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Originally Posted by bullsville
I'm curious as to how the Knicks could sign Jordan to an even higher salary, since the cap that season was only $24.3 million and the Bulls paid MJ $30 million? I admit I'm not real familiar with what the cap rules were back then, but I'm pretty sure that with a $24.3 million cap the Knicks ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM offer to MJ was only 81% of what Jerry gave him.
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Knicks made a huge offer and also "brought" some NYC-based endorsements with them. So net, to Jordon, going to NYC was worth more money.
So MJ's salary was market driven & then a bit less...just like anything JR has paid to date.
Scary with Chandler out there. Will JR let Pax pay top dollar?