If the NBA and NBAPA handle things correctly, everyone could be a winner in the new $24 billion television rights deal the league signed with ESPN and Turner.
According to Bleacher Report, LeBron James could become the first $34 million a season player in leagues history.
Team owners will collect $70 million apiece in 2016-17, more than doubling their current take, according to an NBA source.
General managers will enjoy spectacular payroll flexibility as the salary cap leaps to an estimated $84 million in 2016-17.
Players, in the aggregate, could enjoy a 33 percent increase in salaries in the next two years.
LeBron James could soon become the NBA’s first $34 million player.
The current collective bargaining agreement runs through 2021, but either side can opt out in 2017, and the players are almost certain to do so.
If you thought NBA teams were stacked before, wait until the league does away with the maximum salary cap structure altogether.