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Russell Westbrook Is Really Worth $344 Million, And Other Tales Of The NBA’s New Salary Cap
The NBA free-agent period is underway, and that means it’s time to gawk at the contracts flying around under the league’s gigantic new TV-money-infused salary cap. FiveThirtyEight’s updated CARMELO projections, which this year are based on Box Plus/Minus, provide predictions for both how well a player will play in the coming years and how much […]
Russell Westbrook Is Really Worth $344 Million, And Other Tales Of The NBA’s New Salary Cap
The NBA free-agent period is underway, and that means it’s time to gawk at the contracts flying around under the league’s gigantic new TV-money-infused salary cap. FiveThirtyEight’s updated CARMELO projections, which this year are based on Box Plus/Minus, provide predictions for both how well a player will play in the coming years and how much […]
Kawhi Leonard Needs A Raise Even Though He Just Got One
Today in an article on FiveThirtyEight, I wrote about how the value of NBA free agents may change as the salary cap increases dramatically in upcoming seasons. In recent seasons, the players who used to be bargains were beginning to cost more — but that trend may flip-flop again as the cap rises ever higher. […]