Vorkunov: It’s time we start discussing NBA contracts in a different way
It’s late July, and NBA free agency is all but over. In 2019, Julius Randle signed a contract that paid him $18 million in the first year — 16.5 percent of that season’s cap. If the contract declines with each season while the cap goes up, as the Knicks did with Mitchell Robinson’s four-year, $60 million deal signed last summer, that makes the contract look better. Consider the players who signed contracts that started for roughly $15 million in Year 1 of the deal: The $15 Million Player Year-By-Year Season Salary Comp 2014-15 Dwyane Wade 2016-17 Pau Gasol 2018-19 Trevor Ariza 2020-21 Davis Bertans 2022-23 Tyus Jones 2023-24 Caris LeVert Tying player contracts to a percentage of the cap instead of the salary itself might be the simplest way to conceptually deal with already ballooning salaries that will only grow bigger in years to come. He’ll make $27.59 million in the first season of that deal, according to a league source — 20.28 percent of the cap.
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