Wood You Consider Spending Over the First Apron

[Jym]

Maybe a couple of reasons:

1. He's overpaid by $15m / year.  Big, negative contract vs. on-court production.  Think Bertans, but twice as much money.

2. The new CBA really, really penalizes under-performing contracts.  You can't just overpay players and build a contender.  It requires a new kind of finesse.  Essentially, Ayton's contract is severely hampering any hope of improving their roster.

By that talk I was expecting his contract to max out at like 45 million or something 
30 mil this year and 35.5 mil in 25-26 
Maybe I'm crazy but that seems perfectly reasonable for a 18/10 big man with more than adequate defense. Actually one of the better defending big men that can score