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2017 Cap projection down to $102M from $107M... was $111M at one point...
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crzymdups
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7/7/2016  10:59 AM    LAST EDITED: 7/7/2016  11:00 AM


We'll need to do some work to create room for Westbrook or a max deal. Of course, as we've seen, you have the conversation first and then you can usually move a guy off your cap pretty cheapily once you agree with a guy.

But it looks like the cap is only going up $8M or so, from an initial estimate of another $16M.

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7/7/2016  11:05 AM
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7/7/2016  11:16 AM
Great...means that a player who has never made an All-Star team, been in the finals, or been 1st/2nd/3rd team All-NBA Team...Mike Conley... has a chance to be the highest paid player beyond next season.

Timing trumps Talent, I guess.

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7/7/2016  11:19 AM
WaltLongmire wrote:Great...means that a player who has never made an All-Star team, been in the finals, or been 1st/2nd/3rd team All-NBA Team...Mike Conley... has a chance to be the highest paid player beyond next season.

Timing trumps Talent, I guess.

Ill agree there--whoever gave Mike Conley 30mm was playing with monopoly money. I think there will be a lockout as the whole process needs overhaul.

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7/7/2016  11:53 AM
BRIGGS wrote:
WaltLongmire wrote:Great...means that a player who has never made an All-Star team, been in the finals, or been 1st/2nd/3rd team All-NBA Team...Mike Conley... has a chance to be the highest paid player beyond next season.

Timing trumps Talent, I guess.

Ill agree there--whoever gave Mike Conley 30mm was playing with monopoly money. I think there will be a lockout as the whole process needs overhaul.

The only real option is to get rid of Max Contract limits so teams can pay the Elite more and leave less for non elite players. Owners have artificially compressed the pay scale so that there isn't enough separation. This causes teams to give too many bad contracts.

Lebron should be eating up more of the cap as should KD and eventually Curry. There should be less cap room to sign multiple Elite players if the Max is allowed to go higher. It will not lead to a Lockout if the Owners increase the Max. Players would agree to it.

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7/7/2016  12:12 PM
nixluva wrote:
BRIGGS wrote:
WaltLongmire wrote:Great...means that a player who has never made an All-Star team, been in the finals, or been 1st/2nd/3rd team All-NBA Team...Mike Conley... has a chance to be the highest paid player beyond next season.

Timing trumps Talent, I guess.

Ill agree there--whoever gave Mike Conley 30mm was playing with monopoly money. I think there will be a lockout as the whole process needs overhaul.

The only real option is to get rid of Max Contract limits so teams can pay the Elite more and leave less for non elite players. Owners have artificially compressed the pay scale so that there isn't enough separation. This causes teams to give too many bad contracts.

Lebron should be eating up more of the cap as should KD and eventually Curry. There should be less cap room to sign multiple Elite players if the Max is allowed to go higher. It will not lead to a Lockout if the Owners increase the Max. Players would agree to it.

If the new system to designed to give more finite cap space to a handful of players and less finite cap space to all the rest of the players, why would all the rest of the players go for that?

2017 Cap projection down to $102M from $107M... was $111M at one point...

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