Whether or not the league hits it out of the park in 2014 -- that's where the concern over the economy going forward comes in again -- the players are looking to protect themselves in case that grand-slam TV deal does come. So it's not so much what the number is today, but what it is two or three years from now, and how that number is calculated. The pegged cap (hard numbers, rather than percentages) is a big reason why the players pushed away from the table on March 11.