explained the salary cap to my barber and it took two haircuts. session one he thinks it's a credit card. session two we get to dead money and he stops cutting entirely, scissors just hovering, asking why a team pays a guy to not play for them. told him that's not a cap question, that's a personnel evaluation nobody wanted to make out loud two years ago and now everybody's paying the tuition. he goes 'so it's like a bad haircut you already paid for.' yes. exactly that. he understood dead money through a haircut metaphor faster than half of stats twitter understands it through actual numbers, and I don't know what that says about either of us.