Official 2016-2017 NBA Season Thread - NBA rules Chris Bosh has a career ending injury

[HIM]

For the people that are up in arms with the new KD rule, how would you guys want things to work? Everything equal? Should Incumbent teams have any advantage?

I really have no issue with the incumbent team being able to offer an extra year and a higher max. If anyrhing, it helps the teams who are able to lure a superstar away from their squad. We got dudes signing one-year deals just to take advantage of cap jumps. I'm not mad at the league giving players incentives to stay. They can still walk and get A Lot of money with a chance at a 2nd huge contract one year earlier.

 

[nick.]

Vertical Sources: NBA, NBPA project salary cap to rise to $120M in 2020, with $143M tax threshold. Up from $94.1M in 2016, $103M in 2017.

 

[bballkid11]

Wall getting his wish.

Gonna get that breeeeeeeead

 

[freeze]

dudes gonna all be copping 200+ million dollar contracts omg

 

[addict4sneakers]

I need that Elton brand, mike miller role where you get $8 M to babysit

 

[moonman818]

Does that cap jump really help though when your top 2 players will be pushing $80-90 million?

Someone please clarify

 

[ballinsam23]

NBA looking out for its players. Give them 200 mill contracts now. Let them blow it all and go broke. Then give them a retirement pension after that

 

[hardens beard]

Will draymond and klay get raises since the eligible now or will GS go the cheap route. No way they can afford all 4 now

 

[starboy]

They can certainly afford all 4. They're just going to get luxury taxed to death. 

 

[abubakr shaheed]

They can certainly afford all 4. They're just going to get luxury taxed to death. 

but what can they afford outside of those 4 players?

 

[hardens beard]

They can certainly afford all 4. They're just going to get luxury taxed to death. 

Even with draymond and klay being eligible for the same extension curry's getting?

30million+ for all 4 or them

 

[starboy]

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[h1]Why the NBA’s new CBA seems to be good news for the Warriors[/h1]
Perhaps the most interesting and impactful new rule, from a Warriors perspective, is the designated veteran player provision. It allows a select group of megastars, who meet a certain criteria, to re-sign with their current team on a 35 percent max deal even before they would’ve previously been eligible. According to the Washington Post, the player qualifies if he was on an All-NBA the previous season (or two of the previous three) or won MVP in any of the previous three seasons.

Kevin Durant would’ve qualified for it last summer or even the summer before that, should he have desired an extension. It would’ve raised his max capabilities from 30 to 35 percent and made it more enticing for him to stay in Oklahoma City. So it’s a rule that could’ve hurt the Warriors had it been applied earlier. But it may serve to help them now. Because Steph Curry is in that exact situation this summer.

This is Curry’s eighth season. He would’ve qualified to gobble up only 30 percent of the cap in his max deal. But he won MVP the past two seasons. So he can eat up 35 percent of the projected $102 million salary cap. That would plant his max contract at a projected five years, $207 million, an estimated $80 million more guaranteed than another suitor could offer over the life of the deal. If you figured Curry was heavily leaning toward a return before, it has tilted toward a near lock.

But how does that extra money for Curry affect the rest of the Warriors? Down the road, when Draymond Green and Klay Thompson are up for new deals, it perhaps might. But not this offseason. Because Golden State holds his Bird rights, they can do the rest of their summer business before locking Curry into his deal.

That includes Kevin Durant, the key cog in this entire equation. Durant doesn’t qualify for the designated player exception with the Warriors because they didn’t draft him. But he is completing his 10th season, meaning he can also get a 35 percent max deal. But Golden State doesn’t hold his Bird rights. So he must be signed with cap space.

That is, unless Durant allows the Warriors to take advantage of a non-Bird rights deal. Instead of taking his full max, projected to start at $36 million, it would require him to take a 120 percent raise on his current deal, which would start his new deal around $31.8 million, a more than $4 million paycut.

Why would that benefit the Warriors? It would allow them to retain the rights to veteran free agents Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston and keep their top six together. But if Durant wants his full max — which some would consider likely, given the short-term, financially driven deal he signed this past offseason — then the Warriors would have to renounce Iguodala and Livingston.

