Started By
Message

re: Kobe rips AAU basketball

Posted on 1/5/15 at 3:03 pm to
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
62056 posts
Posted on 1/5/15 at 3:03 pm to
quote:

I'm not sure who steps up to pay the tab.


Maybe the players? The owners smoothing proposal was apparently designed to take money out of the cap (but not away from the players) to keep individual salaries down. Maybe they can take that same principle but use it in a way that the union would go for. Take $3-5 million from the new TV money cap increase, increase the number of roster spots and require a number of DLeague assignments per team. Why would the players go for it? It'd be a bit of a hard sell with a high paid SuperStar as union president, but I have to think they'd see some value in creating more NBA jobs and a legit alternative to Euroleague.
Posted by corndeaux
Member since Sep 2009
9634 posts
Posted on 1/5/15 at 3:28 pm to
For sure they have to give up some of their $, but I doubt they do that without owners tossing some $ in too. $ is the big problem: why pay for something that is good enough and free?

Here's an idea from HP.com about creating an NBA Academy that houses players for all teams for grades 9-12. Interesting idea, I doubt we ever see anything like it though.

LINK
first pageprev pagePage 1 of 1Next pagelast page
refresh

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookTwitterInstagram