winforlose wrote:frankenwolf wrote:winforlose wrote:https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/275638/NBAs-Next-Media-Rights-Deals-Closing-In-On-$7-Billion-Per-Season
This is great news for us. The more the cap rises year by year the easier it will be to maintain an expensive team.
I'm not a CBA or a cap guy, but didn't the current CBA cap the percentage rise per year? Shrink, help me out here, please.
Cap raises as the overall NBA revenue rises. The new CBA caps the percentage the cap can jump by 10% per year. Extra from any given year is distributed into future years. So the more money the TV deal pays the better for us. This is oversimplified but essentially good enough.
Yes, last time there was a big new tv deal, the players Union rejected the owners’ attempt to limit the huge influx of money, and its affect on the cap. It had two unfortunate effects - every player THAT YEAR who needed a new deal got that money, and the higher cap allowed GSW to add Durant to an already stacked team. Win’s right, this time it’s limited to 10%.
As CBA nerds, we get so focused on the salary cap though, that people miss the big picture — the owners get that tv money. For us that’s a very big deal, because our owners may be more willing to pay lux taxes