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re: NBA cba negotations: Owners asked for $45 million hard cap
Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:04 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:04 am to SlowFlowPro
If the owners want to stop losing money, they should stop overpaying for inferior players. It's as simple as that. It's not like there's like a Yankees-like team in the NBA that inflated players salaries with a 200 million dollar payroll. There's no excuse for the owners who keep offering horrible contracts year in and year out.
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Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:09 am to Bench McElroy
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If the owners want to stop losing money, they should stop overpaying for inferior players.
i've been breaching that for years, brotha
this whole "problem" is solely on the owners
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It's as simple as that. It's not like there's like a Yankees-like team in the NBA that inflated players salaries with a 200 million dollar payroll.
anymore. the knicks (and to a lesser extent, the mavs) used to perform these roles
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There's no excuse for the owners who keep offering horrible contracts year in and year out.
agreed
and it's not just the contracts...it's the length. basically when the new cba (and max annual salaries and the MLE), teams started basically paying more per actual year of value by simply giving 1-2 extra years at the end
i try to point this out when people say shite like "kobe will be making $30M in a few years." yea, he'll be making that b/c if there were a truly free market, he'd be making more RIGHT NOW than the annual cap allows. that $30M is a deferred makeup payment
Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:12 am to Bench McElroy
quote:I'm not well-versed enough in business to get why this doesn't make perfect sense.
If the owners want to stop losing money, they should stop overpaying for inferior players. It's as simple as that. It's not like there's like a Yankees-like team in the NBA that inflated players salaries with a 200 million dollar payroll. There's no excuse for the owners who keep offering horrible contracts year in and year out.
If Joe Blow offers his services, and he asks for $100 million a year for them, and I think that's too much, I probably should not agree to give him that much. I don't understand why the owners need a rule to solve this.
Latrell Sprewell is out of the NBA because nobody ponied up to his asking price. Barry Bonds is out of baseball because, among other reasons, nobody ponied up to his asking price. The NBA should be treating many, many more players this way.
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