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LeBron's final year of his contract is a player option for $22,112,500.

That would make him the second highest paid player in the NBA this season.

 

So what is the point of your post exactly? You say LeBron isn't getting paid close to the max when he really is.

ESPN:

He is making $15mil less over the life of the contract and Florida doesn't even charge a state income tax.

 

Thanks. He is getting close to the max, but Dwade actually took the biggest paycut out of the big 3.

 

Yes. Obviously comparing players that have been in the league 10+ years with Lebron(7 years, opt out too early for the best raises) by their salary means that Lebron doesn't make near max. And who the hell says Miami have the league's highest payroll?

I don't know what's worse. The fact that your post is uninformative to anyone with knowledge of the CBA? Or that it's misleading to anyone without understanding of the CBA.

 

useless thread is useless

the sole reason you started this thread is because one poster said something about Lebron's salary, now you have to be all defensive and get your panties up in a bunch.

Lebron's earning the max, the first year of his max, therefore it is lower than Yao's and Carter's who's at the end of their max contract. Tell us something we don't know.

 

This is a stupid thread.

The way the current CBA works, even if Lebron had taken the absolute max going to Miami, he still would have been low on the list because the max is determined by how long you have been in the league. Lebron - being one of the youngest stars doesn't have the years of service under his belt to get a max like let's say Kobe. This is why young stars are so valuable because though they make "the max" their max is less than the max of older stars who might not be as productive.

Same thing with the Heat's place on the list of franchise salaries. The Heat can only spend up to the salary cap and the only way they can go over that is by using exceptions like the MLE(that is only available once you have no more wiggle room under the cap). When they say there is a soft cap, they mean there is a real cap, but there are exceptions that allow you to go over and take on more salaries. That's why they had to gut the roster and trade everyone for expirings to sign Wade/Lebron/Bosh because they couldn't just sign them outright even if they had unlimited funds because FA doesn't work that way. Give the Heat a few years of maxing out their exceptions(something they will certainly do given this roster) and they will be right there are the top. You may ask how teams like LA, Dallas, and Orlando have managed to go so far over the cap - the answer is they used every exception they could over several years to go way into the luxury tax threshold and then they have flipped several of those smaller 6/7mil deals via trade for players worth twice that.

 

The max for Kobe who has stayed with the team with his Bird's rights and has been in the league for longer than Lebron is different than the max for Lebron.

You can't compare raw salaries as the max is dependent on bird's rights and how long you've been in the league

 

Rockets are number 7 and look at their results.

Is money ball working?

 

Considering Yao and before him Tmac's contract were mostly paid for by insurance companies and at least for Yao they received a disabled player exception which I believe provided them some tax relief I would say Houston's out of pocket spend the last few years has been significantly less than what that list reports.

 

lebron and wade took a paycut so bosh gets paid about same

 

7, 9, & 10 on the top 10 payrolls are failures..

us, the bucks and the sixers

 

OKC is in for a bright future...

 

There's a new troll in town.

 

Well their payroll is gonna increase.