What can the league realistically do?

I know people are pissed and it's extremely frustrating that the Warriors are going to be the most talented starting five of all time, but what can the league do?

No rules were broken (except for tampering)

The most you can do is have a franchise tag to prevent something like what happened to OKC or to us last summer with LMA to guarantee that the other team is compensated.

I guess there could be a hard cap..... but that would suck for everybody.

 

Probably just have to make it almost stupid to leave your current team after so many years. Either that or make it almost impossible for a team to sign another teams UFA. Not sure how that would look?

 

Franchise tag.

That's about the only thing I can think of. But guys like LMA and Durant are taking LESS money to sign with contenders, so I'm not sure if more years will really do anything.

 

It has to be stupid money, IMO. It will be tough to get something in the CBA. Players will strike

 

And then we will see the NBA go off the rails because the owners will throw a fit about how high the contracts are.

 

Ya, it's going to be really interesting come next June 30th

 

The league controls the game results through officiating, any time they feel it necessary.

So nothing has changed leaguewise.

Also, I don't see GS as being anything better than they were this year, really. You can't have 6 on the court so for them to get Durant is really just making their bench another man deeper, and possibly upsetting their chemistry.

 

Hard cap or designated cap slots.

 

In the words of Nate Bishop, do we really need another thread for this?

 

This is a completely separate topic. Superstars leaving their teams to go form super teams. It is a growing issue.

We can't have the durant to warriors thread as the catchall for all NBA related topics.

 

I dont see the big deal. it is what it is. injuries can happen to so their lock on the finals is nowhere near 100%

 

Keep the rules to one basketball on the court at a time?

I think we will see less curry miracle threes being taken...might be a good thing?

 

Hard cap would be interesting.

 

I hate to repeat myself, too much, but here it goes...

This is the logical result of the cap going up so much and so quickly.
It'll happen again next year, in spades. Westbrick is probably already scheming.
It'll take 5 or 6 years AFTER next year for things to settle back down...

but until then, the rich will continue to get richer.

The league wanted to stretch things out, and if that happened GS couldn't afford this at all. It's the player's union who insisted on leaving the cap the way it is.
The league can try stuff like franchise player tag, but it will only shorten, at best, the 4-5 year period.

I'm afraid, Winter is Coming, and it looks like it's going to be a long one.

 

The league could uncap salaries. No way the Warriors could do this if teams could offer Durant $40-50 million a year.

They could do that, but they won't. Parity is nice, but protecting owners' bottom line is paramount.

 

We need to make a short term transfer rule, we must give Cleveland all our power for when they play the Warriors again in the finals...

 

They can abolish small market teams and just leave the big market teams. Namely, LA, New York, and Miami among a few others.

 

I think a franchise tag would be good, just so teams that lose their main player get something in return. Though super stars usually bolt to good teams with very low 1st round picks. Would a hard cap have prevented the last few cases such as this? I think Miami and Golden State cleared enough space to sign these guys as FAs under the cap. The NBA cap is "hard" in relation to signing free agents.