It happens in baseball...but that's because each has a buy-out option. So it costs each side money to turn down their option. But are there buy-out options in basketball? I haven't heard of any.
according to canzano, the jazz are trying to get the league to extend the deadline another day to saturday..so right now they have till friday edit: lol wrong thread
It's funny how even among fans (and journalists) who believe they are "cap experts", so few of them realize that if Roy signs a max extension it has nothing to do with the 2009-10 cap.
A friend is ranked in the top 125 on the forbes CEO compensation ranking, and makes in the neighborhood of Kidd in terms of compensation. While there are fewer members of the second team all nba, i am not sure i follow your argument that it is easier to move into that ranking list... CEO of YAHOO apple, or NIKE doesn't come up on monster.com very often. to get that rate of pay he had to found the company, controls 4% of the stock, and takes 90%+ of his compensation in the form of stock revenue. actual salary is only .5 million.
