Ben Simmons, Rudy Gobert and Pascal Siakam will all benefit by earning All-NBA honors in 2020, per Bobby Marks of ESPN.
Simmons, who signed a lucrative rookie-scale extension with the Sixers during the summer of 2019, has a starting salary of 25 percent of the 2020-21 salary cap. The starting salary will now be adjusted to 28 percent of the cap because he was voted to the All-NBA Third Team.
If the NBA salary cap stays flat at $109.1 million, Simmons' extension will be worth $177.2 million, with a starting salary of $30.6 million. Simmons' teammate, Joel Embiid, didn't make All-NBA and will need to make it next season to be supermax eligible.
Gobert, who is eligible to sign the supermax extension with the Utah Jazz this offseason, can also get one in 2021. The Jazz may not offer the two-time Defensive Player of the Year the supermax this offseason, though, since they first have to sign All-Star shooting guard Donovan Mitchell to a rookie-scale extension and may not want to commit all that money.
As for Siakam, who signed a rookie-scale extension with the Toronto Raptors before the start of the 2019-20 season, his starting salary will be adjusted to 28 percent of the cap because he was voted to the All-NBA Second Team. If the NBA cap stays flat, Siakam's extension will be worth $136.9 million, with a starting salary of $30.6 million.
It's unclear if the NBA salary cap will remain the same moving forward since the league lost a ton of money during the COVID-19 hiatus. Plus, there are no fans at Walt Disney World for the playoffs, which is where the NBA makes much of its revenue. The league is hoping to avoid anything crazy happening with the salary cap, but that all still has to be figured out.
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