It also creates the Donald Sterlings of the league. He purposefully keeps his team under the cap and stinking so that he can reap the rewards from the luxury cap teams.
I hope the Blazers can compete for a title next season. Nobody knows if there will be a season in 2011-12. It would suck in epic proportions if this pirate battle deprived Blazer fans of one of the best years out of our title window.
This "leak" is a classic anchoring strategy. As long as there are bat shit crazy owners in the Euroleague, the NBA doesn't have the massive leverage they'd need to enact such draconian rules.
Well, in any given season you have maybe 1/4th or 1/5th of all the players running into free agency. You probably could start a new league if you had a little money and a lot of ambition. Start with six teams, put them in Pittsburgh and St Louis and shit so that the fan base isn't torn, fill them out with free agents, wait to see if owners (who are demanding a price reduction) will match restricted free agent contracts, also draft picks don't have any contractual obligations anyway... Okay, there's not a lot of money in that right off, but I bet you could really get the owners' attention. I'm not really for or against a side, I just hate it when sports do lockouts and strikes. Fuck 'em.
