Thanks to the new $24 billion deal that the NBA signed with Disney and Turner recently, the NBA team salary caps are expected to go up—way up—in 2016. As a result, superstars like LeBron James only signed two-year deals this summer, which will allow them to cash in on huge new contracts in two years. Carmelo Anthony didn't decide to go that route back in July, though—instead, he signed a five-year, $124 million contract with the Knicks—so you would think that he'd be kicking himself right now. But according to him, he's just fine with the five-year deal he signed.
"I never thought about a two-year deal," he said yesterday. "I didn't want to have to go back and do what I did this summer, not at all. There was stuff on the table. There wasn't a two-year deal discussed. But I'm good, man. Five years, man. I don't even want to speak on no two-year deal. I don't even know why I'm sitting here and we're talking about a two-year deal. I signed my deal, I'm good, the organization is good. We moved forward and everybody is in a good place. So I don't think there's even no need to discuss it."
Hmmm…Carmelo is going to make $124 million over the next five years, so it's hard to feel too bad for him. But how's he going to feel when other stars are making way more than him and the third and fourth-best players on teams are making what he's making? If that's how things end up working out, something tells us that "two-year deal" is going to be more than just an afterthought at that point.
[via New York Daily News]
