And of course, this is the first thing that jump to my mind... how it will complicate Golden State keeping Durant & Curry:
Albert Nahmad
Warriors will be able to exceed cap to give Durant 20% raise, to $31.8M. Would need cap room to give him his max though. That’s now ~$33.6M.
Albert Nahmad
The projected 2017-18 salary cap drop from $107M to $102M makes Kevin Durant’s situation particularly interesting.
It's actually potentially better for the Warriors. The lower his max contract would start at, the more likely he is to opt-in to year 2, since there will be less of a difference. Then he can sign a max deal the following year with Early Bird rights, so the Warriors could go above the cap both years to retain everyone. Durant would look better for not re-entering free agency next year. His deal could also get max raises, so he would recoup a little of what he let go next year.
Well, you're talking about a $6M difference. Also,the following year the salary cap is projected to drop even further, so the year to get your big contract is next season.
Anyways, I don't envision Golden State having any problem carving out cap space to keep both Curry and Durant (just looked at the numbers, and man they do it very comfortably).
They do it comfortably if Iggy and Livingston require less than their cap numbers to re-sign. Otherwise, they're in trouble.
I also have zero expectation that the players will allow the salary cap to decrease in any new deal, and there are enough owners who'd be subjected to the luxury tax to go along with that.
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