You can re-sign players that you acquired on draft night for any amount of money, but if it’s above the max, it only counts as a max contract on your cap. If the player is traded, their salary reduces to the max. This means that a superstar player gets a bonus for staying with their original team, but loses the bonus if they get moved.

This promotes front offices lying to players and actively costing them tens of millions of dollars

It would still promote the 10th worst team to throw their remaining 10 games to improve draft odds which is the bulk of the tanking people hate

There are no fast breaks at the end of games anyways

Most fans won’t be able to afford $200 nosebleeds, $100 parking, $50 beers, $20 hotdogs & pretzels.

NBA money doesn’t come from any of this, it comes from the TV deals the league signs. However with how inflated the streaming market for sports is I wouldn’t be surprised if it stagnates soon

“AI would be the greatest shooting guard if his biggest weakness didn’t exist” yeah no shit you can say that for every player

AD was traded for BI, Zo, Hart, and three picks.

Last year of contract

Harden was traded for Simmons, Curry, Drummond, and two picks.

Old and 1.5 years left on contract (before tampering happened)

Kyrie was traded for DFS, Dinwiddie, and a pick.

Last year of contract

Kawhi was traded for DeMar, Poeltl, and a pick.

Last year of contract

Jimmy was traded for LaVine, Dunn, and a pick. He was also traded for RoCo, Dario Šarić and Jerryd Bayless.

2 years left on contract and a rental

Gee, I wonder what most of these trades have in common