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lemmy.world

I am new to the nba, I understood teams have a salary cap which prevented astronomical salaries within the sport. Anyone care to enlighten me?

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Tavarinreply
lemmy.world

The NBA also has a salary floor, a minimum amount a team needs to spend. Houston was $50 million under the salary floor, so they overpaid Fred to cover most of the floor.

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The salary floor? It's to ensure the players make 50% of the NBA revenue. Without the floor it's hard to guarantee enough money is going to the players overall.

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lemmy.world

NBA salaries have become way too inflated. Makes it a tough fact to digest when watching these games.

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It's abit of a slim pickings year to be honest, your ether overpaying or have a prima donna.. As Raps fan FVV is underrated though. But Kyrie got less..

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Houston had to hit the salary floor, so they had lots of room to overpay.

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NBA salaries have become way too inflated. Makes it a tough fact to digest when watching these games.

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lemmy.world

Wow. These salaries are crazy! Is this the first domino for Toronto to actually start rebuilding?

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Weak FA and they had to reach 90% of the salary cap. Perfect timing for Fred to get a massive bag.

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Interesting fit for them if you ask me. Jalen Green and Amen seemed to be a back court of the future. If FVV doesn't fall off a cliff I suppose they could trade him after a year or two of Amen developing, but that's a huge number to move.

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