FA: Mavs Extend Hardy! | 3yrs/18mil

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Guys, $6M is going to almost be a rounding error in a few years.

Putting on my, very amateur, salary cap propellor beanie...

In round numbers, the cap is at $141M this season, but is expected to increase at about 10% annually through the end of the decade, which means it will be at ~$171M in two years and ~$206M two years after that.

And that's just the salary cap, in two years the 1st apron moves up to ~$215M and the second up to ~$228M.

I don't think MBT is sweating whether Hardy's getting overpaid in his extension.

Based my calculations on a Forbes article from last summer. Interesting how the cap growth will devalue even supermax contracts over time.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryantopore...tructures/

I've heard this claim made on all kinds of questionable deals, and respectfully, I think it's erroneous.

The Mavs will NOT be bestowed with spending room that will make overpays irrelevant. Instead, the looming increase in cap will be eaten up by increases in all contracts. The cap crunch of hard caps will be there. Every max and MLE contract will rise with the cap. Every overpay will hurt. 

I accept the idea this is perhaps calculated risk-reward, with the possible reward being the TO year. But I don't buy that there will be so much cap room it won't matter. 

The 1st year of this deal will be one in which Mavs must negotiates MANY new deals. They all want more money. What is done at the edge will matterr. Imo.