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NBA Team Salaries: Cavs = Yankees?
Posted on 6/20/16 at 11:57 am
Posted on 6/20/16 at 11:57 am
2015-2016 Team Salaries of final four playoff teams:
(1) Cleveland = $108,300,458
(4) Golden State = $93,631,286
(3) OKC = $95,708,387
(24) Toronto = $71,337,189
Extremely happy for the city of Cleveland. I just remember people would always say the Yankee's bought their championships. Are the Cavs any different this year?
Also, whatever they are doing in Toronto seems to be working
(1) Cleveland = $108,300,458
(4) Golden State = $93,631,286
(3) OKC = $95,708,387
(24) Toronto = $71,337,189
Extremely happy for the city of Cleveland. I just remember people would always say the Yankee's bought their championships. Are the Cavs any different this year?
Also, whatever they are doing in Toronto seems to be working
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Posted on 6/20/16 at 11:58 am to Mickey Goldmill
Shaking my damn head
Posted on 6/20/16 at 11:58 am to Mickey Goldmill
quote:
Are the Cavs any different this year?
It's different because of the salary cap/CBA in the NBA.
Not comparable.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:00 pm to Mickey Goldmill
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I just remember people would always say the Yankee's bought their championships.
Every professional team buys a championship
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:01 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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It's different because of the salary cap/CBA in the NBA.
Not comparable.
True, NBA teams can't exceed the cap as much as MLB teams can.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:04 pm to Mickey Goldmill
Well with GS you have to factor in that Steph, a 2x MVP, is on a half-max contract. One of the best bargains in sports history.
This post was edited on 6/20/16 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:09 pm to Mickey Goldmill
I actually think the NBA has by far the best salary structure in sports. Guaranteed contracts, soft cap, revenue sharing, and teams are awarded for drafting and developing well because the NBA allows them to offer more money to keep their homegrown players. With the way the NBA is set up, there can be dominant teams AND parity with the smaller market teams. It's the perfect system.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:17 pm to Mickey Goldmill
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True, NBA teams can't exceed the cap as much as MLB teams can.
Well yea, especially since the MLB doesn't have a cap.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:17 pm to Bench McElroy
Agreed. NFL is dumb because the guaranteed money issue and baseball is dumb because most players get their big deals when they are hitting close to the end of their prime or at worst the middle of it in most cases. I like the NBAs the best.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:18 pm to Bench McElroy
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With the way the NBA is set up, there can be dominant teams AND parity with the smaller market teams. It's the perfect system.
This system still tends to favor larger markets because of the luxury tax.
If OKC was NY or LA they just take the hit and keep Harden a couple of years back.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:24 pm to Goldrush25
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LA they just take the hit and keep Harden a couple of years back.
Lakers are actually one of the least financially "able" franchises imo.
Virtually every other owner generates the majority of his or her wealth from something outside of basketball. Sure, most owners aren't going to continue dumping money into a losing team, but they could if they wanted to.
The Buss family's wealth is derived from the Lakers. They don't have some unrelated external source to subsidize them.
Sure OKC may also fall into this, as their owners are heavy into O&G, but a guy like Michael Jordan can probably outspend the Lakers, as the bulk of his money comes from Jordan Brand/Nike.
I guess you could say the Bensons fall into this as well. While they have other ventures, the Saints and Pelicans are their primary source of wealth I'd imagine.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:26 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Well yea, especially since the MLB doesn't have a cap.
They have a luxury tax which is still intended to maintain salaries close to a certain figure.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:29 pm to JohnnyKilroy
quote:while this is true to an extent, the buss family generates revenue in other places like writing books and shite. But yea, ultimately the Lakers are their primary source of income. However, the lakers have like 30 million more dollars in profit than any other team so that helps
The Buss family's wealth is derived from the Lakers. They don't have some unrelated external source to subsidize them.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:33 pm to Goldrush25
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This system still tends to favor larger markets because of the luxury tax.
If OKC was NY or LA they just take the hit and keep Harden a couple of years back.
The Thunder could have easily kept Harden by trading away Ibaka instead of re-signing him. And they were able to keep Westbrook and Durant. An OKC team wouldn't be possible in MLB. OKC is very similar in market size to Milwaukee. Just imagine if the Brewers had two baseball players the caliber of Westbrook and Durant. They never would be able to keep them in a million years. Hell, the Brewers had Fielder, Braun and Grienke five years ago and was only able to re-sign one of them. By the same token, a team like the Warriors wouldn't be possible in the NFL. Either Thompson or Green would have been eventually let go and a few of their other key players such as Iguodala and Bogut probably wouldn't be there either.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:47 pm to Bench McElroy
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I actually think the NBA has by far the best salary structure in sports. Guaranteed contracts, soft cap, revenue sharing, and teams are awarded for drafting and developing well because the NBA allows them to offer more money to keep their homegrown players. With the way the NBA is set up, there can be dominant teams AND parity with the smaller market teams. It's the perfect system.
As far as parity goes, the NFL seems to have the best system in place.
Over the past 30 years, there have been 10 different NBA teams win titles.
Over the past 30 years, there have been 15 different NFL teams win titles.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:57 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:The Brewers issues had to do with Fielder and Greinke not being there as they tried to resign Fielder. They even offered Greinke 5 years 100 million. So they tried but the players did not want to be in Milwaukee.
An OKC team wouldn't be possible in MLB. OKC is very similar in market size to Milwaukee. Just imagine if the Brewers had two baseball players the caliber of Westbrook and Durant. They never would be able to keep them in a million years. Hell, the Brewers had Fielder, Braun and Grienke five years ago and was only able to re-sign one of them.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:58 pm to Mickey Goldmill
quote:Baseball has more parity
As far as parity goes, the NFL seems to have the best system in place.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:59 pm to Mickey Goldmill
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As far as parity goes, the NFL seems to have the best system in place.
Over the past 30 years, there have been 10 different NBA teams win titles.
you ain't going to have parity in the NBA unless you have an annual re-draft of all players
there is only one lebron
Posted on 6/20/16 at 1:24 pm to Bench McElroy
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With the way the NBA is set up, there can be dominant teams AND parity
Parity in the NBA? You must be joking. Only 4 teams out of 30 have a shot each year. Only 14 or so teams have won since 1980 too.
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