[NBA Recap] How the Warriors salary cap was impacted by the Kuminga trade
This is such a great way to show salary cap in a meaningful way. Can we get more?
Yea. I feel like we should normalize talking about salaries in terms of percentage, rather than the dollar amount.
Its hard to do that for the NBA because of how it works.
Is it a percentage of base cap, apron 1, apron 2, etc etc…
Makes more sense in a hard capped league like the NFL.
Cap is 100%. 1st apron 110%, 2nd apron 120%, or whatever those numbers are in reality(i don’t know). It would make things way easier and quick to familiarize with instead of 65,000,000. What percentage of the pie a player eats up is the important part, the exact number is irrelevant since it changes every year.
Except the first apron isn’t 10% of the cap.
Google says:
Salary Cap = 100%
Luxury Tax Line ≈ 120%
1st Apron ≈ 127–128%
2nd Apron ≈ 134–135%
Seems easy enough.
The guy that actually does these posts on YouTube shorts, for every team analyzing their salary caps during the trade deadline and offseason.
Def do more of these vids this was a great way to visualize the cap and teach people about how it works
I want to see a Clippers version with an extra bar for the Aspiration payments
or they could present that one as a tree diagram
Why did you not increase the cap thresholds for next season?
This was probably not the most interesting team to do this for
The way the video was made was way more interesting than the info.
Probably. But they warriors are up there in repeaters. The 2nd apron talk would come down to the thunder if they don’t repeat
What is the repeater tax?
The longer you are over the tax the more you pay for that.
Basically why dynasties are going to be very hard to do now. Get a stacked team you are screwed unless you have rookie contracts. A team of market value players has no shot and will be poached within 2 years.
Repeater tax was a thing during the Warriors dynasty too. If you have a rich owner who doesn’t mind paying it, it’s basically not an issue - if you have a high revenue team it’s basically the cost of doing business.
The main issue is still the second apron - at that point, there are real consequences that hurt landing free agents if you’re over the second apron.
That’s why teams won’t mind paying the repeater tax if they have a decent team, but they avoid the second apron like a plague unless they think for sure that they have a contender.
Salary cap doesn’t really matter anymore, just pay them under the table
Random: why is it only the nba subreddit that my phone struggles playing videos from?
Am I doing something wrong? Like they never play and just say error. Yet below this post is the mlb subreddit with the video playing perfectly fine.
That was such a satisfying video to watch. Wish we could get this for every team!
This is why i think its ridiculous how so many so called Warriors fans say the team owes it to Curry to trade him to a team where he still can compete for titles instead of trying to still build around him. Hes the highest paid player in the league for 10 seasons in the row, they act like we are holding him hostage here kicking and screaming. And its not like we have been cheap and not trying to make big moves.
Fans from every team: I’m a better GM than the actual GM. I would trade player A, B ,C for player X, Y, Z.
As if trades are decided unilaterally.
steph gotta be the biggest waste of money itl
He is the face of the franchise, brings people to watch and is averaging over 27 points per game, how is that a waste?
What are you basing that on, because it cant be business sense or economics
You’re gonna get down voted for hating on Steph (rightfully), but every supermax contract is basically an albatross if you’re trying to win. Every contender relies on players playing way above their contract.
See Giannis this year with teams rightfully apprehensive to gut their depth for him, and see Durant his whole career after GSW. It’s basically impossible to play above value for a supermax, and you’re always going to pay them because they are a fan favorite (see: Bradley Beal).
Thankfully no one cares about warriors anymore. Enjoy irrelevancy