$420 million in 5 years! The NBA will produce a star with an annual salary of $90 million, and Doncic is looking to make history

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2024-06-01 22:29Posted in Shandong Sports Creators

Entering the Finals stage this season, the teams that finally stood out in the East and West were the Celtics and the Mavericks. The Celtics' starting five configuration is guaranteed at the Finals level, while the Mavericks counterattack all the way is unexpected. The fact that giant teams such as the Suns, Clippers, and Lakers stopped in the first round confirms that the NBA is accelerating its replacement, and a new batch of Mesozoic and new generation stars are gradually taking the lead. And they also caught up with the good times, because the new broadcast contract finalized by the NBA will exceed $7 billion a year in broadcast rights alone! What does this mean? In the words of salary expert Kate Smith, with the gradual increase in the attention of the NBA and the league locking in a 10% annual salary cap increase, players have officially entered the era of salary explosion!

Last summer, Jaylen Brown and the Celtics reached a five-year, $304 million super cap contract, which has set a new record in NBA history, and Brown has more than $10 million more than O'Neal's total career income ($292 million) on this contract! And historical celebrities like Kobe and Garnett, their total income on the court will not even catch up with a maximum salary contract for some ordinary stars in the league today! Curry is the first player in NBA history to exceed $50 million in annual salary, but by the 26-27 season, including Lillard ($63.23 million), Brother Alphabet ($62.21 million), and Thick Eyebrows ($62.21 million) will easily break the $60 million mark! This summer, Tatum renewed his contract ahead of schedule with a five-year, $315 million super-cap salary, and will continue to break records!

Thunder's Alexander, ranked second on the MVP list this season, led the team to the first place in the West in the regular season, stopped in the playoffs in the division semifinals, averaged 30.1 points, 5.5 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game in the regular season, and averaged 30.2 points, 6.4 rebounds and 6.4 assists per game in the playoffs$70.94 million + $76.19 million + $81.45 million! That is, in the 30-31 season, Alexander's salary will break through the $80 million mark, becoming the first Mr. 80 million in NBA history! And Doncic, who led the team to the Finals, had two previous contracts, a rookie contract of 4 years and $32.46 million, and a 5-year $207 million early extension in the summer of 21!

By next offseason, Doncic will be selected as the best team for 5 consecutive years, and he can get a super cap salary of $346 million for up to 5 years, which will directly greatly increase Tatum's all-time record! According to US media calculations, the NBA's salary cap has increased by 10% every year, and the team's core can get the maximum contract salary with a starting salary cap * 0.35, and in the 28-29 season, after the salary cap cap exceeds $200 million, the salary in the first year of the maximum salary contract will be $72 million, and the salary in the fifth year will reach $95 million, totaling 420 million in five years! And like Haliburton, Edwards, and Three-Ball who completed the maximum five-year $260 million salary extension with the team last summer, as long as they have personal honors, they will all have a high probability of getting an epic super maximum salary contract!

Looking at it this way, Brown's five-year $304 million + Tatum's five-year $315 million contract is not expensive, just because they have been with the Celtics and have enough personal honors to have the conditions to get a super cap salary. But then again, the stars who have risen in recent years, including the younger Maxey, Wembanyama, Banchero and others, will be able to surpass their NBA predecessors and make money for a lifetime with a contract with a maximum salary in the future! In the words of salary expert Bobby Marks, Anunoby, who helped the Knicks reach the division semifinals, may have a market price of between $35 million and $40 million this summer, and the level of more than $30 million is no longer a contract only enjoyed by supergiants! In this way, it is understandable that Paul George sought a super cap salary of $210 million for 4 years at the end of his career.

In the NBA's all-time salary list, Lao Zhan ranks first, but his total career salary is $532 million, the second Durant, with a total career salary of $501 million, the third thick eyebrows, with a total career salary of $497 million, the fourth Curry, with a total career salary of $473 million, and the fifth place is already Jaylen Brown's $431 million! The American media calculated that because Doncic entered the league at the age of 19, and before the age of 25, he had already received a total of $240 million in contracts, as long as he signed the next five-year $346 million contract, he could surpass James, and the key Doncic as long as he remained healthy and had no particularly serious injury problems, he could at least sign two more contracts at the super maximum salary level, and the total career contract would break $1 billion! And Doncic has a chance to hit the James 411 milestone!

This can only be said that the predecessors planted trees and the later people enjoyed the shade. In the past few decades, the NBA has made the world know the NBA through Jordan, and the world has fallen in love with the NBA through Kobe and James, and when it is really time to enjoy the fruits of victory, even James + Curry + Durant should retire from the stage of history. From the 25-26 season, basically every team in the league will have Mr. 50 million dollars, whether it is worth it or not is one thing, the key is that these young people can easily get a big contract, and will they fight so desperately for championship glory when the time comes?

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