Could a $100 million annual NBA player salary be coming? Plus, the new CBA goes into effect

As the NBA closes in on a new media rights deal, much of the attention has been on what it means for the league and its teams. That’s assuming a salary cap of $141 million next season, as the league currently projects, and then 10 percent cap-raises after that. For example, a player in the first year of his supermax contract, which pays 35 percent of the cap, could make as much as $105.79 million during the 2032-33 season — that’s double the league-high $51.9 million Stephen Curry made this season. Projected NBA Supermax Contracts Season Projected Cap 35% Max Salary Supermax Deal 24-25 $141 million $49.35 million $286.23 million 25-26 $155.1 million $54.29 million $314.85 million 26-27 $170.61 million $59.71 million $346.34 million 27-28 $187.671 million $65.68 million $380.97 million 28-29 $206.438 million $72.25 million $419.07 million 29-30 $227.082 million $79.48 million $460.98 million 30-31 $249.79 million $87.43 million $507.07 million 31-32 $274.769 million $96.17 million $557.78 million 32-33 $302.246 million $105.79 million $613.56 million Those numbers could be overly generous, of course. If a team pulls off a trade between the end of the regular season and the start of the new cap year with a maneuver that is not allowed for teams above the first or second apron, then that team will be hard-capped for the rest of the current salary cap year and the next one.