Miami Heat: Cody Martin Got $8M Per, So What’s That Mean For Caleb Martin?
Though Cody Martin has been, generally, the better all-around basketball player up until this point by most opinions, Caleb Martin has a top-end potential that Cody may not ever have simply due to more explosive physical gifts.
Either way you slice it, you can say they are comparable players from a production and future potential standpoint. That’s the very least that can be deduced when you analyze them.
If that’s the case, then one might think their deals would be comparable. That’s where things get hairy for the Miami Heat.
The Heat would want to stay below the $6.5 million dollars hard cap range, while the only other option would be an exception that allows them to go higher. While that’s just to give clarity, salary cap gymnastics are entirely too complicated of a sport to act as though it’s as simple as a set of numbers that can be explained in totality here.
The point of it all is that the Miami Heat probably don’t want to get too close to that $8 million dollars per year range, if near at all, for Martin this offseason, as that wouldn’t allow them to do much else at all.
However, if that’s the number that Cody commanded, it wouldn’t be the strangest thing to see Caleb Martin haul in something close to that. And that’s the jarring thing about Cody Martin’s deal with the Charlotte Hornets.