21 bite-sized lessons. Each one introduces a single concept, drills it with a hands-on interaction, then asks you to apply it to a real call. No textbook prose — just doing.
Why a team can look strapped on paper and still have $60M to spend.
L3The Tax Line
When over the cap stops being free and starts costing money.
L4The Two Aprons
Two more lines above the tax — each one removes more tools.
MODULE 2
Keeping Your Own
L5Bird Rights
How over-the-cap teams re-sign their own stars to massive deals.
L6Rookie Extensions
Lock in a young star early — and the All-NBA bump that can raise the deal from 25% to 30% of the cap.
MODULE 3
Adding Above the Cap
L7The Mid-Level Exception
Your biggest tool above the cap. Hard-caps you when used.
L8Bi-Annual Exception
Smaller mid-level. Every other year only.
L9Minimum Contracts
The free tool that survives every apron.
MODULE 4
Trading
L10Salary Matching
The silent constraint behind every NBA trade you've ever seen.
L11Traded Player Exceptions
When you trade out and take less back, the difference becomes a credit.
L12The Stretch Provision
Emergency cap relief on a contract that didn't work out.
L13Aggregation
Combine two contracts in one trade for one bigger contract back.
MODULE 5
Advanced
L14Sign-and-Trade
Acquire a star free agent through his old team — at a cost.
L15Qualifying Offers
Tender to retain match rights on a young free agent.
L16The Arenas Rule
How offer sheets get poison-pilled to make matching painful.
L17Trade Restrictions
Why just-signed players can't be traded right away.
L18Designated Veteran
The supermax — 35% of cap for elite 7-9 YOS players.
L19Life Above the 2nd Apron
All the restrictions, stacked on one team. What's left?
L20Repeater Tax
What years of being a taxpayer eventually costs you.
L21Multi-Team Trades
When two teams can't make it work alone, a third team makes the math.
All 21 lessons cover the full curriculum — from the cap line to the second apron and repeater tax. Lessons unlock in order as you complete them. Finished a lesson? Replay it anytime to sharpen up.