TimberKat wrote:shrink wrote:TimberKat wrote:What is the avg or median salary of NBA all stars? I think he will be overpaid but not close to 10 worse.
Very few (24) All Stars don’t make the max these days, unless the are still on rookie scale, and ABOUT to make the max. In fact, it looks like there are 46 players who are either on max deals, or about to get max extensions (Ant, LaMelo, Haliburton, Bane), so half the players on max deals didn’t even make the All Star game.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/players.htmlNow, Towns will be getting the supermax, which is about $7 mil more than normal max deals. If Ant gets All NBA, his deal will be $7 mil more, but because of his lesser years of experience, it will be equal to or less than some of the other max deals out there.
To me, I have no trouble saying Towns is one of the best 46 players in the NBA, and I don’t have a problem with the deal. The chance for Minnesota to lock up a player of his caliber, who actually wants to sacrifice to help Minnesota win a ring, makes him worth his deal to us.
Yes, my only issue is the "super". He got that under the old rules and get NBA 3rd team only once is not "super" to me. A couple time on 3rd team is still worth "super" in my opinion.
I get that, but it’s going to get worse for the rest of the NBA. With the new 65-game eligibility requirement for awards, it’s already eliminated Embiid, Kyrie, Beal, LaMelo, Ja, Jimmy Butler, Donovan Mitchell and Porzingas, and Haliburton might miss too. All NBA takes the top 15, so now it will find worse players to replace some of these guys to get to 15. There are going to be players less “super” than Towns that are going to be eligible for supermaxes, and probably expect them.
In addition, every year we will likely see jumps in the salary cap, so max deals next year will begin with a higher initial salary. The supermaxes will obviously be more expensive, but inflation will push standard maxes over Towns salary in a few years. If you don’t expect KAT’s numbers to decline substantially (his final season under contract is age 32), then the deal will be better comparatively simply because it began in a year with a smaller salary cap.
Case in point: Did you realize Rudy Gobert is on a supermax too, and when it began in 2021, it was the largest deal for a center in league history? However, CBA limited raises don’t compete with the rise in the salary cap, so next year, his deal will pay him about $7 mil less than Towns, so it’s more like a newly signed standard max.