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Chewing the fat about the fattest cap chewers. (Insider: NBA).
Once upon a time--and we're talking pro basketball's Stone Age here--the NBA instituted a salary cap of sorts. It was 1946, and the limit was set at $55,000.
Most of the money was evenly distributed among all players, though the Detroit Falcons' Tom King was pulling down a whopping $16,500. Of course, King also was the team's business manager, so it's not surprising he was bringing in the biggest slice of the pie, though he was a 23.7 percent shooter from the field.
It's also not surprising that with King at the helm, the Falcons finished 20-40 and folded after the season.
But King's story illustrates a proud NBA tradition. Sure, the "cap" was ...
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