Let's say the max salary rules on player contracts were eliminated. To make this hypothetical more simple by preventing cap space and bird rights from artificially constraining a free agent's market value, let's also say there was a hard cap and all contracts were 1-year.
What percentage of the cap would Jokic (or whoever you think is the best player) go for?
How much would Jokic cost without a max?
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How much would Jokic cost without a max?
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About the same. Or you would need to surround him with mediocre players, so what's the point?
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It's hard to say because we've never had market pricing for superstar players. He would definitely get more than he gets now. Probably something like $80M. He is easily the biggest floor raiser in the game. We've seen Jokic win 48 games with only one legit starter as a teammate (Aaron Gordon).
Put Jokic in the East, give him two $20M-a-year starters and a bunch of shrewdly selected minimum salary free agents and you could win 50.
Put Jokic in the East, give him two $20M-a-year starters and a bunch of shrewdly selected minimum salary free agents and you could win 50.