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Originally Posted by FlyWf
The cap is going to be 109 million next year and 29 teams don't win the title each and every year.
This offseason has been very quiet because everyone is saving space for next year, so it seems like a distant memory that teams were giving our nearmax deals to Tim Hardaway Jr and Timofey Mozgov, but that **** happened, and it'll happen again.
Well THJ/Moz and other bums getting 15-20m's in FA happened because of massive cap spikes over the last 3 years. While the cap is going to continue to go up, nothing like that is ever really happening again.
8th men will not be making 15-20% of the cap going forward.
Also, 1 thing people seem to say a lot is that cap space is going to be plentiful next year. But it really isn't. It's mostly just the Lakers and rebuilding teams will have cap space, none of which seem to be ideal suitors for Love.
Pacers and Jazz will have cap space as well but it isn't going to be anything close to a 2016 style bonanza. Those days are over for the mid-low end FA's. Superstars and all stars making 35-45m a year instead of 20m is going to take a lot of $ from those mid-tier guys going forward.