Have the Orlando Magic helped Deandre Jordan's next deal?

NBAfan3024 · Post #1 » by **NBAfan3024** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:17 pm

Magic give Vucevic four-year $54 million extension, source tells Yahoo

So max contract coming for Jordan next summer?

mttwlsn16 · Post #2 » by **mttwlsn16** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:22 pm

He will def get a max

Det the Threat · Post #3 » by **Det the Threat** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:47 pm

That's $13.5 mil a year for a 23 year old who just put up 14/11.
He's also pretty good offensively and can be in there late in games, cause he's able to hit a free throw.

So I'm not sure why anyone would think that Jordan would get more then that.

Post #4 » by **mkwest** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:16 pm

It's been pretty evident that DJ was going to get a hike in pay when he becomes a free-agent. The Max (or close to it) has been suspected for him, especially with the cap expected to soar in upcoming years. Teams would be willing to pay more now than have to pay way more later.

Vuc's per year average is pretty high when you look at it right now. It's more than the likes of Noah, Horford, Ibaka, Gortat, Pekovic and DJ are currently making. However, with the increase in the salary cap, it's going to be solid in comparison to what others will be making.

If the salaries of players under contract at the time of the new deal kicking in remain the same, then we need to be thankful that DJ will be a free-agent before the new money goes into effect. For this current season, DJ's salary is worth ~18% of the salary cap. If he ends up making around $18-20m per for his next deal, then that would put him around ~23% of the salary cap when the new tv money is implemented in 2016. That's not the end of the world imo.

I'd prefer if what he agreed to were less, but I'm not going to get my hopes for that.

LACtdom · Post #5 » by **LACtdom** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:09 pm

I hope we don't pay anything over $14m for a shot blocker & rebounder. I don't care if the salary cap is going to jump, we'd still have a rudy gay contract on our hands. If DJ doesn't keep improving then it will be even worse as he relies heaviliy on his athleticism not talent and therefore the longer into his contract the harder it will be for him to battle father time and the more we will be paying him.

Post #6 » by **mkwest** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:44 pm

LACtdom wrote:I hope we don't pay anything over $14m for a shot blocker & rebounder. I don't care if the salary cap is going to jump, we'd still have a rudy gay contract on our hands. If DJ doesn't keep improving then it will be even worse as he relies heaviliy on his athleticism not talent and therefore the longer into his contract the harder it will be for him to battle father time and the more we will be paying him.

Keep this in mind....

The early projection for the 2015-16 salary cap is $66.5M. If the Clippers were to waive Crawford & Barnes of their partially guaranteed contracts, not re-sign Jordan and have Davis opt out, we'd only have about $3M in cap space if those numbers were to hold up. Add another 2.3M in cap space if Bullock's option weren't picked up and Farmar opted out.

Post #7 » by **mkwest** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:47 pm

The current national TV contracts reportedly pay $930 million per season. For these purposes, I assume that’s an exact amount each season.

Of the $24 billion coming in the new national TV contracts, the NBA is slated to receive $2.1 billion the first year and $3.1 billion the last year, according to Zach Lowe of Grantland. As far as those middle seven years, I use straight $125 million annual increases to bridge the gap between $2.1 billion and $3.1 billion. That still leaves us $600 million short of the contract’s total value, so that $600 million was applied equally across the deal’s middle seven years.

What about other revenue?

If the current national TV contracts pay a constant $930 million, the NBA – based on its current salary cap and projected 2015-16 salary cap – is predicting a 6.6% increase in other revenue from this season to next. I apply that 6.6% growth in non-national-TV revenue for each future season. Maybe that’s too low – the increase from last season to this season was 9.8%, and the league’s early cap projections tend to be conservative – but I have little data on the NBA’s revenue streams, and I’m using 6.6%.

Here’s what all that would mean for the salary cap –a with this and past season’s actual cap, the NBA’s projection for 2015-16 and my projections for future seasons. Years under the current national TV contract are blue, future national TV contracts orange.

Dan Feldman, NBC Sports

This only one man's estimate and nothing is set into stone. Zach Lowe also touches on the future and it's worth the read.