ESPN put up a story today about how the cap will jump to around $88-92 million in 2016 from around a projected $66 million next year.
They had been talking about smoothing the huge jump so you didn't have 2016 free agents being the only ones to reap the benefit, but the players union rejected all of those proposals today. They would have gotten the same % of money, just divided differently.
Guys on max contracts were the big winners today.
Lockout in 2017 was likely anyway, but today all but guaranteed it. Could be a long one.
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...y-cap-smoothing-historic-cap-increase-nba-set
They had been talking about smoothing the huge jump so you didn't have 2016 free agents being the only ones to reap the benefit, but the players union rejected all of those proposals today. They would have gotten the same % of money, just divided differently.
Guys on max contracts were the big winners today.
Lockout in 2017 was likely anyway, but today all but guaranteed it. Could be a long one.
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...y-cap-smoothing-historic-cap-increase-nba-set