Owners Opt out of Collective Bargaining Agreement

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Originally Posted by papabear

Here's the NBA's rookie salary scale. Only the first two years are guaranteed. After that it's a team option (although almost no one give up on a high pick after 2 years.)

http://www.mynbadraft.com/NBA-Rookie-Salary-Scale-2007


According to this the first pick from last year will make about 18 million over the first four seasons. Matt Ryan just got 34 million gauranteed. There's a list of NBA guys making 13 to 20 million, but These are vets who are given "max" deals as determined by a percentage of the salary cap....at least I think that is how they coe up with the max numbers.

Compared to the NFL the NBA does a much better job of slotting rookies, and making sure the veterans who have paid there dues....get paid.

i think paying the #1 pick 18 million for four years sounds a whole lot better than the 34 million guarenteed, plus the rest of the contract if you hold onto the guy. could just be me though. seems like the negative impact of a bust would be much lower that way.