@saltlover thank you for the thoughtful replies to my questions.
do you think that other teams that will go after FAs this summer will be similarly affected by the new CBA?
what im thinking ia the raise in salaries should affect all teams - tho it is more unfair to teams like the Cs which managed their book keeping very carefully.
what seems to be making our situation complicated is that we might get two top5 picks in 2017 and 18.
PS am i right to think that when yabusele and zizic come the 2016 rookie salary scale will apply?
Yabusele and Zizic will count for the scale the year they come over, so I'm assuming 2017. They will collectively cost more than $1 million extra.
While many teams will be affected, the Celtics will be one of the most affected as we have a very high first rounder as well as two other first rounders. The only teams that could be more affected are those that had hoped to have room for two max players. Golden State will be in a little more trouble as well if Durant demands a max this season -- it was going to be difficult for him to fit anyway, since they need to use cap room, but his projected salary increased by $2.5 million, and they were already cutting it tight.
The increase in rookie scale contracts will affect us down the line as well. Obviously we have another high pick next year, and additionally the salaries in the third year of a rookie deal now have a significant increase as well (although I'm a little unclear the exact amount of the increase as I've seen conflicting information.) The good news for the Celtics is that, while they also made the rookie salary increases retroactive for players already on their rookie deals, those players won't have a change to their cap number, and the league pays the difference. In other words, Jaylen Brown will see an increase of about 15% to next year's salary from what it was scheduled to be, but there won't be any change to the Celtics cap number from that increase.