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You can get around the rules and structure cap hit like that by signing two separate contracts. For a normal contract, a player can sign a contract extension one full year before the contract expires. However if the initial contract is 1 year like in your scenario, the player must wait until some date in January (I think) for a regular season.
So for Nuge, he could just sign a 1 year deal and then make a handshake deal agreeing to an extension that would be signed in January.