Why would you assume the best teams would have more money available under the cap?

Say Golden State has $2mil under the cap but Minnesota has $12mil, you think a rookie is going to leave $10mil on the table to go to a winner?

Remember, the better teams will have better players which likely means a higher salary closer to the hard cap.

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Posted by apfour21

New Orleans, LA

Member since Nov 2012

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Posted on 5/18/16 at 4:25 pm to shel311

Shoe companies would pay them more for joining certain teams in certain markets or with their current players. Nike or whoever would pay BS way more to join Team A as opposed to Team B and he'd end up making more money but wouldn't affect the cap.

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Posted by CoastTrashTiger

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Member since May 2015

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Posted on 5/18/16 at 5:45 pm to shel311

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Say Golden State has $2mil under the cap but Minnesota has $12mil, you think a rookie is going to leave $10mil on the table to go to a winner?

Remember, the better teams will have better players which likely means a higher salary closer to the hard cap.

You cannot just throw arguments out like this as generalities. Take David West going to SAS and what he left on the table, yes it is not $10 mil, but the point still remains guys especially later in their career, and especially specialists will take less money.

My ideas are this, no max contracts, but keep the current luxury tax system in place, for a lot of truly "small market teams" the money this has made has been the difference between P&L. Make the NBADL truly 30 and 30, meaning there is a greater farm system, and the NBA draft rules you can enter straight out of HS or prep school but if you attend college must stay at least 2 years. Also make there no limit whether by age or reason to when foreign players can come over and enter the draft. Make NBA rosters 14 and spread out the calendar year of games.

Basketball is so hard because obviously with fewer players on a physical playing surface regardless of sport, the superstars have more leverage and they truly decide teams fates. This is why as most know, you have real tanking every year teams are angling for only 2-3 stars that may come out of a given year. Do away with the lottery and make it strictly record based, this creates it to where you have fewer teams "tanking", the teams in the 6-14 range will want to win more. Also an idea I have always had was allowing for compensation sort of like the MLB does for teams at either the end of "lottery" or first round for teams that lose stars in free agency.

While no league is perfect, the NBA feels more and more every year where its players playing against each other than teams in the playoffs. While yes it is a smaller sport by total number of teams, you look at those years it was the 96 Bulls not Jordan and the Bulls. For most it will be Lebron and the Cavs, etc..

Just my two cents, nothing is ever perfect