“When things go as planned, Dan is in the background. ”But that minimum salary is more than double the minimum from the past year, and it’s well ahead of the wages minor-league baseball players are suing to raise. Over the decades he became one of the most powerful and innovative forces within the game, developin. ) The Cavaliers, however, don’t look as strong as they did last year, when they still needed a Warriors collapse to win the title.