Someone give me the cliff notes version. I dont understand how the Mavs who have noone on a max deal at 20 + mil per year seem to be up against the cap but lets just use Cleveland have Lebron at 20 + and Irving just got a max deal plus Verajoe sp? At like 10 mil plus they are wanting kevin love and his contract. Maybe Ive got wrong $$ figures but their starting 5 would be over the cap.

Kyrie's deal doesn't start until 2015.

There is no cliff notes version to the salary cap. Only a 37,482 page manual.

cliff notes: the NBA salary cap is a soft cap. There are many exceptions that teams can use to go over the cap.