The Second Apron is ruining the NBA

[yseJ]

A team like OKC who drafted smartly, made the right trades to win a title with a young core can’t be long term because of the second apron. Now a bad org who do none of those things can offer a lot of money to break that group up.

I have always had that issue with the NFL cap as well.

If you draft well, you should not be penalized. If you make smart moves like Boston, you shouldn't be penalized that harshly.

You should be penalized for building your team thru free agency and signing stars from elsewhere.

I can agree with that. There should be an exception for teams who drafted well, specifically for those players.

 

[Left.A1]

at preventing teams from going over the soft cap, obviously.

I mean allowing teams to not have a rigid spending line and freedoms to adjust depending on situation was the whole point of having a SOFT cap in the first place

The luxury tax is a lot of money, and it was meant to act as a major deterrent.

It had been, do you know how many teams a year paid the luxury tax?

Aside from that what is this second apron deterring exactly? To deter teams from drafting well? To deter teams from keeping their competent rosters intact? To deter franchises avoiding giving fans a more diluted and weaker product


Select teams were spending major money because the calculation clearly was that winning = profit

How dumb to get in the way of that

 

[mastermind]

I can agree with that. There should be an exception for teams who drafted well, specifically for those players.

These limitations always hurts the organizations that are good at what they do. Now because they are good, they eventually figure out how to reap off the new system, but it should not be like that. It also hurts players as well. Jokic had a good situation in Denver and won, but now has to face the choice of getting a super max in Denver but being a treadmill team as that organization can’t put the pieces around him or demand a trade.

These restrictions are mostly for mediocre to bad organizations to catch lightening in a bottle imo.

 

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What else is ruining the NBA?

 

[42 Monks]

A team like OKC who drafted smartly, made the right trades to win a title with a young core can’t be long term because of the second apron. Now a bad org who do none of those things can offer a lot of money to break that group up.

I have always had that issue with the NFL cap as well.

If you draft well, you should not be penalized. If you make smart moves like Boston, you shouldn't be penalized that harshly.

You should be penalized for building your team thru free agency and signing stars from elsewhere.

OKC one of the teams that paid attention. When they trade off guys, they're not going to be handing them off for nothing like the Kings or something. And they got young 1st round guys that haven't even seen minutes like that ready to step in too.

Presti isn't going to lose sleep selling high on Williams or Dort.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I hate it from a fan standpoint but it does force these sack a shyt CAC GMs to do actual work with scouting and drafting players

 

[MicIsGod]

As much as i hate it, the aprons eventually will settle all of the teams to a certain level and some shyt like the Kd warriors or the 23 Celtics just won’t be possible. Only teams that draft extremely well will get those type of teams and even they can’t keep everyone. I feel like there were other options to fix the super team shyt and they went with the laziest one.