Sure. But if he does, fine. He gave Nurk $10 mil. Those guys are much less valuable than Nurk. If he gives them much less than that, all good.
Nah. For Biebs at least I would expect something in the $15-20 million range. (and I am only half kidding)
I have a question about that this is from the CBA FAQ: "There is a special procedure in place to phase-in a 45% increase to the rookie salary scales for the 2017-18 through 2019-20 seasons (15% per year over three years). There is a "baseline" scale for 2017-18 that does not include the 15% increase used for the actual 2017-18 rookie scale. For 2018-19 they first apply the percentage change in the salary cap from 2017-18 (as described above) to the 2017-18 baseline scale to create the 2018-19 baseline scale, and then they increase all resulting amounts by 30% to create the actual rookie scale. For 2019-20 they repeat the process, starting with the baseline scale for 2018-19, applying the cap percentage increase or decrease to create the 2019-20 baseline scale, and then applying a 45% increase to create the 2019-20 rookie scale." http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q47 the baseline scale for the 25th pick in 2018-19 was $1,468,400. The cap is increasing by about 8%, so the new baseline would be $1,585,872. Above, it says they jack that up by 45% to establish the current baseline. But that 2018-19 baseline already has a 30% bump so I'm thinking either the FAQ has something wron or I'm a moron reading things wrong. Applying just the 15% bump for the final year gets the 'new' baseline to 1.82M. Then there is the almost automatic 20% bump teams are allowed which would jump the salary to 2.19M I guess that 20% bump wouldn't have to happen yet if Portland needed every penny of margin for free agency, but if they were headed for a hard cap, it wouldn't matter what am I getting wrong here?
I'm not sure. I use sites that already know what the pick at each position will make and already include the 20% extra in their calculations. They could be wrong I guess. Simons as the 24th pick this year made $1.83 million so your numbers do make more sense if their is the increase. Add $0.4 million to my projection then, that doesn't make a huge difference.
the reason I asked is because if you go by what that section of the CBA said, you'd start with the baseline scale for the 25th pick in 2018-19 of $1,468,400. Then you'd add the 8% bump for the increase in the salary cap getting it up to around 1.586M then, the exact words from the FAQ: For 2019-20 they repeat the process, starting with the baseline scale for 2018-19, applying the cap percentage increase or decrease to create the 2019-20 baseline scale, and then applying a 45% increase to create the 2019-20 rookie scale." that would mean a 45% bump on top, and that would establish the scale at 2.3M. The standard 20% bump on top of that would jump Little's salary to 2.76M. And I remember an ESPN podcast where the two guys were talking about the big jump rookie salaries were going to take this coming season. That fits that section above but it doesn't seem to match up well with math logic or the salary Simons had last season. Thus my confusion ultimately, whether it's 2.2M or 2.76M doesn't mean much. Less than 600K when you're dealing with 130M is kind of insignificant...unless maybe you're dealing with a hard-cap
