wakelaunch1 wrote:og15 wrote:wakelaunch1 wrote:PG is a 30 million dollar player at best. his handling has fallen off a cliff. When he starts trying to dribble past a guy its almost always a turnover or a bad shot. Not a max player, and he is only getting worse. He might score a lot of points but not as good as Harden/Kawhi. If he wants more than 30million i let him walk and resign Harden. Give Russ 20 million. and then fill in our new pieces.
You need to get updated on NBA contracts, that's really all there is to it. It's good you're not the one in charge of building this team.
You realize you cant give 50 million to more than 2 players in the next CBA right?
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-cba-101-everything-to-know-about-new-agreement-from-salary-cap-to-free-agency-and-beyond/
Quoting from the article you cited, as I'm not sure where you read that in the breakdown:
Speaking of the supermax, the new CBA does make one direct change that addresses it. In the past, teams were limited to only two players at each tier of supermax: the Rose Rule version that applied to younger players coming off of rookie contracts as well the designated veteran version for players with at least seven years of experience. This proved especially problematic in trade negotiations, as teams were forbidden from having multiple players on their roster with that Rose Rule designation if they did not draft at least one of them. This prevented the Boston Celtics from trading for Anthony Davis when they had Kyrie Irving, and it could have impacted trade negotiations involving Ben Simmons over the past two offseasons.
Those restrictions have been lifted, and teams are now free to give the supermax to any player that is eligible for it.
...but here is from Woj last year
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Regardless of all that, Kawhi signed a 3 year extension, and it's not a supermax extension, so even if that was still in play, it wouldn't be in play.
And also, again, let's even say that it was still true, how does that address why that makes George a max $30 million player at best?
Salary cap is $136M, if we're looking at the different cap tiers, we have 25%, 30%, 35%. A 30% cap player is already at $41 million starting salary. A $30 million player is 22% of the cap.
$30 million players are either guys coming off their rookies contracts who weren't eligible for higher max contracts, or guys like DeRozan, Middleton, etc. Guys like Poole, Jerami Grant, etc making around $28 million this season in the current NBA salary landscape. Anyone thinking Paul George is an under 30% of cap player simply is misinformed on what tiers of players get what types of salaries in the NBA, it's not even a debatable situation.
Paul George makes $45 million this season. Next season he has a $48.8 million player option, so of course extension wise, if you're not getting him to that amount, then he might as well just pick up his option.