The hope for every worker is to have a better salary each year of their career. For NBA players, this is usually a given, starting with fixed rookie-scale contracts that increase annually. However, we find the opposite in some cases: players with decreasing contracts year over year. For NBA organizations, this is a valuable tool to maintain future flexibility, even if it means making sacrifices in the immediate present.
Here are the players whose salaries will decrease until their current contracts expire.