Either or both could choose to come back. But the Warriors wouldn’t have much cap space to play with, probably somewhere around $5 million. Both would likely lure much more on the market. So if either or both leave, the Warriors are stuck with little room to fill out a thin bench.

But that’s where another CBA change may help the Warriors. The NBA is raising the mid-level, bi-annual and minimum exceptions by 45 percent next season, according the Washington Post. That’s news that’ll conceivably help any team over the cap. But it’s a tool that mostly benefits the Cavaliers and Clippers and Warriors of the world.

If Golden State is trying to lure the Zaza Pachulia, David West types to take a paycut and chase a ring, every bit of extra money helps their pursuit. They’ll have a bit more to offer now.

But the Warriors world still revolves around its four stars. And, post-CBA news, it still remains reasonable that they can keep those four together. At least for now.

 

[hankmoody]

It's taken, what, 20 years to go from a 100m to 200m nba contract? 300m contract by the end of this new CBA for sure.

Edit: Poster on r/nba wrote that Ant Davis' next contract in 2020 could be for 6 years, 304M.

 

[hardens beard]

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My bad I was under the assumption that they changed when you could renegotiate your deal ala James harden and russel Westbrook. I thought they went from 2 years left to 3.

 

[Moheezy]

to be fair, DJ Augustin was also running the team like a well oiled machine, same as Ish, and in both cases, SVG downplayed their value for Reggie.

It's crazy to me. Like, bruh, are we watching the same game.

Reggie is a backup pg at best. John Wallet was right af. I'm sorry @The Collector

Don't forget Jennings was doing a very good job just before his Achilles injury. He was dropping dimes like crazy.

 

[awwsome]

Don't forget Jennings was doing a very good job just before his Achilles injury. He was dropping dimes like crazy.

Will always love Jennings during his Pistons run, my first big pay day came because of him.

 

[Moheezy]

Sounds crazy but the Pistons need to find a way to tank because realistically how else are they going to find a franchise PG?

Reggie at his best is still not even going to get you out the second round in the east.


Good thing they signed him before the cap REALLY jumped, he's still movable.

This might be it.

Idk if we are bad enough to tank but if we miss the playoffs he got to get moved.

I am fed up with Drummond too. Everyone will say "cant get equal value", "he is still young" blah blah.

Boy aint had 1 move in all his years, no work ethic, Not a elite defender, and effort is mediocre at best most games.

Just going through the motions out there.

The either option would be trading Reggie + their pick to move up the draft and nab a pg. The draft is deep with pgs and I'm sure they can nab someone like ball if they play their cards right.

 

[awwsome]

The either option would be trading Reggie + their pick to move up the draft and nab a pg. The draft is deep with pgs and I'm sure they can nab someone like ball if they play their cards right.

To me, it's Fultz or nothing.

Ball isn't an NBA franchise or even the second best PG in this upcoming draft.

That's DeAaron Fox.

I'd definitely give up Reggie and a pick for Fultz though.

 

[1Cn9wL8dg3]

Reminds me of young Kobe so much it's not even funny

I been saying that

 

[freeze]

i was 1st with the lightweight Lavine/Kobe comparisons. Hence why I've been pushing for a while now to get him on the Show. I see some promise in him.

 

[Moheezy]

The either option would be trading Reggie + their pick to move up the draft and nab a pg. The draft is deep with pgs and I'm sure they can nab someone like ball if they play their cards right.

To me, it's Fultz or nothing.

Ball isn't an NBA franchise or even the second best PG in this upcoming draft.

That's DeAaron Fox.

I'd definitely give up Reggie and a pick for Fultz though.

As the pistons it's a no brainer, but no team will give up Fultz for Reggie.

I'm just looking for equal value. Reggie is best suited as a backup.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Can't wait to see this kid from France. 6'5 pg ... he looks pretty intriguing

 

[Peep Game]

Reggie Jackson, Rudy Gay, Dwight, and Lance Stephenson need to find a way to be on the same team

 

[freeze]

Reggie Jackson, Rudy Gay, Dwight, and Lance Stephenson need to find a way to be on the same team

lookin like a kings starting 5 if ever i've seen one

 

[awwsome]

Reggie Jackson, Rudy Gay, Dwight, and Lance Stephenson need to find a way to be on the same team

Suicide Squad sequel.