You can re-sign players that you acquired on draft night for any amount of money, but if it’s above the max, it only counts as a max contract on your cap. If the player is traded, their salary reduces to the max. This means that a superstar player gets a bonus for staying with their original team, but loses the bonus if they get moved.

This promotes front offices lying to players and actively costing them tens of millions of dollars

It would still promote the 10th worst team to throw their remaining 10 games to improve draft odds which is the bulk of the tanking people hate

There are no fast breaks at the end of games anyways