Cavs: Tristan Thompson settles for 3 yrs/$ 53 million contract

[Seventyniner]

It doesn't really hinder them..while it's correct that they are overpaid, they are all relatively young and playing in an atrocious conference, their window will be open for years and they will benefit from continuity, too..

So do you think LeBron will pull the ultimate troll job and leave the Cavs once they're capped out for seasons to come? Then Gilbert will be paying well into 9 figures for a borderline 2nd round team in the East.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Sauces. With that said, it's amazing 10 and 8 will get you 17M. Barkley and Malone were born too early.

Nah, you're looking at nominal figures. They made high 7 digit per year figures but you have to remember that food and similar things are now roughly three to four times as expensive as it was back in their playing days. The average middle-class adult paid $2,000 per year to eat back in 1995, and now pays over $8k.

[HarlemHeat37]

So do you think LeBron will pull the ultimate troll job and leave the Cavs once they're capped out for seasons to come? Then Gilbert will be paying well into 9 figures for a borderline 2nd round team in the East.

Could happen, but I doubt it..I think he genuinely believes they are loaded enough to compete even if his minutes decline with age and he begins to conserve himself more during the RS..

That team has a wide open window in a ty conference, there's no team in the East that appears to be anywhere near them or that appears to have significant potential in the future..