The NBA salary cap over the last 10 years jumped from $49.5 million to $63.2 million, a 28 percent increase.

It stayed flat at around $58 million for a half decade before finally leaping about $5 million this season due to an uptick in revenue. 

The league right now projects a jump to $66.5 million for 2015-16, a modest rise pegged to the final year of that modest $930 million TV deal.

If the new TV deal kicks in for the 2016-17 season just shy of $2 billion, the cap could exceed that same $14 million leap, all the way to around $80-plus million, in a single year.

If it started at that exact $2.68 billion figure, it would likely break $90 million.