What Brian Windhorst has said about NBA salary cap second apron

2 quotes · 1 episode · Jul 6, 2026

Brian Windhorst, ESPN NBA reporter who criticized the Trae Young contract, has been quoted on NBA salary cap second apron 2 times in 1 episode of Pardon My Take, most recently on July 6, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Windhorst says teams treat the second apron like a hard cap.
“the second apron is the way the teams are acting. they're acting like it's a hard cap. Nobody has been in it two consecutive years”
Pardon My Take: NBA Free Agency With Brian Windhorst, World Cup, Balogun's Red Card Suspended And People Are Big Mad At The US, Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce Wedding + Mt Rushmore Of Weapons (Jul 6, 2026) · Listen from 1:44:48
Prediction · due Dec 2028
Windhorst predicts that within a couple of years some NBA contracts will include $80 million seasons.
“There will be players in the next couple of years where there will be years on their contract where it's $80 million”
Pardon My Take: NBA Free Agency With Brian Windhorst, World Cup, Balogun's Red Card Suspended And People Are Big Mad At The US, Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce Wedding + Mt Rushmore Of Weapons (Jul 6, 2026) · Listen from 1:44:35

Predictions

Prediction · due Dec 2028
Windhorst predicts that within a couple of years some NBA contracts will include $80 million seasons.
“There will be players in the next couple of years where there will be years on their contract where it's $80 million”
Pardon My Take: NBA Free Agency With Brian Windhorst, World Cup, Balogun's Red Card Suspended And People Are Big Mad At The US, Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce Wedding + Mt Rushmore Of Weapons (Jul 6, 2026) · Listen from 1:44:35 · NBA salary cap second apron

Episodes

NBA Free Agency With Brian Windhorst, World Cup, Balogun's Red Card Suspended And People Are Big Mad At The US, Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce Wedding + Mt Rushmore Of Weapons
Pardon My Take · Jul 6, 2026 · 2 h 29 min
Pardon My Take hosts celebrate Folarin Balogun's suspended suspension at the World Cup, draft a Mount Rushmore of weapons, and debate NBA free agency with Brian Windhorst.

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