Wasn't sure where else to post this, but just thought I'd do it to help give some perspective on contracts that have been handed out and will be handed out in the future.
In the NBA the average player contract is usually around 10% of the salary cap. Which makes sense since you usually have about 15 guys on a roster, the cheapest 5 are usually minimums or rookie deals and the remaining 10 would split the rest (I know every team is not exactly at the cap, but if you average all 30 teams payrolls out it usually comes to somewhere around there). With the cap projected to average out at around 100M over the next 4-5 seasons or so, it makes sense that the average player salary should reach $10M.
This has a lot of ramifications when looking at some of the deals our guys have gotten. You look at a guy like CoJo who's going to be making ~$7.5M for 2 years in the new cap environment before his PO kicks in and realize that is a complete steal for a player of his caliber. Then you look at Ross, who many think we overpaid but really he was given what's going to be an average contract after about 2017 or so. Carroll's only making an above average salary, not anything crazy.
It's interesting because as recently as like 2010 the average player salary would've been around $5M with top players making upwards of $10M and the mid-max being in the mid teens. Now we're going to see an average of $10M with top players making upwards of $20M and the mid-max being in the high 20s. It's really a significant financial change that's coming to the NBA.
In the NBA the average player contract is usually around 10% of the salary cap. Which makes sense since you usually have about 15 guys on a roster, the cheapest 5 are usually minimums or rookie deals and the remaining 10 would split the rest (I know every team is not exactly at the cap, but if you average all 30 teams payrolls out it usually comes to somewhere around there). With the cap projected to average out at around 100M over the next 4-5 seasons or so, it makes sense that the average player salary should reach $10M.
This has a lot of ramifications when looking at some of the deals our guys have gotten. You look at a guy like CoJo who's going to be making ~$7.5M for 2 years in the new cap environment before his PO kicks in and realize that is a complete steal for a player of his caliber. Then you look at Ross, who many think we overpaid but really he was given what's going to be an average contract after about 2017 or so. Carroll's only making an above average salary, not anything crazy.
It's interesting because as recently as like 2010 the average player salary would've been around $5M with top players making upwards of $10M and the mid-max being in the mid teens. Now we're going to see an average of $10M with top players making upwards of $20M and the mid-max being in the high 20s. It's really a significant financial change that's coming to the NBA.
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