How next summer's agreement will reshape the NBA

There's OTHER forums besides ours?????

 

Well stated.

Repped.

 

I think it might level the playing field, but would hurt us the most out of any other team right?

 

I like it, but they can't put a hard cap in place and immediately enforce it. They have to have some sort of grace period.

 

Who's this guy truebluefan? He really wrote that?

What an egghead. He ought to start a messageboard.

 

Rather than a hard cap, why not keep the current soft cap and have non guaranteed contracts. If a player gets injured 1 or 2 years into a 5-year deal, they can get cut. If they sign a fat contract and then retire on the job, then they can get cut with no salary. The problem with the hard cap is what to do with injured players making $12,000,000.00 per season that take up too much cap space until their deal is through.

 

I don't think the players look at it that way. I think they take a much more greedy approach in the here & now. I also don't think the LaBron James's of this world care a bit about the 14th or 15th player on the roster (which will go away under a hard cap). They care about themselves first.

If the owners insist on either a hard cap or non guaranteed salaries, and thereby costing the top players the most, we'll see a lockout/strike. But it has to come if the NBA is going to survive.

 

Throughout the league there are dozens of "nobody" employees who are worried about their futures. These include scouts, training staff and numbers crunchers -- the people who do the real day-to-day work for NBA franchises -- and many of them have been told they won't be paid during a lockout; some won't even receive health benefits.


^ or freelance people on the TV crew!

 

don't you think the owners have considerable motivation to avoid a lockout as well? There is only one Paul Allen... many will be impacted by having zero revenue coming in while being on the hook for expensive agreements with their respective arenas. I doubt we see a hard cap or the end of guaranteed deals. Now is the time for posturing/tough talk, but both sides have considerable interest in seeing the show go on so I expect caving.

Btw... a hard cap would hardly level the playing field between small and big markets. Top talents garner endorsement dollars that can rival and even dwarf their playing contract and playing in a larger market balloons those dollars. Thats the main reason players so often migrate from smaller markets that drafted them to the bigger market and not vice versa

STOMP

 

You've got the PGA.

 

What I meant was that the top tier players have the leverage because people come to see them play. They are the NBA. It is also thru them most the outside revenue streams exist for all the players. Therefore, they have the influence. The other players know this and therefore listen more closely to what they have to say.

 

Agreed. Everyone is talking like a hard cap is a given. It's like a political campaign where one side (or news network) is preparing everybody for the inevitable victory of their guy, before the election.

 

Not in the winter son!