If one team doesn't pay up big another team does so if you have a player you wanna keep you are forced to pay more than what is probably fair or smart.
And not a single league cares because all they do is pass the cost on to the TV stations and radio stations, and then they just raised the cost of their ads. And then the teens just raise ticket prices concession costs parking and everything else.
Really televised sports has become nothing more than an extremely dense and sophisticated ad delivery system lol.
I stopped giving a crap what players get paid years ago because it doesn't change anything about the sport for me to be upset about what somebody is getting paid or happy about getting a player on a good deal. It very rarely has an impact on anything to do with what happens any given season anyway.