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

[SleepingHero]

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.

It's  sickening how much these guys are starting to get paid and the primadonna BS they pull. I thought it was crazy back in the days the salary of guys like Kobe/Dirk/KG that were getting paid 25+ mil but figured at the end of the day they were well deserved for their talents. Now we have a 2x all star getting paid 60 mil a year and most people think that's fine because "Boston HAS to just pay market value"

Sure, guys like Lebron, Luka, Tatum, Curry, Giannis, etc. could arguably be worth that much (or even more) but Jaylen Brown...?

Don't get me wrong he's a good player and I'd love to have him on the Mavs but he will never be worth a top 5 contract in the league.