Since then, Durant has signed another max extension of four years worth $198 million that keeps him with the franchise until the 2025-26 season Los Angeles Lakers
He joined the duo of Kevin Durant (four years, $164 million) and Kyrie Irving (four years, $136 million) on the roster, both of whom agreed to max deals with the Nets as free agents in 2019. The shooting guard was already a max player, courtesy of a supermax extension over four years that he agreed to with the Texas franchise back in 2017. The Brooklyn Nets became the second team to have three max players on their roster when they acquired James Harden from the Houston Rockets in Jan. 1 pick from the 2014 NBA Draft, was already on a 5-year $147.7 million max contract that he signed in the 2017 offseason. Since then, the two-time league MVP has signed another extension upwards of $200 million worth $215m over four years that kicks in from the 2022-23 season.Īt the 2019-20 trade deadline, the Warriors traded Russell along with Jacob Evans and Omari Spellman in exchange for Andrew Wiggins, a protected 2021 first-round pick and a 2021 second-round pick to the Timberwolves. The duo joined Stephen Curry, who was already on his max deal of 5 years and $201.2 million that he signed in 2017.
It came together when they signed Klay Thompson to his 5-year $189.9 million max deal and then acquired D'Angelo Russell in a sign-and-trade, that sent Kevin Durant to the Brooklyn Nets, on a max contract worth four years and $117 million. The Warriors were one of the first NBA franchise to have three max players on their roster, forming the club in the 2019 offseason. That number has jumped to five entering the 2021-22 season, so here's a look at those teams: Golden State Warriors First, it was two midway through the 2010s but towards the end of that decade, we saw the first team to have three max players on the roster. That inflated cap has allowed teams to hold multiple max players on their roster. MORE: All players with contracts upwards of $200 million These salary camp increases, including the biggest jump prior to the 2016-17 season which saw the cap jump to $94 million after being just at $70 million the prior season - an outcome of the money from the league's new TV deal (worth $2.6 billion per year over a nine-year period) kicking-in - has seen the cap go from around $58 million for the 2011-12 season to $$112 million for the 2021-22 season. Over the recent years, the NBA's salary cap has ballooned and is expected to continue doing so.īarring the 2020-21 season, when there was no change in the salary cap from the previous year - an economic consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic - the salary cap has seen a spike in the range of five to eight million dollars each year since 2014, according to Real GM.
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