Klomp wrote:You know that all max contracts change based on the salary cap, right? (well, technically based on BRI, but whatever).
That's only the 1st year. Every year after is only limited by pre-set percentage based increases of that 1st year. If his max is 25% of the salary cap, and the salary cap is $65 million, it still only goes up by that pre-set percentage. It doesn't suddenly become 25% of $80 million (or whatever the cap eventually becomes).
Green's max will start at roughly 16.575m, but if he had become a FA one year later it would start at $20m, based on proojections.
The max for a guy with 0-6 years experience is 25% of the cap. Just looking now, NBCsports is projecting a salary cap next year of $66.3 million, so Green's deal would start at $16.575 like you said. The next year, it would raise 7.5% (assuming he gets the max raise each year) to $17.818 million. The cap is projected (again by NBCsports) to be $87 million that year. So, Green's deal would go from 25% of the cap to 20.1% of the cap. The next year the cap is projected at $94 million. Green's deal would be $19.15 million, or 20.3% of the cap.
The point is that the his salary wouldn't be capable of rising as fast as the cap is projected to rise, so it will be less relative to the cap in say 2017 than a max deal signed in 2017 will be.
