NBA value is a tricky variable to sort out, especially this year.
The league's new national TV deal with ESPN and Turner (Bleacher Report's parent company) will send the salary cap soaring north of $90 million and take player contracts along for the ride, according to USA Today's Jeff Zillgitt. What a "good" or "bad" value looks like will change dramatically this summer and again in 2017, when the cap spikes for the second straight year—presumably into the $110 million range.
Ultimately, a player's take will be largely set in stone relative to the cap itself. The NBA, more than any other major professional sports league, sets strict boundaries for what its players can make based on individual service time and standardized team economics, among other things.
But while most—if not all—of this year's free agents will pop eyes with the sizes of their new deals, the five guys below could be the biggest winners at their respective positions based on what they could earn compared to what makes sense given their potential impacts—good, bad and otherwise—on prospective empl ...
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Article written by Josh Martin