NBA as we know it.. Is done

[sportscribe]

Now there is some truth in this.. I always questioned why there was a MAX salary in basketball but not in other sports

It's just a way of regulating the market. If the Lakers pay Kobe $50m a year, then LeBron and Melo are going to wonder why they are only getting paid $40m a year. If LeBron and Melo are now getting paid $50m a year, then CP3 and Blake Griffin are going to wonder why they are only getting paid $35m a year and so on so forth. Without market regulation, salaries would balloon and teams would struggle to balance their books. It's always important to remember than the NBA is a business and the players are in fact employees. The NBA will do everything to maintain profitability, including levying salary caps on teams and players.

 

[UserNameless]

It's just a way of regulating the market. If the Lakers pay Kobe $50m a year, then LeBron and Melo are going to wonder why they are only getting paid $40m a year. If LeBron and Melo are now getting paid $50m a year, then CP3 and Blake Griffin are going to wonder why they are only getting paid $35m a year and so on so forth. Without market regulation, salaries would balloon and teams would struggle to balance their books. It's always important to remember than the NBA is a business and the players are in fact employees. The NBA will do everything to maintain profitability, including levying salary caps on teams and players.

So salaries aren't ballooned now?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

It's just a way of regulating the market. If the Lakers pay Kobe $50m a year, then LeBron and Melo are going to wonder why they are only getting paid $40m a year. If LeBron and Melo are now getting paid $50m a year, then CP3 and Blake Griffin are going to wonder why they are only getting paid $35m a year and so on so forth. Without market regulation, salaries would balloon and teams would struggle to balance their books. It's always important to remember than the NBA is a business and the players are in fact employees. The NBA will do everything to maintain profitability, including levying salary caps on teams and players.

I don't see it that way really.... You should get paid for your star power..... Bron has changed the downtown economy for Cleveland and has tripled the value of the franchise.........

Baseball doesn't have this problem.... Hell, the NFL doesn't even have MAX salaries.....

 

[sportscribe]

So salaries aren't ballooned now?

They aren't. They are getting paid according to the state of the market.

 

[MIAlien]

How does it help OKC keep Durant and Westbrook.

It might not. It helps KD & Westbrook make more $ though.

 

[sportscribe]

I don't see it that way really.... You should get paid for your star power..... Bron has changed the downtown economy for Cleveland and has tripled the value of the franchise.........

Baseball doesn't have this problem.... Hell, the NFL doesn't even have MAX salaries.....

At the end of the day, LeBron is still an employee of an organization. Whatever residual benefits he has given to the city of Cleveland has nothing to do with his salary as an employee. This is business at the end of the day and he is employed by the league to generate profits for them, not as a shareholder. Now where something such as 'star power' should hold sway is in jersey sales. Rather than the league sharing the profits equitably, the player whose jersey is sold should profit directly from it with a percentage. That would be a more practical way of doing it than ascribing players to be paid based on 'star power'. That is not easy to quantify. That's why the best players are given max salaries.

 

[UserNameless]

They aren't. They are getting paid according to the state of the market.

What does balloon mean? And it's a comparative term. What do we have to compare it to? Past salaries. So have salaries ballooned or nah?

 

[*Hulks Up*]

The NBA that I grew up on in the 90's is done. It used to mean something to make 100 million plus, it was a big deal when Shaq and KG got theirs but you atleast knew why they were getting it, they were proven. Now, anyone can make 90 million plus you don't need to be anywhere near elite. There's a reason the NBA more than any sport stays clinging to it's past stars, those late 80's and 90's players are what made the league.

 

[FTBS]

It's just a way of regulating the market. If the Lakers pay Kobe $50m a year, then LeBron and Melo are going to wonder why they are only getting paid $40m a year. If LeBron and Melo are now getting paid $50m a year, then CP3 and Blake Griffin are going to wonder why they are only getting paid $35m a year and so on so forth. Without market regulation, salaries would balloon and teams would struggle to balance their books. It's always important to remember than the NBA is a business and the players are in fact employees. The NBA will do everything to maintain profitability, including levying salary caps on teams and players.

