Brickowski said:I don't favor removing the cap on individual salaries. The NBA is too star-centric as it is, and the bidding wars for the very best players would result in more tanking, not less, as teams cleared salaries in hopes of signing a Lebron James or Kevin Durant. The current rules already permit veteran stars like Kobe to earn in excess of 30M annually. That's enough in a league with a 60M cap (and a 71M de facto hard cap).
You're missing the flipside of the equation though. If you want a Lebron you have to completely decimate your team, thats a huge amount of risk to take. And it wouldnt be tanking aka trying to lose games, it would be trying to clear your cap space which would also result in a reduced FA market which isnt a bad thing for the NBA. The first few years would be very strange where teams would be looking to get $30M under the cap, but after just a few offseasons of utter failure when teams do that I think teams would think long and hard about doing that.