With the NBA salary cap expected to rise to $100 million in a few years, who are the teams that will benefit most from it?
At the NBA Board of Governor’s meetings, the league informed teams that a significant rise in the salary cap is coming.
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The NBA has a $24 billion television contract coming and as a result, the cap is going up across the board.
The current cap for this year was $63 million and by 2016-2017 it will be $89 million. If that jump isn’t crazy enough, the cap is expected to hit $108 million for the 2017-2018 season.
With such a large increase in the cap, contracts will rise and star players such as LeBron James, Kevin Durant and others could be making $30 million a year on average when the cap increases.
With such a large increase to the salary cap, and teams having lots of money to spend, which teams will be able to take advantage of the new salary cap the most?
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