According to Storyteller, the Most LMA can Get is $100m/5 Years from Portland

I keep reading about $127m, but according to Storyteller, that contract maxes out at $100m.

Who came up with the $127m figure that has been debated here to death?

http://www.blazersedge.com/2014/5/3...contract-extension-portland-trail-blazers-cba

 

Yeah, just like D12. He can get $80m/4 years on another team.

 

I took for granted the $127 MILLION stuff being thrown around on this board, which was my first mistake for taking those posters seriously. I should have learned by now not to do so. Apparently, that can't happen, so as usual, the pant-shitting LMA stuff wasn't at all based on reality.

 

Is he worth that?

 

haha i was right! 5/100 it is!

no stealsies

 

from coons faq though it says players with 7-9 years service time can receive up to 30% of the cap their first year, and that will be more than 17+ million next offseason...

paging brianfromwa

 

I believe it's based on the cap increasing more than storyteller is projecting.

He states: I'm also assuming that maximum salary amounts increase by 3% each year over the next few seasons

early projections for the 2014-15 cap show an expected jump of about 8%

I dunno if with that corrected amount, instead of the smaller increase, it gets to the 127 million, but it does give you a bigger amount than 100.

 

yeah papag, i think they are going off the cap figure from this year, 30% of that is the 17+MM figure, whereas by the time he signs a deal after next season, 30% of the cap will be closer to 20MM and with 7.5% raises his last year of a 5 year deal will be pushing 27ishMM

off the top of my head it would be around 5/115 if he started at around 20 MM

 

30% of the cap

7.5% non compounded raises based off the first year of the contract

gonna have to wait for the cap number for 2015/16 to get deeper than that though, if he even demands a max

 

I think it's far more likely that the entire CBA is renegotiated in 2017 than any other scenario. I don't see the salary cap being lowered since the Clippers just sold for the second-highest price of any professional team in the world, behind Man United. It's going to be hard for the owners to declare poverty when a racist just cashed in on $20m for an afterthought franchise in LA.

 

So some posters here have been freaking out over the absolute worst-case scenario, which I don't think is worst-case if it keeps LMA in Portland. I still think the upcoming lockout in 2017 will make any LMA contract a moot point 5 years from now.

 

Storyteller was right, then. Oh well, erase that last month of pant-shitting on this board. I don't see how 5/$100m can be considered that much of a liability for a guy who will be 33 entering the last year of that contract.

 

Yay, more posts about the forum. At least this one kind of has some valuable information amongst all the ha ha's and I told you so's and S2 posters are dumb.

 

Don't forget pant shitting.

 

How can I forget? The pants shitting.

 

Many pants have been shatted in the last month over a fictional $127m contract.

 

The 127m is based off of early speculation that the cap will go up by 8-9m. If it doesn't then his Max is much lower. Regardless of what the # actually is he is worth the Max.