Why hasn't the NBA Supermax Worked?

Supermax just helps small market teams keep drafted talent which isn’t the trend in the current nba. Currently, players want to join super teams and it’s better for small market teams to trade these players rather than let them walk in free agency. Trading a player under a supermax can’t be easy.

Davis would lose more than $70 million because of the tax rates in California compared to Louisiana.

Having a salary cap is one thing, but a cap on individual player salaries is terrible for small market teams.

Imagine if New Orleans could throw all of their money (whatever money that may be) at Davis, and not some arbitrary number that is capped.

However, the union loves the max salaries for players because it means more money for everyone else in the league. Max salaries are a good deal for the majority of NBA players, so they're not going away.

Let's be honest here, the only person on that list that won't make a large part of that money is Cousins. Just like Davis in NO. Super Max or not, these guys are making obscene money that it just doesnt matter.

I think they should tweak the system so that drafted players take a smaller hit to the salary cap.

Like AD's supermax gets paid out like a supermax, but in terms of the salary cap, it's the same cap hit any other team would take on if they signed him in FA. You'd have to average it over the years. For example, AD's supermax would average out to 46/year for 5 years. But what if you paid him 46, but the cap hit was only say 36 (approximately what he'd be paid on a 4 year FA max). Basically you get the big benefits roster wise of a "hometown" discount without the player having to sacrifice actual dollars.

The problem with the Supermax is that there's only one or two guys who are truly truly worth it. AND you have to be borderline perfect in every other facet of roster construction because you have so much money tied up in one guy. If you have a supermax player on your team, a guy making 12-15 million, when he should be making 7 or 8 kills you. Since you have so little cap space left over, any dollar wasted is magnified.

They should allow every team to have one player not count against the cap so you can pay them whatever you want. Every other player can be kept within a cap.

If the NBA wanted parity, and they damn well should, look at the success it brought the NFL, they could easily make it easier for teams to keep their drafted players.

Also, the talent is pretty spread out right now outside of GSW, which was a perfect storm of so many things. Those teams which caused terrible ratings in the Finals Are becoming a relic of the past with the new influx of talent in the league.

These super teams are not good for long term growtH. They will slowly decay all the markets that aren’t the major ones if every season starts with “these guys are so stacked, they’d need to get hurt for anyone else to have a shot.” Like I’ve said before, these other dynasties in the past that drew these ratings got pushed by other teams. Lebrons Heat lost two finals. The Lakers fell apart after the 3 peat but almost lost series to the Blazers and Kings. The bulls got pushed by a few teams during their reign. The Lakers and Celtics went back and forth and even had Detroit step in for a couple years.

The league doesn’t need a team we expect to go 16-1 or 16-2 in the playoffs healthy at the beginning of each season. People are already getting tired of the crap.

The fun and draw in dynasties is for everyone else who isn’t on the bandwagon to have a good time rooting for them to lose. Everyone has a vested interest. I loved rooting against the Heat and the Kobe/Shaq Lakers. I have no interest in the postseason now. The Rockets made it fun last year for a series unexpectedly, but the Finals were a joke.