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The NBA is about to sign a media rights deal so large that the amount should only be read in Dr. Evil\u2019s voice: 76 billion dollars.<\/p>\n
Roughly half that money is going to the players based on the revenue split dictated in the collective bargaining agreement, which means salaries will skyrocket. Beginning with the 2025-26 season, the expectation is the salary cap will increase annually by the maximum allowable 10%.<\/p>\n
By the end of the decade, the cap should exceed $200 million. Not long after that, annual salaries easily could exceed $100 million as part of $600 million contracts.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve come a long way from the Nets using the amnesty clause on Travis Outlaw in 2012 because his $7 million was too prohibitive.<\/p>\n
So how will this impact the Knicks?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s difficult to predict, but the easiest thing to map out also involves their most important player: Jalen Brunson.<\/p>\n
The star point guard, who is currently recovering from surgery to repair a fractured shooting hand and turns 28 in August, is eligible for an extension this summer.<\/p>\n
Per the CBA, Brunson can sign at 40% above his previous salary with 8% raises annually. That doesn\u2019t even cover inflation nowadays (only half kidding).<\/p>\n
Because Brunson\u2019s current contract descends in salary and pays out roughly $25 million next season, the extension can only max out at approximately four years, $156.5 million.<\/p>\n
It would break down like this:<\/p>\n
2025-26: $35 million2026-27: $38 million2027-28: $41 million2028-29: $43 million<\/p>\n
Considering Brunson\u2019s production and the way it rises in the playoffs, the max extension route leads to an underpay for a player who will be in his 30s when it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n
There are 33 players who are scheduled to earn more than $35 million in 2025-26, and they include:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Desmond Bane\u2022 Michael Porter Jr.\u2022 Darius Garland\u2022 LaMelo Ball\u2022 Trae Young\u2022 Bradley Beal\u2022 DeAndre Ayton<\/p>\n
Brunson is better than all of them.<\/p>\n
So what is his other option?<\/p>\n
Brunson could wait for free agency in 2025, when he\u2019s eligible for a much bigger contract. The exact number is difficult to project because we don\u2019t know the cap number for 2025-26 (and a standard max deal represents 30% of the cap), but, taking into account the massive TV deal raising the cap by 10% annually starting in 2025-26, we\u2019re comfortable calling Brunson\u2019s max a five-year deal worth around $260 million-$270 million.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a hefty difference from the current potential extension. But it\u2019s not a given Brunson goes to free agency.<\/p>\n
During last season, which, it should be noted, was prior to Brunson\u2019s powerful and potentially decision-altering playoff performances, a source said the point guard was at least open to signing an extension.<\/p>\n
And there would be valid reasons.<\/p>\n
The first is the obvious security \u2014 $165 million in hand is worth more than the possibility of $270 million. Second, there\u2019s the long-term math.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s say Brunson signs an extension with an opt-out for the fourth year. At that point in 2028, Brunson will hit free agency with eligibility for a veteran max (35% of the cap) because he just completed his 10th NBA season.<\/p>\n
Brunson\u2019s projected max contract in 2028 would be five years, $419 million. It would start with a $72 million salary.<\/p>\n
It would be a massive number, largely because of the TV windfall getting absorbed into the cap. Indeed, $76 billion\u00a0goes a long way.<\/p>\n
Not taking the easy way out<\/p>\n
Sidwell Friends in Washington D.C. is the school of choice for family members of U.S. presidents, whether it was a Clinton, an Obama, a Biden, a Kennedy, a Nixon or a Roosevelt.<\/p>\n
It was also the high school of Josh Hart, who went there for basketball but found his life path.<\/p>\n
In an interview with \u201cThe Pivot\u201d podcast, Hart detailed why attending such a prestigious and academically challenging school was both difficult and rewarding.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grades were rough. I went to public school my whole life,\u201d Hart said. \u201cPublic school, you turn your stuff in, you get Bs, Cs, whatever. So I\u2019m like freshman year in high school, my GPA was 3.6. I was cool. I was locked in. And then I transferred to Sidwell, and it was like they were speaking a different language with stuff they were learning. I couldn\u2019t comprehend what they were talking about. They were excavating poems and talking about, \u2018This author would put a capital letter here on this word in the middle of the sentence and that means he\u2019s getting the reader to fully comprehend.\u2019 \u2026 And I\u2019m like, \u2018What the hell are you talking about?\u2019 \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSo my grades were bad. And I would take an hour bus ride to school. So I would be up at 6. And first-period English, I\u2019d be falling asleep. \u2026 So after my sophomore year, they were like \u2014 and I think my dad still has the letter \u2014 they gave him a letter, \u2018We think he\u2019ll be more successful elsewhere with his basketball career.\u2019 The thing that was cool is people around me \u2014 my friends, people in the Sidwell community, parents and teachers \u2014 they kind of went to bat for me and said we didn\u2019t give him the proper resources to be successful. They kind of rallied and changed the headmaster\u2019s decision to let me back in. And at that point I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t leave that support structure that went to bat for me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Hart said sticking with Sidwell \u2014 which required a commitment he hadn\u2019t previously attempted \u2014 was his big moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cMontrose Christian School [in Rockville, Md.] was a top-5, top-10 basketball program in the country. That\u2019s kind of where I wanted to go,\u201d Hart said. \u201c\u2026That was the biggest thing. Choosing to stay [at Sidwell] \u2026 at the end of the day it wasn\u2019t just like, \u2018OK, I\u2019m going to stay and have fun.\u2019 It\u2019s, \u2018I know this path isn\u2019t going to be easy.\u2019 I\u2019m going to have to live with another family.<\/p>\n
\u201c[O]n Saturdays, there was a lady named Nikki Bravo who helped me with academics. So I would go from my host family\u2019s house Monday to Friday. Basically all day Saturday, I\u2019m at Nikki Bravo\u2019s house. Sunday, I\u2019m at my parents. And Monday, I\u2019m doing it all over again. \u2026 So it\u2019s a combination of that \u2014 knowing that the road wasn\u2019t going to be easy, but I still chose to do it, chose to go through the adversity head on. And just from my personal life, I probably wouldn\u2019t have my wife. She went to high school with me. My best friends now went to my high school. So if you look at everything in my life, it\u2019s all really based on high school. And based on what happened in high school. And if I made that choice to go to Montrose, my path would have been totally different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence isn\u2019t golden<\/p>\n
Most teams across all professional leagues hold media availabilities after the season. It\u2019s sometimes called baggie day because it immediately follows players cleaning out their lockers. Or garbage bag day. Or exit interview day.<\/p>\n
At some time before or after those interviews, the team\u2019s top executive holds a State of the Union press conference about the team.<\/p>\n
The Knicks, however, don\u2019t do any of that.<\/p>\n
For a sixth straight year, the team made zero players available in the days after elimination. Leon Rose, who has never answered questions by himself to the independent media since being hired in 2020, declined a request from beat writers for a postseason interview.<\/p>\n
Good or bad on the court, at least the front office is consistently silent. But I have two big problems with it:<\/p>\n
1. A lack of transparency turns into a lack of accountability if things don\u2019t go well.<\/p>\n
2. The fans I see applauding the silence on social media are the same fans asking what\u2019s the strategy with OG Anunoby\u2019s free agency, Isaiah Hartenstein\u2019s free agency, Julius Randle\u2019s recovery, the draft, the trade market, Tom Thibodeau\u2019s extension, Brunson\u2019s extension, past trades involving draft picks Obi Toppin, Immanuel Quickley, RJ Barrett and Quentin Grimes. Guess who I\u2019d like to ask those questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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