Blame the players for the owners and their dumb ass GMs.
@Leasy Ryan Howard fat sorry ass been caking the last few years and you don't hear shyt. Baseball players stay winning.
NBA as we know it.. Is done
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Blame the players for the owners and their dumb ass GMs.
@Leasy Ryan Howard fat sorry ass been caking the last few years and you don't hear shyt. Baseball players stay winning.
triplehate
Superstar
When did anyone watch regular season basketball?
sportscribe
Superstar
It's not exactly a laissez-faire economy, but it is certainly a free market. The only sort of regulations are the salary cap (which can be exceeded in certain cases) and the max contract. Otherwise the supply or demand for the players is what determines their value. But I see where you're coming from.
Greenstrings
All Star
There are so many ways to make that appear to be the case even when it is clearly not. Accountants get paid.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...ss/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.businessinsider.com/nets-financials-nba-lockout-2011-6?IR=T
I wouldn't complain. I want players to get paid the most possible $. Uncapped slots would help to solve the small market team issues of keeping stars and even out the talent league wide, for the most part.
It would hurt super teams, but the heavy tax does that anyway. Instead of just penalizing owners into not spending, have them pay MORE to compete.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
That's out of the league's control. Ballmer helped the league out By grossly overpaying for the Clippers. That jacked everyone's value up, but yes the operational losses are what were being argued.
UserNameless
Veteran
IME, young cats rarely watch the games. As they get older, they might. But as for now they really do check the YouTube clips and the scores that pop up on their phones.
And it's tough to fit the NBA's payment structure into loose principles of capitalism because it really is its own, contract-laden entity with a contingency element that doesn't make sense to most of us lay folk.
It's mind boggling. It really is if applied to real world, 9-5 shyt. But I dig where @houston911 and others are coming from shyt's ridiculous from the working/layman's perspective. @LV Koopa made excellent points too.
Balmer was last year, the lockout was what 4 years ago. Team values always go up and for owners to blatantly ignore that was bullshyt. And to complain about players salaries when their GMs are the ones signing these deals is some bullshyt too.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
You think loopholes and stuff were used to cook every team's books? It doesn't take an internal investigation to figure out how teams don't make money. It would take a lot of corruption to hide that lie just to NOT play games that (with supposed loopholes) make you money anyway.
There are so many ways to make that appear to be the case even when it is clearly not. Accountants get paid.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...ss/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.businessinsider.com/nets-financials-nba-lockout-2011-6?IR=T
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Not for everyone. Even players conceded that. Players just thought the number of teams who claimed that was excessive. 21 teams reported losses of some sort. The players thought it was more like 9 or 10. Are you gonna tell me even the 9 teams the players thought had a legit gripe were bullshytting too?
not arguing about some teams losing money operationally. Again some. But their Team Valuations more than nullify that since you can write off losses. That is a given.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
The only way to truly write that off is by selling it. It's not a good thing for a buyer or seller to know the property isn't profitable.
You haven't been in Philly the past 5 years. They be killing Ryan Howard for his contract.
Im fine with no cap at all
I just want lebron/durabts pay to reflect that they are much more important than brook lopez