Do the upcoming cap increases make expiring max deals pointless?

[mmmmm]

For one year only pretty much. Salary room is just going to be too available for absorbing salary to fetch much on the market.

Eventually it will normalize and the value will return.

And so will the awful contracts.   Tough to gauge value & overpays right now but within a couple of years, we'll be back to some pretty awful albatross contracts.  Nature of the beast in the NBA.

Well since we can't have the 7 year deals anymore expirings will never become as valuable as they once were.

4/5 year deals really changed how the league operates.

Well, that will diminish the "trade draft picks for salary cap relief" usage of expiring contracts.   I.E., buy a draft pick by swapping an expiring contract for someone else's bad (or simply bigger) contract.   It doesn't completely eliminate it. 

And it hasn't changed their value as matching salary in trades for players that you actually want.   Arguably, with larger salaries erupting under the blooming cap, in order to match those big new contracts, one is going to need larger 'ballast' contracts on hand.

[KeepRondo]

For one year only pretty much. Salary room is just going to be too available for absorbing salary to fetch much on the market.

Eventually it will normalize and the value will return.

And so will the awful contracts.   Tough to gauge value & overpays right now but within a couple of years, we'll be back to some pretty awful albatross contracts.  Nature of the beast in the NBA.

Well since we can't have the 7 year deals anymore expirings will never become as valuable as they once were.

4/5 year deals really changed how the league operates.

Great point. They should bring back the 7 year contracts. Teams like the Celtics who have a good GM and an owner who doesn't involve himself with player contracts would have a step up.

Would be great to see teams sign players like Allan Houston back in the day and get locked into those terrible contracts.

Haha, the Knicks did such a terrible job with the Allan Houston contract that the league came up with a rule that allowed teams to get out of those terrible contracts, informally called it the "Allan Houston Rule", and the Knicks STILL didn't use it on Allan Houston!  Good times. 

And while it probably helps the game overall it is kinda, sorta sad that teams are so much more protected from themselves these days.  It was fun to see bad front offices screw themselves over so thoroughly.

The best part is the Knicks still suck. It's just too bad they couldn't have given Amare a 7 year contract when they signed him in 2010.