With the NBA’s salary cap increasing by $22 million this summer, the league’s top 10 highest-paid players list has equal parts new, old, and surprising faces. The NBA’s new television rights deal (tied with the agreed upon revenue split between the players’ union and owners in the collective bargaining agreement) begins in the upcoming 2016-17 season and the extra revenue lifted the salary cap from $72 million to $94 million for every team.
