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In Brett Brown, the Philadelphia 76ers have found a coach who embodies their team
The NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement is an agreement between the NBA and the world of basketball players, pertaining to all that which relates to the players.
It involves a very wide array of topics, including everything from how big of a per diem players are given every day for food ($129, apparently) to the rules surrounding first class travel (teams have to guarantee first-class travel on any journey longer than an hour.unless you’re a two-way contract player receiving a call-up from the G-League or being sent back down to it, in which case, ask nicely).
Perhaps most importantly and certainly most famously, it handles all the rules related to the salary cap, the formation of new playing contracts, and the options available with incumbent ones.
However, in no way has the CBA inhibited a teams ability to spend on its off-court product. There are no limits to what teams can pay to coaching staffs and front office executives, and there have never been.
In recent years, NBA franchises have begun to increase the amount they spend on their coaching and front office staffs, perhaps more greatly understanding the exploitable market inefficiencies it opens up.
Coaching and executive salaries are far more difficult to verify than player salaries.
There is an internal NBA database of player salaries; there has to be, as the exact figures involved matter for the purposes of meeting specific CBA provisions and roster management.
Executives of rival teams still need to know the salaries of another teams players lest they seek to acquire them, for the salary they earn determines how they can do so.
For front offices and coaches, however, the information is much harder to come by. They are things that only the relevant parties need to know. Nevertheless, hearsay and media reports allow for a picture of the NBA coaching salary market.
The increases to coaching salaries are not commensurate with those of the players, but they are increasing.
Culminating in some reported eight-figure annual salaries for some coaches, including Doc Rivers and the transcendent Gregg Popovich, coaching salaries have been on the rise for a while.