07-16-2025, 07:19 PM
The massive buyouts make a lie of the idea that "even if you overpay a player badly, you can always trade him." With a hard cap, which LIMITS spending as a whole by the league, you can get stuck. Sometimes the best deal you make now is when you say no, and let a player walk.
I think LAC was a bit ahead of the curve in figuring it out, when they let Paul George simply walk. That seems like a no-no, to lose talent, but if your talent isn’t going to be held at a cap-efficient price, it's a killer in how it lowers your ceiling.
I think teams are going to be forced to rethink the value of players getting a supermax. The value of a max player was in getting someone whose salary is limited and he was worth more, but with a supermax AND an overall spending limit, can that supermax player whose salary now eats up so much of a limited pie really be worth more than their contract?
Thats one of my concerns with AD. With his limited availability, can he ever be worth the amount of your overall cap he will get?
I think LAC was a bit ahead of the curve in figuring it out, when they let Paul George simply walk. That seems like a no-no, to lose talent, but if your talent isn’t going to be held at a cap-efficient price, it's a killer in how it lowers your ceiling.
I think teams are going to be forced to rethink the value of players getting a supermax. The value of a max player was in getting someone whose salary is limited and he was worth more, but with a supermax AND an overall spending limit, can that supermax player whose salary now eats up so much of a limited pie really be worth more than their contract?
Thats one of my concerns with AD. With his limited availability, can he ever be worth the amount of your overall cap he will get?
![[-]](https://www.mavsboard.com/images/collapse.png)