Wouldn't that just be the worst? Have them start, have Ptown make the playoffs, but then have them cancel because things are getting gout of hand? Would that not be typical of our heartbreak team? I should just start prepping for it now....
Important to differentiate between revenue (all money brought in) and margin (revenue minus expenses). Players get paid based on league revenue rather than margin. Even if the league's expenses increase, more total revenue means more money to the players, which is (I presume) the NBAPA's primary interest.
My question is for the long run, With the Blaze rs having the highest salary, how will this affect future caps of the next few years and our flexibility? Or will it completely strap us soo deep we are going to be screwed until Dame and CJs contracts expire?
Dame/CJ do certainly impact flexibility, no doubt, but recall that we only have "the highest salary" through this year. Next season we're well below tax level unless we ridiculously overpay Whiteside (unlikely).
Oh MLS hadn’t started yet. So it’s not going to happen in the NBA. Only 25 players have tested league wide and now the healthy ones are headed to bubble while sick ones are staying behind for now.
to field a competitive team, the Blazers will have to pay. That's where the flexibility will be restricted going forward. Over the next 3 seasons, Dame/CJ will make 74M, 81M, & 86M. and it's entirely possible the salary cap, (and tax threshold) will retract because of the pandemic. Blazers will be at 110M next season, assuming Ariza and Hood play for their expiring deals (Hood has a PO); and that's only for 10 players, with Nurk & Zach the only 2 players over 6'8. If the cap retracts 5-10%, Portland will be operating on a tiny margin
I do think that Dame's salary is a supermax contract and CJ's is a max contract, so I'm pretty sure that they get a certain percentage of the team's cap space. Now that might have been based on the cap number the year they signed their respective deals so maybe it doesn't matter. I actually don't think any of this matters too much because I'm sure the league will rip up the current CBA so the entire structure of the cap and luxury tax and everything could be very different.
https://clutchpoints.com/nets-news-spencer-dinwiddie-to-sit-out-restart-under-advice-from-doctors/ Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie to sit out restart under advice from doctors
I was talking about next season; neither have a contract for next season the league can't just "rip up" the CBA unless some really drastic triggers are in place. And if they want to actually play games and generate revenue they have to deal with the players thru the player's union Dame & CJ are on tract to eat up 65-70% of the salary cap over the next 3 seasons; they may even be likely to go over the 70% level. And will definitely be hogging more than half of the margin under the tax threshold but that's only part of the issue. When you have two max contracts invested in players like Kawhi & PG13; or Lebron and AD; or Curry & Durant; or Lebron and DWade; or KG & Paul Pierce; or Bird & McHale; or Magic & Kareem....you have an inside track to the finals because of the massive talent present in that investment. Every one of those guys has been 1st team all-NBA, many multiple times but when you invest that in a pair of 6'2 guards with similar styles and weak defense, and one is a 29 year old guard who hasn't come anywhere close to sniffing an all-star game in 7 seasons, you're facing overwhelming head winds. It's a bad investment
