Salary cap could rise above 100 mill in 2017

[djohn2oo8]

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12711616/teams-told-nba-salary-cap-hit-100m-2017-18-season

[djohn2oo8]

At this week's NBA Board of Governors meetings in New York, teams were advised ‎that the league's salary cap could rise past the $100 million mark as soon as the 2017-18 season, according to league sources.


Commissioner Adam Silver and the league have stressed to teams that cap projections are based on the NBA and its players avoiding a work stoppage after the 2016-17 season.*Steven Freeman/Getty Images
Sources told ESPN.com that based on current projections, league officials expect the salary cap to increase from its current $63.1 million figure to $67.1 million next season, $89 million in 2016-17 and $108 million in 2017-18. The jumps represent massive increases largely triggered by the influx of television money that will begin pouring in after the 2015-16 season when the NBA's new nine-year, $24 billion TV deal kicks in.

[AlexJones]

Warriors are going to have Klay, Curry and Green locked up for only like 40% of the cap

[Venti Quattro]

The jumps represent massive increases largely triggered by the influx of television money that will begin pouring in after the 2015-16 season when the NBA's new nine-year, $24 billion TV deal kicks in.

Yay, stupid GMs have more money to overpay dumb players.

[AlexJones]

Oh and looks like Kobe will stick around for another couple of years lol

[Malik Hairston]

Oh and looks like Kobe will stick around for another couple of years lol

:lol Kobe and Rondo on max deals in Lakers jerseys next year, tbh..

[TDMVPDPOY]

lol shit cunts from bench rotation 6th man to last man is going to get paid double for the same or lesser production

the product is shit, overpaying shit kents to perform next tier when they are not...

nba is actually not a league made up of 400 of the best players in the world, theres at leasts 150-200 players have no business touchin a ball

[barbacoataco]

Won't this just make it harder for small market teams to compete?

[Clipper Nation]

Ballmer in 2017:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/c9f565c78891bf72b47748fe1e22d0ec/tumblr_mfy0iuTtQb1qjdr19o10_r3_250.gif

[spurraider21]

:lol clippers

[Clipper Nation]

:lol clippers

:lol Raiders
:lol Actually have cap space every year and can't even give their money away

[spurraider21]

:lol Raiders
:lol Actually have cap space every year and can't even give their money away
:lol raiders have been terrible for a decade
:lol resorting to comparing your team to the raiders just to feel better