01-08-2024, 02:37 PM
The league is wide open and a player like Siakam could make many teams far more likely to get a ring than without him. So at the end of the day a team may balk at the price and sign a lesser player at 70 % of the cost. But that lesser player might just not be good enough to get a ring. This is a risk you take, because a competitor will sign the guy and have a better player. Of course every team signing Siakam will be locked with him, hoping it will work. This is a risk you take. If they win a ring, nobody will care they gave him a max deal. If they don't succeed, they will be stuck and probably in need of a rebuild in a couple of years. But, only one team wins it each year. What we have seen is that top contenders still invest everything possible to create as good as team as possible. High salaries, most picks traded. This is a price to have a good chance. And not all of them succeed. But it still is a price you have to pay.