The NBA Shouldn’t Have A Salary Cap: Lets Argue

[Double Burger With Cheese]

First off, it’s un-American

Second, people will bring up parity. Well, traditionally, the NBA has never had much parity anyway.

Third, people will say, but you have to protect the owners from themselves. fukk these owners, they’ll be ok. They’ll figure it out.

People already starting to complain that the Supermax is having the opposite of the intended effect (helping small market teams)

 

[badboys11]

You wanna see knicks vs lakers every year in the finals?

 

[The Fire]

You wanna see knicks vs lakers every year in the finals?

even with no salary cap that wouldn’t happen
A salary cap is fine but there shouldn’t be max contracts

 

[badboys11]

even with no salary cap that wouldn’t happen
A salary cap is fine but there shouldn’t be max contracts

Yes it would. TV contracts allow the yankees to buy whatever talent they want every offseason, and this aint baseball. New York has the money to sign kd kyrie kawhi klay, and can do it again next summer

 

[BlackAchilles]

I lowkey hate the entire North American sports set up

Promotion/relegation, being able to sell a player's rights to another team straight up, and youth academies>>> A "draft", the NCAA, and having to trade players for other players with max contracts and a cap

 

[The Fire]

Yes it would. TV contracts allow the yankees to buy whatever talent they want every offseason, and this aint baseball. New York has the money to sign kd kyrie kawhi klay, and can do it again next summer

the Yankees haven’t been to the World Series in 10 years

 

[The God Poster]

Yes it would. TV contracts allow the yankees to buy whatever talent they want every offseason, and this aint baseball. New York has the money to sign kd kyrie kawhi klay, and can do it again next summer

I don't think so

You wanna see knicks vs lakers every year in the finals?

at the Knicks in the finals.​

 

[UpAndComing]

You wanna see knicks vs lakers every year in the finals?

Exactly. It's for competitive balance

And it exposes horrible ownership and management. You can't just be the richer owner who gets the best player. It will take smarts to get the best player

 

[badboys11]

the Yankees haven’t been to the World Series in 10 years

This isnt baseball. There are maybe 10 players in the league with the talent to lead you to the championship. Take away the salary cap and those guys are clicking up.

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

I agree with no cap in the sense that I want these players to make as much as they can, but look at English (or just European) football; there is serious stratification, even more than in the NBA, in terms of who can win. At least in the NBA, dynasties end. In world soccer, you can keep buying a perpetual dynasty every year. Some of these clubs like Man City of today or Real Madrid in the fascist Spain era had state money pumped into them. What happens if the Chinese state buys an NBA team and pumps perpetual state money into it, in theory? That squad will always be at the top of the league.

I'm all for getting rid of the draft and letting players sign wherever they want to sign once they declare themselves professionals, but a soft cap + luxury tax is good for the health of the game. Things can get way out of whack as soon as you let some owners spend their greater wealth than other owners. This is probably the one thing that European sports should take from American sports; American sports sees their leagues as a business and wants to at least chase the possibility of competitiveness-for-all.

 

[CarltonJunior]

No argument from me, I don't think any sport should have a salary cap.

There's different ways to introduce competitive balance that doesn't involve digging into athlete's pockets.

 

[Stop_It_5]

No salary cap in baseball doesn't allow one team to dominate, it just allows the Yankees, Redsox, Dodgers, Cubs, etc to never go through a significant stretch of losing. They can swallow any mistakes they make and keep the machine rolling.

A bad contract or two in basketball and you're basically crippled until they run their course.

 

[duckbutta]

Without a salary cap then it turns into whoever the riches teams are...so the Knicks and Lakers are just buying everyone and fielding these 600 million dollar teams every year...

 

[badboys11]

I don't think so


at the Knicks in the finals.​

ive seen the knicks in the finals twice how is that funny?

and if u throw 40-60 mill at those players every single last one signs. knicks have the money to do that

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

No salary cap in baseball doesn't allow one team to dominate, it just allows the Yankees, Redsox, Dodgers, Cubs, etc to never go through a significant stretch of losing. They can swallow any mistakes they make and keep the machine rolling.

A bad contract or two in basketball and you're basically crippled until they run their course.

This is a good point, but I would argue that other safeguards - like lower-income teams being able to build through the draft, which keeps them competitive on the cheap, and the ability to hold a player's rights until well into their mid- to late-20s because of the way that service time works - mitigates this somewhat on the other side. It allows a team with a good FO, for example Oakland or Tampa Bay, to pressure the richer teams on a budget by drafting well, developing well, and using service time tricks to keep their best players for as cheaply as possible for as long as possible.

So maybe the answer is that if you go completely cap-less, you need the draft/lots of ways for poorer teams to hold onto their best talent for cheaper and for longer to compensate.