In advance of an unprecedented salary-cap explosion this summer, the NBA has (unofficially) turned to Oprah as inspiration for its (totally unsanctioned) free-agent slogan.
You get a max contract! You get a max contract! You get a max contract! Everybody gets a max contract!
Or, um, maybe not. As Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban cautioned, per ESPN.com's Tim MacMahon:
Every player thinks it's just going to be a money train this summer. There's a lot of money; there's not THAT much money...And I think there's going to be teams that save their money for next year, because it's a better free agent class. People just presume now that everybody's going to get paid a lot of money, and it'll be interesting to see if that happens.
Cuban might be right in some cases, but the league's salary cap is jumping by more than $20 million. Insane contracts are bound to surface, even with a stronger class awaiting in 2017, when the cap takes another leap. That's why players such as Harrison Barnes and Chandler Parsons have entered the max-contract discussion. And it's also why other under-the-radar talents will emerge as max-deal candidates ...
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