Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

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Tough to judge contracts nowadays.  Supposedly premium contracts are going to explode with the new cba.  There may be some 100 million dollar players during this new cba.  It is going to be interesting when a star is making close to a 100 million per year but a good player is only getting MLE numbers. I interesting locker room dynamics.

It's all relative. Each year, the size of every level of pay is now designed to stay the same percentage relative to each other. Max players get 25, 30 or 35% of the cap, and an MLE player gets a bit under 10%. But yes, we can rest assured that ALL of them will end up thinking they are getting the short end of the stick, even though they are all getting lottery-jackpot-sized payouts of varying sizes year after year.