was wondering what rabbit they might pull out of a hat to address cancelled games where the league would seek to withhold game checks.  How would they deal with the inequites in having one player who just got a big signing bonus with a small first year salary vs. a guy working on a contract where 2020 is heavily weighted to salary, frequently guys on the back end of a contract?This is no hat and there is no rabbit.At least in these opt out scenarios the guy with a salary-laden 2020 contract year has that salary carried over to 2021.  The guy who got the big signing bonus with a small 2020 salary is incentivized to sit out more than the other guy, all other things being equal.</blockquote>

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