Salary Caps Should Be Illegal

[TheEgyptianConniption]

I mean I could be wrong but dont the nfl and nba players get like 49 or 50% of revenue? I think I remember those numbers from the last couple cbas.
I've never had a job where the owner gave us half the money. Not even close. So yeah basically seems about fair

 

[Lord Beasley]

no caps in basketball would mean crazy stacked teams. Make the GMs work.

 

[Big Boss]

Unlimited cap would kill small market teams

This

 

[Big Boss]

Ballmer is worth an est. 160 billion (6th richest person in the world).

He'd literally buy championships.

The NBA season would essentially become Clippers simulating games on easy mode against the other 10-14 teams. It'd completely drain the competitive hold that the league currently has and the players on the bottom teams would just show up to collect a check. You'd only have 2-4 teams who'd be competitive and it'll essentially be a re-run of the same players and same teams every other game.

Facts

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

small market teams would have a major issue with this

Open the check book Dolan

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

@FTBS

The mistake you're making is thinking that the same variance in baseball and soccer holds true in basketball. It doesn't. There are considerably far fewer variables in hoops given the probability of scoring on a possession. Soccer and baseball are almost entirely games of single digit scoring. Whereas the league-average scoring possessions in a NBA game this season was 100+ (FGM and FTA).

That means whoever has the most talent will win 9 times out of 10.

On the note of the other owners letting him in -

If Ballmer wasn't allowed to own a NBA team, wouldn't that then essentially put a net worth cap on the owners who could enter the NBA, meaning there'd still ultimately be a salary cap?

 

[broller]

You talking about the nfl where salaries are not guaranteed and they collude to flat out not pay players money and not pay certain positions?

The NFL where top QBs get their money and there's no hard cap on the max they can get, yeah.

 

[Bop Gun]

Unlimited cap would kill small market teams

Good. Every year in the Playoffs, each team somehow only has 7 or 8 players who can get on the court? It's ridiculous. Too many teams is diluting the product.

No salary cap would make the product better, get rid of the bums who are relegated to the ends of the bench, lesser teams so more squads can have a 5 on, 5 off system, and the true top players can bank 250m/yr contracts like in soccer because they are battling it out against the true best players.

It's annoying seeing backups dominate and show off their moves in offseason pickup leagues, but in the NBA they aren't skilled enough to create their own shot.

 

[RhodyRum]

So why don't the players do something about it then?

People are bytching on behalf of the players when they could do something about it if they really wanted to.

When you didn't have a father in your life to aggrieve for, you have to attach yourself to a father figure and overcompensate on the aggrieving, would be my wild guess.

 

[Bboystyle]

Good. Every year in the Playoffs, each team somehow only has 7 or 8 players who can get on the court? It's ridiculous. Too many teams is diluting the product.

No salary cap would make the product better, get rid of the bums who are relegated to the ends of the bench, lesser teams so more squads can have a 5 on, 5 off system, and the true top players can bank 250m/yr contracts like in soccer because they are battling it out against the true best players.

It's annoying seeing backups dominate and show off their moves in offseason pickup leagues, but in the NBA they aren't skilled enough to create their own shot.

Good? Driving small market teams out the league is good to you?

Watching the same big market teams go at it year in and out is good to you?

 

[Bop Gun]

Good? Driving small market teams out the league is good to you?

Watching the same big market teams go at it year in and out is good to you?

The Lakers just had a game where nobody subbed in for the entire second half. It is clear the talent is too spread out from having too many teams.

I'm also sick of watching only 6, 7 or 8 players get burn come playoff time. It's clear many of these guys aren't NBA material.

Less teams = more quality teams. Cheap owners need not apply.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

So what if yall had a job, and the owner told you, I don’t care how much money you generate, I will never pay you over X dollars? Do you think that would be fair? Would you bring up parity around the office or would you want your salary potential to be uncapped?

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Good? Driving small market teams out the league is good to you?

Watching the same big market teams go at it year in and out is good to you?

nikkas just be yapping

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I'm going to go through this slowly. If you were to eliminate the salary cap, that means small market teams would have a lot of trouble competing. If small market teams cannot compete, nobody is going to watch them or attend the games. That puts those small markets in jeopardy and with that, it puts players jobs in jeopardy.

If a league can sustain 30 teams. That's extra jobs for players. If a league can only sustain 20 teams. That's a lot fewer. Do you understand the simple math?

 

[Big Boss]

I'm going to go through this slowly. If you were to eliminate the salary cap, that means small market teams would have a lot of trouble competing. If small market teams cannot compete, nobody is going to watch them or attend the games. That puts those small markets in jeopardy and with that, it puts players jobs in jeopardy.

If a league can sustain 30 teams. That's extra jobs for players. If a league can only sustain 20 teams. That's a lot fewer. Do you understand the simple math?

Facts