Cause they can’t read

because everything (contract value, roster construction, etc) works off of the salary cap

every year the cap can go up a max of 10%. it went up 10% last season, and given the huge new media rights deal, everyone expected the cap to go up 10% every year for the near future.

this explains why some teams like Toronto gave Immanuel Quickley 5yrs, 162.5 million at a flat salary. because they thought year-over-year the cap increases would round Quickley’s flat yearly salary closer to 15% of the cap by the end, as a starting guard.

however, last year the league revealed the salary cap was only expected to go up 7% instead of 10%. then, a couple months later they said it would go up slightly to like 7.5%. now, they’re retracting it to somewhere around 7%.

that .5% variation in a 165 million dollar salary cap is significant. if you see how teams have to delay 2-way contract signings, wait for prorated vet min signings, even sign anyone healthy (see the Mavs last year), just to stay under the aprons, you’ll get a better understanding

its more that some teams probably projected it to be 11 million instead of 10 million…and when it is a hard cap, then I guess it means a a new move has to be made to shed that extra million

Yea it might have implications on some signing being allowed (potentially) but probably won’t impact anything at all in all likelihood

they have nice aspirations

Yes, that’s why Jaylen Brown’s “first \(300 million contract” ended up being worth less than \)300 million. Not sure how he’ll feed his family now. Tatum ended up signing the actual first $300 million contract the following year

Yea. Their initial projections are always best case scenario. The assumption is that they’ll be a lil wiggle room

It’s been back-to-back years now with 6.7% increases that have fallen short of projections. People are freaking out for the wrong reasons, but it is still significant when you consider that— after the new TV deal— many cap experts (most of whom actually work in front offices) penciled in easy 10% increases for at least the next 3-4 years and gave out contracts with that in mind.

In the grand scheme of things, this changes very little. It just could eventually make contracts, like the ones given to Naz Reid for example, look worse in 3 years than it originally would have. And if this trend continues we could reach a point where contract extensions are outpacing the salary cap.

Time to go plant some trees. 

This is because the owner of half of the RSN’s collapsed after a series of terrible leveraged buyouts. Its effecting MLB and the NHL as well

This but unironically

if the 2nd worst trade in sports history doesn’t happen, the league is quite balanced lol

This isn’t even going down. It’s just “rising $1M less than we projected”

when the tree was planted

It didn’t go down. It’s still up year over year just below what they predicted. Pretty normal there is an adjustment from outlooks.

It’s not allowed to go down per the CBA. It was flat from 2019-20 to 2020-21.

never because the league will implode before that happens

I remember that the 2020 cap stayed level. It was like $109.5 or something. I remember this because that was the start of Ben Simmons’ rookie extension and it turned out to be lower than was reported the summer before because they had expected a bigger bump.

Alright are we just throwing this dynasty word around now. They are 100% not a dynasty.

Okc is a dynasty. Coming from a Lakers fan? You should be ashamed. We’re supposed to know what a dynasty is.

And why is that a bad thing?