I'm not an expert in the cap. You claimed Hayward will not get a max deal. I'm saying teams will be willing to pay him what is essentially max money. Maybe if someone else chimes in with some max clarification, but bottom line, I'm saying that if the Jazz give him as much as or more than any other team could have given him then he essentially got the max, even if the Jazz could have given him more. And if the headlines are that Hayward got a max deal, then I'm calling that a max deal.
So not just a straight $/cap percentage most likely because teams could get creative. If over the life of the deal his $/cap/years is within a couple percentage points of the max I'd say I win.
Don't forget I'm taking all the injury risk here, so I want some wiggle room on what the max is.