It's just a way of being cheap and lazy and they are lucky it hasn't backfired on them yet. From a player's perspective, why work to maximize your game if you can get maximum money just for showing flashes or being one dimensional or having potential? With a cap in place, salaries can only balloon so much and it is up to owners to figure out what they can and can't pay. Paying a player of Lebron's caliber and profile $50 mil is not going to fukk up anybodies books. If everybody was getting what they were worth then it would all even out as the top guys would be getting more and the lower tier guys would be getting less but it would still basically be the same money.

 

[FTBS]

The NBA that I grew up on in the 90's is done. It used to mean something to make 100 million plus, it was a big deal when Shaq and KG got theirs but you atleast knew why they were getting it, they were proven. Now, anyone can make 90 million plus you don't need to be anywhere near elite. There's a reason the NBA more than any sport stays clinging to it's past stars, those late 80's and 90's players are what made the league.

KG had played 3 years and had yet to average 20 ppg when he got that deal breh. He hadn't proven shyt, it was all about potential. It used to mean something and be a big deal for a guy to make $100,000, times change . Random cats getting $90 mil isn't as much a problem as the guys who make the league now being forced into taking comparable salaries to those random or pretty good guys.

 

[sportscribe]

What does balloon mean? And it's a comparative term. What do we have to compare it to? Past salaries. So have salaries ballooned or nah?

The average NBA salary in 2013-14 was $4.9m. It is $4.6m so far for next season. Unless of course "balloon" in your lexicon is entirely different from everyone else's. Yes there are still contracts to be sorted, but it won't be a huge discrepancy.

 

[UserNameless]

The average NBA salary in 2013-14 was $4.9m. It is $4.6m for next season. Unless of course "balloon" in your lexicon is entirely different from everyone else's.

Doesn't address the spirit of my post... got any 1990s numbers? Any early 2000 numbers?

 

[sportscribe]

Doesn't address the spirit of my post... got any 1990s numbers?

Of course NBA salaries have ballooned from the 90s wtf? The league is more profitable now.

 

[Scientific Playa]

Change in average attendance has been pretty negligible:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/...me-attendance-per-team-in-the-nba-since-2006/

The increase in revenue is a direct result of increased viewership, particularly overseas. Top performers are getting top pay. That's not even an argument here.

If that was the case then soccer/football, the world's most popular sport would have a major presence on prime time American TV screens (major networks). American ballers and their skillset are the prime motivators of the popularity of the NBA globally and I admit with a healthy sprinkling of top notch Euro players in the league . I remember reading a story that Chinese fans wanted real NBA gear(jerseys) when Jeremy Lin was sizzling with the Knicks and would eschew the purchase knock-offs which is a popular market in their country. And lets not forget, Marbury has a statute in his honor while still playing the game. A global ambassador of the sport.

Stephon Marbury escaped the New York Knicks and is thriving with the Beijing Ducks, the reigning Chinese champions.

http://www.businessinsider.com/college-basketball-players-overseas-2012-5?op=1#ixzz3elGcHPEi



China's NBA Love Affair | The Diploma

Of course, the most revered basketball player in China isn't Yao Ming, even during his playing days, but Kobe Bryant, whose popularity in China far exceeds that in the U.S.

 

[sportscribe]

It's just a way of being cheap and lazy and they are lucky it hasn't backfired on them yet. From a player's perspective, why work to maximize your game if you can a get maximum money just for showing flashes or being one dimensional or having potential? With a cap in place, salaries can only balloon so much and it is up to owners to figure out what they can and can't pay. Paying a player of Lebron's caliber and profile $50 mil is not going to fukk up anybodies books. If everybody was getting what they were worth then it would all even out as the top guys would be getting more and the lower tier guys would be getting less but it would still basically be the same money.

You're suggesting that players will develop only one aspect of their game to push for max contracts? How does that even make sense?

Paying an individual player $50m while splitting the rest of the $17m among 11 players will definitely mess up a team's books. You will field a highly uncompetitive team with also-rans that nobody wants to watch. Now as for when the new CBA kicks in, the players at the very top will be getting exorbitant salaries, and maybe you'll be pleased then, but the role players can also expect a salary bump - that's unavoidable per the market forces.