The bad news is in that regard teams are going to overbid for free agents. Overpay mediocre players and drive the price of players up.
The good news is the league is still set up where there are going to be a lot of very good players on cheap contracts and rookie deals. We also have the ability to build our team any way we want and pay to keep players or replace them for other better talent that fits us.
Teams can go out there and pay guys 4 max contracts on their team but every team is going to have cap space and there are only so many players worth that.
The salary cap is relative in that regard. There are going to be a lot of underpaid and overpaid players in the league though. The cap goes up teams just start paying more.
But from a basketball sense we can still build this any way we want. There is no urgency that way.
If teams were smart they'd more treat the cap that way and just build their teams from a basketball perspective like the cap isn't even there.
Players aren't necessarily a bargain or overpaid. With the cap as high as it is, it's more just how you are trying to build your team.
Unfortunately a lot of players and teams won't treat it that way and there will be drama and players that think they deserve whatever because they are paid whatever but the celtics just need to protect themselves from that stuff.