This season, Luka Doncic can become qualified for the NBA supermax contract extension. If he gets it, he will be the first player to make $70 million.

He will be the first player in NBA history to make $70 million in a single season when he signs the next supermax deal extension. The 24-year-old star player for the Dallas Mavericks is making NBA history. If he makes one more All-NBA team, he’ll be able to get the NBA supermax deal, which will pay him the most money in NBA history in a single season.

Bob Marks of ESPN said, “Doncic is on track to become the first $70 million player in NBA history.” “If Doncic is named All-NBA in 2023–24, he will be able to sign a five-year, $318 million supermax extension.” In 2024, he will only have six years of service, so he can’t sign the extension. But in 2025, he will have met the requirements (All-NBA in two of the three seasons before) and will be able to sign an extension that would start with the 2026–27 season.

If the salary cap goes up as planned, the last year of this possible extension for Luka Doncic’s deal would be worth $83.6 million.

Following players can get an NBA supermax contract next season: De’Aaron Fox, Pascal Siakam, Brandon Ingram, Bam Adebayo, Jaren Jackson Jr., and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. However, none of them will make $70 million in a single season before Doncic.

Doncic is doing things that have only been done a few times in NBA history, so it makes sense that the Mavericks will give him a mega-deal. Outside of LeBron James, the Mavs guard was the only player before age 25 to score 9,000 points and hand out 2,500 assists.

He is one of only three players since 1946 who has been on four All-NBA teams before the age of 25. The other three are Kevin Durant, Tim Duncan, and Max Zaslofsky.

The Mavericks’ first game of the 2023–24 NBA season is on October 25 against Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs.