There’s a salary cap on each team which they are allowed to spend on the start of the regular season. This year 2025-2026 is around 156M which means Doncic already gets the 1/3 of Lakers salary cap every year.

Team that exceeds salary cap will pay luxury tax which so high that only rich team can afford it if they want to keep the current roster for a chance to get championship or defend their title.

This is why Team usually trade a lot of player in exchange to single player to have a room for salary allocation.

Most likely, he'll waiting for the max contract. Or this could just be a PR move and then in the end he'll still sign with the Nuggets. We don't know, things can change so fast before the season starts.

Yeah, it's going to be costly for the Lakers if they're going to let Jokic in the team or some key players will have to deduct some salaries just to fill the cap.

I agree, if the non so key players are asking for better deals to their contracts and still looking for teams to give them what they want. How much more a caliber player like Jokic. He might say that he doesn't care about the money but, the fact is that all of them are for it and trying to look for the best deal ever on the upcoming season and even for the next years to come.

Well, I thought Luka Doncic would be the first player to make $1,000,000 per game in the NBA but Dallas cheaped out and sent him to Los Angeles to avoid paying a supermax. Now it looks like Luka will get his $1,000,000 per game with his next contract. We’ll see if he’s the first to do it or not.

I thought it's for 2 years, but for a year? I do agree that is too much money for a player of his caliber. He is not the leader of the Heat when Jimmy left. I think Bam is still their main man and Bam has proven that he is their franchise player now. Hero is good no doubt about it, but he is also inconsistent. If he can proved this season but leading the Heat to a good standing in the East, then maybe it's worth that money. But I don't think that he can anchor, if I remember, someone man handled him, throwing him to the ground, Lol. And then we have to question his mentality as well. When Butler was still in the Heat, he looks good because of the assists of Butler. But when Butler left, Heat turns into like a very disorganized team.

Agree to that, Bam is still the main man not Him he needs to prove hmself if he wanted to have that kind of paycheck, like you said he's incosistent there are games that he played well but there are also that he's struggling he need to play harder and make his impactby putting Miami to he playoffs and just like what Jimmy did wayback, bringing them to the top even in paper their squad is not as competitive the way their opponents was, that's the impact that Butler brings them before, for sure if he can manage to do that, Miami's management will be the one that will offer such huge deal or more for him,.

I agree that he has become an important piece for the Heat, and I also agree that he needs to earn what he's asking first. Though he averages 23 ppg, 5+ for both asst and reb, these are good numbers and well within the range of what he's asking for his contract, but he's yet to make any impact at an elite level in the playoffs.
If I remember it correctly, players who first made that kind of contract have shown a significant impact on the team already at an elite level, something Tyler Herro doesn't have currently. 

Grok says that ticket prices went up 95% from 2016-2022. There is no way that can be attributed to just inflation. I think a lot of it is greed. Both by the players and the owners. Most of the good tickets are bought by companies and given away these days or else the stadiums floor seats would probably be mostly empty. Things have gone too far. I think we might be seeing the final days of growth in the NBA after decades of explosive value creation.

The ticket prices are only a few way for the teams and managements to get some profits. It's not covering the whole thing for the contracts that they're giving to their players. They're also earning from the merchs and so, all of these are becoming expensive. Inflation and high contracts, so we're seeing the demand in there for the ticket prices especially the front side as they become too expensive.

Yes, with millions of fans. Even watching just one in a lifetime even it's costly, we've got that dream of watching our favorite team's game.

He's been a part of Nuggets and if he's going to act like the others looking for max contract, they are unsure if some teams will get them. But it's different with Jokic, he's still one of the best tall guys in the game and can shoot outside so, maybe it's just a delaying tactic for him.

Yeah, that's one factor to look at it's inflation. And not just in NBA, if I'm not mistaken, in football as well wherein there are wealthy nations in the Middle East who are willing to pay elite players huge amount of money that a NBA player can only dream of. So it's not the fault of the league itself, times are evolving and with inflation every year, they will have to increased everything, otherwise their business is going to die. And with the owners now amassing massive amount of wealth not just in NBA but their bread and butter business, they can really afford to pay this elite players good salary. And for those scrubs? Nah, unless they are really have a good mentor behind, they can't sustain that lifestyle and so it's hard for them to build generational wealth.


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