If Mavs star Luka Doncic makes All-NBA this season, he will be able to get a supermax contract next year.

The NBA is still making a lot of money, and Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic is about to get paid a huge amount of money.

Fans of the Mavs, don’t worry. Doncic isn’t going anywhere soon, unless someone asks for a deal. The Slovenian star is about to start the second season of the five-year, $215 million deal he signed with the Mavericks in 2021 as a “designated rookie.” If money is the most important thing to Doncic, he will have every reason to sign a new long-term deal with Dallas soon.

Bobby Marks, a cap expert for ESPN, says that Doncic can get a five-year, $318 million supermax deal in 2025 if he is named All-NBA again this season. Doncic would be signed until 2030–31, as the deal would begin with the 2026–27 season. He is expected to make a huge $83.6 million in the last year of that supermax deal. That’s more than $30 million more than Stephen Curry, who has the highest salary in the league right now.

To think, Doncic will only be 31 years old at the start of the next decade. He is still very much in his prime. The NBA is about to sign a new TV deal for 2025–2026, and it is said that it wants $7-8 billion a year from its next partner. This will make the pay cap even higher.

Remember that a player’s pay is directly tied to the salary cap. Because of this, the league’s maximum wage rules keep some superstars, like Doncic, from making nearly as much money for their teams and the NBA as a whole. He’ll probably be worth a lot more than $83.6 million by 2030–31.

The question that is much more interesting? Whether Doncic will play out the last year of his supermax deal with the Mavericks or if he’ll have already moved on and secured a new deal before asking Dallas to sell him.