$80M/year NBA salaries coming soon
Brian Windhorst predicted that $80 million per year player contracts are coming in the NBA within the next couple of years as league revenues explode.
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NBA Free Agency With Brian Windhorst, World Cup, Balogun's Red Card Suspended And People Are Big Mad At The US, Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce Wedding + Mt Rushmore Of Weapons
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Jul 6, 2026
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Brian Windhorst NBA Free Agency
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Windhorst opens by setting the scene: as he started hearing Boston was asking for draft picks in trades, he assumed they were assembling pieces for a 3-team deal. But as notable players got traded and Brown wasn't the return in any scenario, it became clear something was wrong. The diagnosis: it wasn't Brown the player — it was Brown the $60M-per-year contract that teams feared. Multiple franchises passed on offers even with 3-4 first-rounders attached because they didn't want to tell him to his face they wouldn't extend him. Windhorst invokes the Darko Milicic tipping point: smart front offices convince themselves of things that in hindsight seem insane, and this might be one of those moments — or Brown might go to Philly and look great, and the Celtics will look like fools [1] — Brian Windhorst "Brian Windhorst revealed that multiple NBA teams rejected Jaylen Brown trade offers even when Boston attached 3-4 first-round picks, someth…" 1:37:50 .
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Jaylen Brown Was Nearly Untradeable: Windhorst's Stunning Revelation
Brian Windhorst revealed that multiple NBA teams rejected Jaylen Brown trade offers even when Boston attached 3-4 first-round picks, something Windhorst himself found stunning. The issue wasn't Brown as a player — it was his $60 million salary versus production, with teams afraid he'd demand $70M on extension. The NBA's new financial reality just swallowed one of its best players.
Jaylen Brown $60M/year, teams still passed
Multiple NBA teams rejected Jaylen Brown trade offers even with 3-4 first-round picks attached, with teams citing his $60M salary vs. production gap.
The Second Apron Is the NBA's New Hard Cap — And It's Killing Teams
Brian Windhorst broke down how the NBA's second apron tax threshold is being treated by teams as a de facto hard cap, even though it technically isn't one. No team has been in it two consecutive years. The result: teams are forced into player-sharing, can't keep championship rosters together, and the financial gap between superstar salary and production is now a front-office crisis.
Trae Young Contract Debate: PFT vs. Windhorst
PFT challenged Windhorst on his claim that the Trae Young contract was the worst in the NBA. Windhorst dug in hard — explaining that the $212M deal with a player option had no other bidders and would kneecap the Wizards for years — before finally conceding it was 'one of the worst.' PFT called it a massive dub.
LeBron's Free Agency: Cleveland Vibes, But Nobody Knows
Brian Windhorst laid out the LeBron James free agency landscape: 27 teams called Rich Paul, Cleveland feels like the frontrunner on vibes, the Warriors became real when Draymond opted out of $28 million, and Philly reached out immediately after landing Jaylen Brown. LeBron reportedly hasn't tipped his hand even to people close to him — exactly his MO from 2010.
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