Welcome to Lockdown Warriors, your daily podcast on all things, Warriors, part of the

Lockdown Podcast Network.

I'm your host, West Goldberg Warriors writer for the Mercury News, and I'm joined by one of my

most trusted salary cap experts. Jeff Siegel, founder of early bird rights.com and someone I go to

any time I have a salary cap related questions. Jeff, thanks for joining me. I know we've been

talking a little bit back and forth this morning on Twitter about some of the impacts that

the loss in basketball revenue could have on the salary cap. I know you had some thoughts

on, you know, maybe some potential estimates. What do you think that the league is considering

and how do you kind of see this playing out, if at all? I know that few people have any answers

to this, but

how can the basketball-related income affect the salary cap next season? Well, everything with the

salary cap is tied to basketball-related income. BRI is sort of the driver of the salary cap.

That's how the calculation goes. And so, you if the if the bRI is going to if the projected

bRI for next year is going to drop then that that will bring with it a drop in the salary cap but that's

sort of the key thing that a lot of people are talking about but it's very sort of weird to wrap your

head around if the 2019-20 total BRI drops,

that doesn't necessarily mean next year's projected BRI drops. Like, let's say the rest of this

season is canceled and they lose out on, you know, billions of dollars in revenue. Well, that doesn't

mean that next year is going to also have that same thing because, you know, presumably that would mean that all of next year will happen and therefore they will have a full complement of revenue to use to pay the players.

So that would be a situation where the salary cap for next year would not be affected because the projected revenue would

remain where they thought it would going into next year.

You know, obviously this thing, this pandemic, if it lasts into the fall and all of a sudden

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