NBA Salary Cap For 17-18 Drops From One-Time Projection Of $108M All The Way Down To $99M

Why are there even Max Salaries? In any other profession this would be absurd.

 

The low playoff revenue may be a recurring issue if the Warriors keep their core intact and the Cavs are able to get Paul George. And who knows what'll happen during the regular season if the Finals matchup is a foregone conclusion even before training camp(like it was last season).

With regard to the Warriors, can they really keep their key free agents with this lower cap threshold? I always figured McGee was gone since he's gonna get a fat contract offer from someone. But what about Livingston and Iggy? They can't possibly keep those two(not to mention Zaza, West, and Ian Clark) AND resign Curry and Durant to max(or near max) deals, right?

I don't know. If I'm Morey, maybe I don't gut this team trying to get some big name free agent. Maybe I sit back and leave this core intact(except for maybe Anderson) and hope that age finally does in the Spurs and free agent defections weaken the Warriors.

 

Who is going to be dumb enough to pay mcgee. They made that mistake once.

 

someone will pay him like 2 years / 14-15 mill.

 

So dumping a bad contract like Anderson's just got more difficult?

 

You kidding? Timofey Mozgov got 4 years, $64 million from the Lakers last summer. I could easily see McGee getting 2-3 years, 8-10 mil per. And the Warriors will never match that even though he gave them good minutes last season.

 

July 1.

 

Still one 9 too many.

Cap should be down to $9 million.

 

Warriors ruin everything! oh and I guess the Cavs too. They couldn't drop a few on the way???

 

That's interesting, it was in the player's best interest to extend each series to as many games as possible. So the players were incentivized to lose games on behalf of the players union. I'm sure that did not go unrealized.

 

It's a good question, honestly.

However the NBA is essentially a big corporation. If you've ever worked or interviewed with a corporation, you know they like to set salary bands depending on your 'level' in the workplace as a way to keep things equitable for everyone and keep some constraints on negotiations. I don't know exactly what the NBA gets from this, though; I'm guessing there's some concern on the executive side about negotiations and hold-outs running wild if you don't have a cap on things?

 

So it doesn't become as much of a competition between owners' wallets?

 

So in other news, the rich get richer now. Gotta love the NBA.

 

And all our pretty good contracts are going to look that much more enticing.

I'm looking at you Pat and Trevor.

 

lol

 

I'm so happy for the NBA and Adam Silver right now. On account of Warriors and Cavs dominating the playoffs, the projected cap dropped $2 million from 101 to 99 in the matter of months. That's a revenue loss of $60 million with all 30 teams factored in.

Hooray for superteams!

 

I was told the Warriors blowing everybody out was good for the NBA though?

 

The easy answer is the NBA is not like other professions and the quality of the product the NBA is selling in all but a few locations would be lessened with the lack of a salary cap.