Real kick in the solar plexus, there. Michael Jordan is the owner.
The problem is some contracts the team handed out in 2016. Observes Charlotte, "A lot of bad contracts were signed around the NBA that summer." You got that right, Queen Bees! That's precisely the reason Miami is stuck in the lottery. The NBA salary cap spiked enormously in the one year from 2015 to 2016, by over $24 million per team and SOME teams just couldn't resist: Nic Batum (I swear I have never HEARD of Nic Batum), here, take $120 mil; Marvin Williams (ditto), here, take $54 million; Hassan Whiteside, here's $198 mil to tide you over; James Johnson, here's $60 million for karate lessons; Dion Weighters, here's $47 million, have an extra cruller or three on us. It has taken the next three years for the cap to increase as much as it did that one year. If a team maxed out in 2016 they are still maxed out. Charlotte, say hello to Miami.
