NBA as we know it.. Is done

[The_Sheff]

A.Hard cap
B.shorten rookie deals to 3 years
c. No max on how much a player can make
D. Remove the ability to go over the cap to keep your own players
e. Allow teams to frontload by 12.5 percent each year

Set the cap at lets say, 125 million for next year

Contracts are fully guaranteed, but you can release players. When they get released, they go to whichever team makes the highest bid. However much that team bids gets removed from your cap hit.

Teams wont be able to have 3 all stars like cleveland

Tanking wont be so easy when rookie deals only last for 3 years

A team might pay lebron 50 mil, but they wont give it to millsap in this situation

So essentially you want a more mediocre product in order for there to be a larger gap between the pay of LeBron and Millsap. And it still doesnt solve the problem of owners overpaying players who dont deserve the money which is exactly what we have now. You want a system that forces owners to have self control, you just cant create something that solves that problem. Under your system there is absolutely nothing that prevents a team from still giving Millsap the same money as LeBron.

 

[Houston911]

But breh that's not even the premise of this thread. One post O.P. talking bout small market teams not able to afford star players through free agency. Your promise is a whole not her thread.

He said that he worded it poorly and he meant what im saying though..... thats what im going off breh

 

[Houston911]

So essentially you want a more mediocre product in order for there to be a larger gap between the pay of LeBron and Millsap. And it still doesnt solve the problem of owners overpaying players who dont deserve the money which is exactly what we have now. You want a system that forces owners to have self control, you just cant create something that solves that problem. Under your system there is absolutely nothing that prevents a team from still giving Millsap the same money as LeBron.

How is it a more mediocre product? It spreads talent throught the league instead of one team having 3 all stars

No team is giving millsap 45 mil if they can only spend another 80 to fill out their roster

 

[sportscribe]

According to Forbes, 39 of the 122 professional sports teams lost money last year.

How many of those were NBA teams? Where is the context?

I find it hard to imagine the NBA collapsing in 10 years as you put it, when they are signing $24bn TV rights deals and haven't even really broken into the international market yet.

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

What is a fair percentage exactly? Sounds pretty arbitrary.

This is why salary caps exist in the first place... It's a form of regulation so teams can't pay overblown salaries to collect all the best players like they do in European soccer. NBA teams are also micromanaged in the same way. You don't want individual players taking up half of the team's salary either, making it a league of haves and have nots. Basketball is a team sport.. it's not golf or tennis. Close to equitable salaries makes it possible to keep core players together longer rather than having to reshuffle their rosters when contracts are up. It gives teams like the Warriors some wiggle room so they can make a run at another championship without having to retool and look for another Draymond Green. The best players are still getting paid so called 'max' salaries, so this veiled attempt at lobbying for them is BS. You all just seem upset that less talented players are still getting paid under the new TV deal. Guess you should have become an NBA role player.

Generally in show business, it's the talent who gets the majority of the money(or should, often times they get fukked over)

Also, the salary cap is there to prevent players from being paid what they really are worth. Guys like Lebron and Kobe are worth hundreds of millions of dollars to organisations, because now they can charge tv networks and sponsors a premium due to having that star player.

It's funny how you can always spot a white dude on internet forums by them having problems with players getting paid. They always stick up for the owner, funny dynamic isn't it? Almost like we've seen it before

 

[sportscribe]

Generally in show business, it's the talent who gets the majority of the money(or should, often times they get fukked over)

If they are getting max deals already from their respective teams, what else should they get paid?

 

[The_Sheff]

How is it a more mediocre product? It spreads talent throught the league instead of one team having 3 all stars

No team is giving millsap 45 mil if they can only spend another 80 to fill out their roster

I like having a couple of teams that have numerous superstars instead of every team having 1 and a bunch of role players. I just want to make sure the system allows any team to have multiple superstars if they manage things right.

When the current system was made you had people saying "nobody would give *insert random player* the max if they only have such and such to fill out their roster. Then random players started getting the max from mediocre teams and we ended up where we are now.

 

[UserNameless]

that's cool for regular workers who have to make a decent wage to live....but these guys are millionaires, they don't need to be "saved". without the big guns none of these guys are getting crazy bread because nobody is watching the nba like that.

you've got role players who are good at 1 or 2 things making 80% of what guys like lebron and durant make.....that's not capitalism.

 

[Danie84]

NBA's Done cuz of Mark-Ass-Sixers tankin FUKKERY

...got PFs and Cs as their starting-Five

Silver needs to throw them Bums into Larry Holmes Garden

 

[Leasy]

Why are you dudes so fascinated with race. fukk baseball, hockey and all that other shyt. We are talking about Basketball and if you want to get deeper into bring back high school players but that wasn't the premises of the thread. Everything black and white here shyt makes no sense.

 

[GoonbergScandal]

Did I just step back into 1996 and nobody told me?

No this season is worst than 1996. Role players are making twice as much as a lot of allstar caliber players from 1996 smh. Brandon Knight and Middleton getting 70 mill a year is too much for guys that only had one or two good seasons in the league. Looking back, 1996 wasn't as nearly as bad as the early 2000s. players like Eric Dampier, Eddy Curry and Raef Lefrentz were getting max deals from 50 to 80 mill a year.

 

[Leasy]

NBA's Done cuz of Mark-Ass-Sixers tankin FUKKERY

...got PFs and Cs as their starting-Five

Silver needs to contract them Bums to Larry Holmes Garden

So what the Clippers been doing for 20 years or Warriors for 20 years or the Cavs for 20 years or Wizards or Bucks.

 

[sportscribe]

No this season is worst than 1996. Role players are making twice as much as a lot of allstar caliber players from 1996 smh. Brandon Knight and Middleton getting 70 mill a year is too much for guys that only had one or two good seasons in the league.

These dudes are really in here arguing against players getting paid in a free market economy.

 

[GoonbergScandal]

Baseball was the #1 sport in the country at one point and their season is twice as long as the NBA's

Yeah because Baseball had a much bigger black fanbase back in the 90s. nikkas fukked with Ken Griffey, Frank Thomas, Bo Jackson, and Kenny Lofton hardcore back in the day. Baseball still has some really great black baseball players today, but whites never market them these days. This one white dude that's a hardcore baseball fan told me about all these great black baseball players from the early 2000s all the way till present day that I've never heard of in my life.

 

[Big Jo]

I find it hard to imagine the NBA collapsing in 10 years as you put it, when they are signing $24bn TV rights deals and haven't even really broken into the international market yet.

That $24 billion deal is exactly why they could collapse. Somebody has to pay it.

As we move forward in the digital era, television as an industry may not be able to generate the money it once did. You have a younger generation of fans with shorter attention spans that live on youtube clips.

The league isn't going to fall apart tomorrow. But $24 billion being tossed around like it's nothing, organizations have collapsed like a deck of cards over much less.