And I hated Arison for that shyt too. Now we're still up against the tax wall paying a ton of role players
Stephen A. Smith DESTROYS OKC's Sam Presti [White Privilege]
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Hindsight 20/20 ass nikkas it wasn’t Sam Presti that wouldn’t pay the luxury tax it was ownership that made that decision for him. I remember a bunch of nikkas was saying Kevin Martin could replace Harden and talking about Lamb like he could be good player
The_Third_Man
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it's easy to say that now, but the fact of the matter is nobody expected James Harden to be this good when he left the Thunder especially after his poor performance in the finals. it could've been another Reggie Jackson's (before Reggie Jackson) situation.
Troy Weaver never gets credit for scouting eitherEvery team would love to have Sam Presti as their GM.
He’s the one who built that team from the ground up through his own drafting/scouting, and it wasn’t his fault that ownership was too cheap to pay for his core.
With that said, OKC deserves all the bad luck they get for stealing that team from Seattle and taking it to that hillbilly shythole.
Fail to win a title with Harden/Durant/Westbrook brehs
Fail to make it back to the Finals with Durant/Westbrook/Ibaka brehs
Lose in the first round with Westbrook/PG/Melo brehs
Pay Kendrick Perkins $8 million a year but refuse to max out Harden brehs
FreshandClean
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Who hurt youits over
oklahoma city is done and in about 3 years this will be the biggest most irrelevant franchise in the league because well nobody gives a shyt about oklahoma besides racist hillbilly incest cocksuckersthen nba will be begging seattle to get their team back
clay bennett would be a perfect nfl team owner, because he's a redneck hillbilly back stabbing penny pinching comissioner ass kissing son of a bytch
this okc team was praised as a low market team that built championship contending team by drafting well. Giving hope to other small market teams. When in reality this poorly ran organization has possibly ruined the league's competition and will be one of the main reasons why a lot of low market team star players will be leaving their teams in the future thus fukking up the low market teams and forcing them to tank and therefore making the league's competition worse.
If a fukking low market team with 3 superstars are too cheap to keep them all and still can't win then why would any low market team star like giannis or AD have a hope in their franchise ever competing for a title....
plus the major backstabbing move they did back in 2008 moving team to oklahoma when they promised to stay in seattle is once again one of the main reasons why the trust between players and team owners is at the all time low level. Almost every star player from 2008 to now got at least traded once or demanded the trade or left their team in free agency.
fukking cheap ass organization hiring scott brooks or billy to coach superstar teams when they have no plan on the offense, can't make this shyt up...this franchise is about to be 80s/90s clippers status...
nikkas focus on his poor play in the finals forgetting he was one of the main reasons why okc beat the spurs from being down 0-2 to sealing the deal in 6 games
he showed what he could become once he gained more experience. Any smart organization would have kept those three getting rid of bum asses like kendrick perkins and other shyt you can think of... Two superstars and another one off the bench - thats elite scoring on every damn minute on the court.
Every time Harden came in the fukkin game that team played lights out...
Presti is a clown
Art Barr
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The whole make harden six man was to keep him lowly paid on purpose.
Just by draft pedigree alone harden should have never been undervalued, period.
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Screaming A’s point right here.... white privilege is undefeated
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It's a business. From an owner's perspective, as long as they put a product on the floor that makes money, they are good. A championship is just a bonus.
That's what fans don't seem to get. Yall really over here talking about championships? It's about money.
OKC's mistake was signing Ibaka first. Once he signed, I knew Harden was done, despite the fact that he was significantly better.
That's what fans don't seem to get. Yall really over here talking about championships? It's about money.
OKC's mistake was signing Ibaka first. Once he signed, I knew Harden was done, despite the fact that he was significantly better.
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Hard cap fixes a lot of this juelzing by GMs.
NBA needs it, ASAP. A high dollar amount (say 115% of the tax line right now) plus normal TV & gate-revenue related cap increases as currently constructed. Couple it with a minimum payroll requirement (90% of the cap? 85%?).
The gap between small and large-market teams is accelerating and will only get worse as time goes on under the current arrangement.
Luxury tax is an awful idea - rewards short-term, franchise-killing decision making at the expense of the long-term health of the league. It also rewards the worst owners in the league who spend the bare minimum on players, player development, coaching staff, front office, etc - allowing teams like the old Clippers to exist for years on end for no earthly purpose.
The other thing teams need is the ability to release players + not have them affect the cap while still paying out the remainder of their salary. The stretch provision is a start, but it isn't enough because teams still take that full cap hit - all it does is lengthen the amount of time that fans suffer from watching an awful product on the floor.
This will improve the odds of a turnaround of any given bad team - the way teams can go from 3-13 to 10-6 in a year in the NFL. This is how you maintain fan interest and gate revenue in small markets - there has to be hope of a turnaround. Whether through the draft or by smart free agent signings.
Teams should also have more flexibility with negotiating how a contract gets paid out. A 5-year 100mm contract should be able to be front-loaded - say $40 or even $50mm in the first year, with the remainder in the last 4. This will give teams a whole lot more options in building rosters, and allow them to "ladder" contracts for developing talent so they can stay competitive for longer stretches of time.
And finally, the NBA needs to completely scrap the draft lottery. Tanking is awful for the league. 1st round picks should be assigned completely randomly some months before the draft. 2nd round picks are then the reverse order of the 1st round. Every team has an equal chance. Every GM has to bust their ass to identify, acquire, and develop talent. And every owner has to take running their franchise seriously.
NBA needs it, ASAP. A high dollar amount (say 115% of the tax line right now) plus normal TV & gate-revenue related cap increases as currently constructed. Couple it with a minimum payroll requirement (90% of the cap? 85%?).
The gap between small and large-market teams is accelerating and will only get worse as time goes on under the current arrangement.
Luxury tax is an awful idea - rewards short-term, franchise-killing decision making at the expense of the long-term health of the league. It also rewards the worst owners in the league who spend the bare minimum on players, player development, coaching staff, front office, etc - allowing teams like the old Clippers to exist for years on end for no earthly purpose.
The other thing teams need is the ability to release players + not have them affect the cap while still paying out the remainder of their salary. The stretch provision is a start, but it isn't enough because teams still take that full cap hit - all it does is lengthen the amount of time that fans suffer from watching an awful product on the floor.
This will improve the odds of a turnaround of any given bad team - the way teams can go from 3-13 to 10-6 in a year in the NFL. This is how you maintain fan interest and gate revenue in small markets - there has to be hope of a turnaround. Whether through the draft or by smart free agent signings.
Teams should also have more flexibility with negotiating how a contract gets paid out. A 5-year 100mm contract should be able to be front-loaded - say $40 or even $50mm in the first year, with the remainder in the last 4. This will give teams a whole lot more options in building rosters, and allow them to "ladder" contracts for developing talent so they can stay competitive for longer stretches of time.
And finally, the NBA needs to completely scrap the draft lottery. Tanking is awful for the league. 1st round picks should be assigned completely randomly some months before the draft. 2nd round picks are then the reverse order of the 1st round. Every team has an equal chance. Every GM has to bust their ass to identify, acquire, and develop talent. And every owner has to take running their franchise seriously.
GoddamnyamanProf
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No. Harden was CLEARLY better than Reggie Jackson. Plenty of people like me recognized his distribution and scoring abilities to be superior to Westbrook's at times. Houston wouldnt have made him the man from the jump of they didn't see it too.
And no surprise the same stubborn clowns are still trying to downplay and shyt on him now as the MVP of the entire league.