eto ata yan so every year bagong contract para lagi me increase.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/report--lebron-james-opts-out-of-final-year-of-contract--will-enter-free-agency-193123038.htmlThis was a widely anticipated move, one that many have seen as a simple matter of course ever since James and his representatives negotiated an opt-out clause into the two-year, $42.2 million contract he accepted to rejoin the Cavaliers after spending four seasons with the Miami Heat. Cavaliers general manager David Griffin said during his season-ending news conference that he expected both James and power forward Kevin Love to exercise their rights to tear up the final years of their deals and enter the free-agent market. Love did so earlier this week.
For one thing, with the salary cap projected to rise to $67.1 million for the 2015-16 season, the starting maximum salary next season for a player with as much service time as 12-year veteran James slots in just under $22.1 million. Opting out and signing a new deal, then, allows James to pick up an extra $1.5 million or so for nothing, and would give him a higher starting salary off of which to base the year-over-year raises he'd receive if he were to sign a multi-year deal.
LeBron is not making decisions solely over that comparatively small sum, though; rather, he's making them based on the flexibility that opting out affords.
If James goes for a carbon copy of the deal he signed last summer — a two-year pact with the first year fully guaranteed and a player option for the second — he opens up the option of re-entering free agency again in the summer of 2016. That's when the influx of new money from the NBA's massive new nine-year, $24 billion broadcast rights deal will inflate the salary cap to a projected $89 million. The first year of a maximum-salary contract is based on a set percentage of the cap rather than a straight dollar amount, meaning that as the salary cap rises, so does the value of the max; in this case, the spike would bump LeBron's first-year max up to an estimated $29.3 million.
If he wants to keep the good times rolling with one-and-one contracts, James could then opt to once again hit the market in 2017, when the cap is expected to hit an unprecedented $108 million, which would push James' '17-'18 max salary up to a whopping $35.5 million. That would be the highest single-season player salary in NBA history, topping Michael Jordan's $33 million deal to play for the Chicago Bulls during the 1997-98 season. And so on, and so on.
Going year-to-year also allows James to avoid being locked into a long-term deal as the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association ready for their next round of collective bargaining negotiations. Either side can opt out of the existing CBA, signed prior to the 2011-12 season after a lockout that resulted in a substantial lowering in the share of basketball-related income that players receive each year, following the '16-'17 season.
