The second apron changes the math a bit, and teams are still adjusting so it remains to be seen how it all works out, but to simplify it I’ll just go off of the structure we’ve know. Obviously this is all an uninformed opinion:
Paul George even in his prime making the same money (adjusted for era) as a prime Bron is an issue, but the root of it is the max contract itself. The value of the max players (cost to replace them combined with value add to the franchise) you listed is much more than what they’re able to make in the CBA they negotiated. The top players should be making baseball money, but the owners don’t wanna spend that bread, so there’s a hard cap on how much they can make. I like the football model better, where there’s a hard cap on the total roster, but beyond rookie scale, you pay what you weigh on an individual level. At least for roster fairness sake.
As I get older, I say fukk a cap and pay em their worth, but I know that would fukk up the parity even further
