This is the walk back I was looking for. I will disregard the “we are going into a raise in the cap that we haven’t seen”. Which I showed you is false.
I said "in recent history", which is true. I even included the table - you think I didn't actually read it?
How is this a walk back when I'm the one supplying the information?
It's been a decade since there was a substantial cap increase over several years.
Or that there was a drastically different contract structures 10 years ago. Which is just out of left field.
We only really have a 10 year sample under the current (2013) CBA.
Prior to that, you had stuff like 15 year contracts signed to average out the AAV, which is a loophole that they closed.
Under the current CBA, you can only sign 8 year contracts on players you exert control over.
Since 2013, you've had (by contract start year):
2014 - 0 8-year contracts
2015 - 2 8-year contracts
2016 - 9 8-year contracts
2017 - 4 8-year contracts
2018 - 7 8-year contracts
2019 - 10 8-year contracts
2020 - 6 8-year contracts
2021 - 6 8-year contracts
2022 - 19 8-year contracts
2023 - 21 8-year contracts (to date) (Sanderson and perhaps others not included in the total as his contract starts next year)
You don't see a different contract structure trend emerging?
There's been almost as many 8-year contracts signed over the last two years as the previous 8 years combined.
TS Quint said:
My only question to those who are adamant that this is such a great contract is compared to what? And heads are exploding over it. Seems a like a guilty conscience.
It's silly for anyone's head to explode over it one way or another. It's not even in force until 2024-2025.
The value of the contract isn't in how good the player was who signed it, but rather how the player plays under the contract.
People call contracts "steals" all the time when they are signed, and they don't always work out that way, and vice versa.