(07-25-2023, 01:05 PM)F Gump Wrote: Depends on how you define "possible." Technically, you could have 15 supermax contracts if you want to pay the massive tax and deal with the CBA ramifications. But as a practical consideration, not so much.
The numbers to do a roster of 2-supermax, with another 6-7 MLE sized contracts to help them, puts a team far over the 2nd apron.
Look at PHX with 2 supermax, a 30% max, a 25% max - basically just a 4-man roster -- and then all they can do is minimum salary. And even with all minimums they are hopelessly over apron 2. Maybe they can make that work, but it sure feels like with no depth, they are an injury here or there from disaster.
Boston will have two supermax deals in 2025-2026. With projected continous rise of the salary cap, the second apron could be over 200 mil by then. Two supermax contracts in 2025-2026 will be roughly 110 mil. This leaves 90 mil for rest of the team.
Edit: corrected the numbers