Crazy, sensational to the NBA! The highest annual salary in history! 75.46 million yuan a year, more expensive than Alexander!

The Suns and the Thunder set new NBA annual salary records in two days, with Booker 75.46 million and Alexander 78.77 million. The star's value soaring has far exceeded the league's salary cap growth rate. The salary bubble of top players is pushing the league into a distorted development.

Phoenix's operation is incomprehensible.

Book's original contract is 171 million for 3 years, and the Sun will be tied up in advance for 2 years.

The salary in the 2029-30 season is as high as US$75.46 million, which is 4.21 million higher than Alexander, who just topped last month.

What's more magical is that just 36 hours before Booker signed the contract, Alexander just renewed the contract with Thunder for 285 million yuan for 4 years, and will get 78.77 million in 2030 - this record lasted only one and a half days.

Thunder's madness is even more serious. The trio of

Alexander + Holmgren + Jaylen Williams was locked at a sky-high price of 822 million, and these three contracts alone account for 115% of the estimated salary cap for the 2026-27 season.

This means that other players can only get basic salary, and the depth of the bench depends entirely on the newcomer's contract.

Although the Thunder just won the championship, the risk of overdrawing the gamble in the next ten years is too high.

Salary experts have calculated the calculations: ten years ago, the annual salary of the maximum salary player accounted for 35% of the salary cap, and now Booker accounts for 46% of the salary cap.

What's more cruel is the bottom-level comparison. This year, the NBA's basic salary is only $1.1 million.

When Booker earned 920,000 yuan in a regular season game, a two-way contract player had to play for three seasons before he could earn the same amount.

What is interesting is the market reaction.

The Suns lost more than $100 million last season, but they still made the most expensive lineup in the league; the Thunder are located in the smallest football market in the United States, with ticket prices rising by 28%. Behind the capital game is the cost that ordinary fans are forced to bear. The

broadcast contract is about to expire in 2025, and ESPN has been reported to be considering reducing its quotation.

Under the appearance of the star's value breaking through the sky, there is a more dangerous signal: the total annual salary of the top ten stars in the league has exceeded the total salary of fifteen teams.

When the living space of the character player is constantly squeezed, the backlash of the quality of the game will come sooner or later.