I've been trying to follow the Nuggets cap space and signing strategy but I may have missed some details. My understanding is that the Nuggets MUST spend on Free Agency this year in order to reach the cap floor. Which means $20M+ or so in contracts. But with a mediocre free agency class, they are reluctant to give out big contracts that will cripple them in future years. So I have an idea and I'm wondering if this is legit:

What if they signed a player to a contract that paid out a $20M 3 year but structured it like this:

$16M in Y1

$2M in Y2

$2M in Y3

So this would help get us to the contract floor for this year but leave us with a ton of capspace in subsequent years. Is this legal under the CBA?

What do you think? If this has already been discussed on DenverStiffs, please point me to that discussion.

Thanks.