Is the rising cap killing the trade market?

[86MaxwellSmart]

Let everyone else give up....Danny won't

[wdleehi]

This is most likely a two to three year aberration. The new television deal was the cause of the massive salary cap hike and another deal like that isn't coming around for a while so for a couple years things will play out differently than they had before. But once teams overspend like crazy this year and next and pay middle of the road talent exorbitant salaries and max out their cap, things will go back to being the way they have in the past. Once the cap starts increasing in only minor increments, we will see financially based trades becoming an important way to build teams once more

I agree somewhat.

I do think that players and teams have become savvier, and that we will see fewer of the really bad cap-killing deals that used to be so integral at the deadline for various reasons.

I don't know. The owners locked out the players because they couldn't control their own spending ways. Now the have to spend at minimum $90 million per team as early as the 2017-18 season. The owners will be spending freely once more and players are going to get paid way more than they should. It's going to happen.

Contracts are about to get out of whack again.  There will be over-payments.


Smart teams will make one year over-payments.  Like the Celtics did this year with Amir. 

[saltlover]

This is most likely a two to three year aberration. The new television deal was the cause of the massive salary cap hike and another deal like that isn't coming around for a while so for a couple years things will play out differently than they had before. But once teams overspend like crazy this year and next and pay middle of the road talent exorbitant salaries and max out their cap, things will go back to being the way they have in the past. Once the cap starts increasing in only minor increments, we will see financially based trades becoming an important way to build teams once more

I agree somewhat.

I do think that players and teams have become savvier, and that we will see fewer of the really bad cap-killing deals that used to be so integral at the deadline for various reasons.

I don't know. The owners locked out the players because they couldn't control their own spending ways. Now the have to spend at minimum $90 million per team as early as the 2017-18 season. The owners will be spending freely once more and players are going to get paid way more than they should. It's going to happen.

Contracts are about to get out of whack again.  There will be over-payments.


Smart teams will make one year over-payments.  Like the Celtics did this year with Amir.

Smart teams with rich owners will make a long-term overpayment in anticipation of an amnesty clause with a new CBA.  If the player works out, great! If not, oh well, not my money