Stern: Player Salaries to Be Cut By 1/3

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  1. BGrantFan

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    Here comes a work stoppage!

    http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5711172&campaign=rss&source=NBAHeadlines

     
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    Their salaries should be cut. But it's hard to take high salaries away once you've given them. No one would like that.
     
    VanillaGorilla, Oct 22, 2010
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    well its a good thing I will have Ducks football and MLS next year to get me through part of the work stoppage. January- March I'm screwed though.
     
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    If they go to a hard cap (which is well below the LT) and grandfather in the existing contracts, they would reach their stated salary levels. When it comes time for the big contract guys to renew, they're going to suffer a big pay cut though.
     
    Denny Crane, Oct 22, 2010
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    But 2/3rds of a salary will look pretty damn good after they go an entire season without any salary.

    The players unions is going to get pummeled worse than the UCLA Bruins did last night.
     
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    The only way around that is to go with the NFL model of non-guaranteed contract, but with cap implications for simply cutting a high-salary player.

    Is there any way the players' union is going to go from guaranteed contracts now to non-guaranteed contracts with a 33% reduction to the overall pool?

    I'll be interested to see which major NBA star decides to go to a team like Real Madrid in order to make millions per year more than they will in the NBA. That's really the only leverage the players have, IMO. Either threaten to go overseas with star players, or try and start their own league, which would be near impossible.
     
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    Will the owners, and Stern, give up 1/3 of their income?
     
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    Maybe the replacement Blazers will win the championship!
     
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    Why should they?
     
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    Why should their salaries be cut?
     
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    Paul Allen has given up over half of his wealth.

    Actually he's lost it in bad investments but same difference.

    Not sure I get what point you're trying to make.
     
    SlyPokerDog, Oct 22, 2010
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    So owners will be able to pay for the players Obamacare.
     
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    What's quite alarming is that the NBA is even thinking about contraction.

    That's a lot of people losing their jobs if that happens.
     
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    New Orleans can't be making money. Charlotte can't be making money. Cleveland won't be making much money. Does anybody in Toronto care about the Raptors?

    That's 4 teams that may be on a future chopping block. If the economy really is in a "new normal" with double unemployment and lower wages than even 4 years ago, then it would make sense for the NBA to contemplate getting rid of dead weight.
     
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    I don't consider the thousands of employees for those teams and their families to be dead weight. I consider Eddy Curry, and his 11.3$ million salary to be dead weight. Player salaries and guaranteed contracts are the problem, not the Raptors.
     
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    I'll be a scab player! Like the old school movie The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh!
     
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    ROFL I totally forgot about that movie. It was totally kick ass. Wasn't Dr. J in that movie?
     
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    Why when I post a link, it just shows the link, not the movie window?
     
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