NBA as we know it.. Is done

[Scientific Playa]

The money is not in ticket sales, it's in TV rights.

It's like people aren't aware or have simply forgotten that the NBA recently inked a $24bn TV deal. Respectively, this results in an increase in the overall salary cap of the league and thus an increase in the individual salaries of the players. Base salaries remain roughly same and the salary bumps are apportioned somewhat equitably. Players are simply getting paid according to the market. Or do you guys want the glut of the money to go to a select few players till the NBA has a group of "1%ers" in their league? It wouldn't make any sense; even less sense than the CEO/entry level worker analogy that was made. Your fight should be with the NCAA - where players generate billions of dollars and don't get paid at all - and not the NBA.

no TV sales/revenue without popularity and butts in seats.
top performers get top pay. its like that in most businesses.
NCAA primary function is to prepare students for life with or without sports. if they make some billions along the way, then so be it. we live in a capitalistic society.

 

[Big Jo]

Is the NBA the only sport where people have an issue with players getting paid?

Is it because the players are so visible?

No.

I think all pro athletes are overpaid

 

[The_Sheff]

That's Why I think each team should have 1 special slot they can use on a player to offer a contract with no Max, that won't count against the cap. If you want it to count, then it can count as a regular max on the cap.

That way stars like Lebron will be paid their actual worth, the rest of the league can get more, and the cap can remain intact.

And you know what would happen? Some team would use that slot to pry a 2nd or 3rd level star away from a contender and you would be right back here complaining.

And what about teams with two legit stars like OKC? What would happen in a Kobe and Shaq situation?

 

[Serious]

Muthafukkas forget that being a professional entertainer (which is what an athlete is) commands a high salary because

1. they are very skilled at what they do which means people will pay to watch them perform and
2. the teams are making a fortune which is why the players deserve so much. If this wasn't the case, they wouldn't be paid like this.

Nobody ever said Frank Sinatra was overpaid. Nobody every said the Rolling Stones are overpaid.

I guess golf and tennis players are overpaid as well.

 

[the artist known az]

He's mad because the Sixers will have to actually spend money now

 

[Detroit Wave]

#WPOY2015

 

[OG Talk]

Less movement and trades as teams can bring back their players and they can't sign for more elsewhere. This is stupid and unfair for a player. You mean to tell me Lebron wants to play for Africa but he gets paid less if he leaves to sign with them. Total bullshyt.

 

[Detroit Wave]

the money needs to be distributed properly

if anthony davis makes 28 mil a year, demarre carroll shouldnt make 15

for demarre to be "worth" 15, anthony davis should be making 45-60

the guys who generate the revenue are underpaid

the no name role players are damn near making the same money as the guys who make the nba profitable in the first place

be mad at black men getting paid brehs

 

[Freshology]

No.

I think all pro athletes are overpaid

By overpaid you mean???

 

[Houston911]

be mad at black men getting paid brehs

Be slow, brehs

 

[Gallo]

be mad at black men getting paid brehs

Owners taking a higher share from players during a lockout is not a problem, but lower tier players taking a higher share is a problem

 

[Ain't That Something]

Less movement and trades as teams can bring back their players and they can't sign for more elsewhere. This is stupid and unfair for a player. You mean to tell me Lebron wants to play for Africa but he gets paid less if he leaves to sign with them. Total bullshyt.

No offense that has to be some of the dumbest reasoning

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

mad cause nikkas getting paid

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Why are you all in their pockets like a bytch?

I robbed a nikka once and went in his pockets. Accidentally grazed his dikk with my hand. The fakkit nikka nutted.

 

[DjMe]

NBA is about to become the biggest sport in North America.

Concussions/deflategate/oversaturation/changes to the way defenses can cover wideouts are chipping away at the pillars of salt the NFL insisted on building it's house upon.

The contrast between how seriously the NFL takes itself, and yet it's posterboy is a CHEATER... compared to the wholesome Steph Curry and his run to being a champion. There are watershed moments that just... happen.. in sports. Someday, people will look back at this season and point to it as the pivot point when the NFL started dropping and the NBA started rising.

Paying players more money and letting the "small markets" (historically bad teams?) compete is not a BAD thing in this context.

Now it's just time for the league to fix: the divisions/the schedule/whoe makes the playoffs/how the playoffs are seeded/the lottery and the draft/expansion into seattle/a 32nd north american team/and eventually global expansion.

Quite frankly: Silver is the man, but he needs to start leading, and stop asking everyone around him for advice.

This is the most pivotal 10 year period in NBA history. I hope he realizes that.