A: To a degree, this all remains a work in progress. If someone is willing to give the NBA an obscene amount of money for broadcast and digital rights (as ESPN and Turner did to keep Fox and NBC out of the picture), then you don't pause and said, 'Hold on, let us figure out how to spend it all." Instead, there is plenty of work that will need to go into processing 2016 free agency and then the opt-out clauses that both the league and union have in 2017 with the collective-bargaining agreement. I spoke to one NBA part-owner Monday and he told me that just as Adam Silver acted well in advance of the broadcast deadlines, he's likely to come up with a solution in advance of the CBA re-opener date. For now, players will try to get their money in and 2016 and deal with CBA fallout afterward. In fact, if the NBA is willing to remove the individual maximum salary, it could be something that is done in advance of 2017. And with all this money, I couldn't envision the league even daring tying to make inroads with a hard cap. The bottom line is the cap will be going up exponentially in 2016, which makes it the perfect time for a cash grab by free agents, no matter the working agreement in place. Figure on a salary cap as much as $20 million more than the one in place.