Hoops

5 Under 450K rule?

I didn't realise that the minimum had gone up by almost 30%?.
Is there any source to this? I had always thought that the minimum was approx $42000ish

Teams would be complying with this.

5 players on an average of 95k each.

For United I'd expect that Adnam, Hooley and Smith-Milner would easily be under 95k.

Trist and Barlow who knows, but I doubt they'd be on too much more than 95k.

Imagine you were on 95k as an NBL player.

- NBL- 95k
- SEABL/State League/NZNBL - 25k
- Part time job- 35k

Depending on the line of work I guess. Most NBL players would be available basically full time from March/April to July but have severely restricted availability from August to February.

But most professions- Law, Accounting, Audit, Tax, IT allow some degree of flexibility these days. As do basic manual jobs - which do still exist. Skilled trade jobs, medical fields, teaching would be harder to get that flexibility but not impossible - consider casual relief teaching for example.

That's 155k. And realistic. 180k puts you in the top 3% of earners, so not too bad at all being close to that.

For 36ers, Doyle, Drm, Deng, Teys and Hodgy would have been easily under $450k.

Minimum for 18/19 is $54,659 I think.

This would be correct, every teams 7-11 players average $95k each, some earn $60k and others earn $130k, the disparity is with the first 6 on each roster. One would assume the Hawks and Taipans top 6 would total $700k whereas the big boys would be closer to $1.5 million.

I suspect this rule actually is followed. Otherwise, I don't know if you'd see Adelaide lock in Doyle for three years or Melbourne with Adnam and Hooley rather than stealing higher value targets from elsewhere.

LOL...I'm sure this rule is enforced as much as the Tax incentive one.

$481k means last season average team salary total was 1.336M! That's a 30% increase since the introduction of the 1M soft cap. Complying with the aggregate rule isn't so hard with that hefty increase.

Pretty hard to manage when every NBL player is on 400k a year

According to the latest article with JvG on the NBL website...

The aggregate salary of at least five of a team’s eleven players must be no more than forty percent of the salary floor, which for NBL19 equates to $481,000.