I'd prefer the modifications made in the last CBA over the way the NFL does it with huge signing bonuses. Pick your poison. How would your proposal look?
I think you should be able to cut any player from your team and only have to pay a third of his remaining contract. Still gives players tons of guarantee money. Gives teams the option of spending some of the money on more deserving players that can help the product on the floor. In total it wouldn't save the owners anything, the players are guarenteed 50/50 split or revenue regardless of the amount of contracts out there. But it would allow teams to reconstruct rosters. It would help out those deserving players who are healthy and underpaid. So for instance the Knicks could cut Amare and Bargnani in the summer for next season. They would only have to pay Amare $7.8 million and Bargnani $3.8 million. But it would save the Knicks $23.3 million of salary. It still partially penalizes teams for giving out dumb contracts, and it gives the players millions to not have to play basketball. It is really bad for the sport right now to have overpaid player on rosters that the team doesn't want there and the player only goes through the motions to collect a massive paycheck.
I would rather face the thunder with Westbrook just to test where we are as a team BUT it is nice that Lillard's all-star chances just went from something like 30% to 80%. A spot is more or less his to lose now.
In this instance, it's the only reason that matters. The players and owners both want big piles of money and are willing to accept the injuries and fatigue that go along with an 82 game schedule.
No worries, we faced them with Westbrook, result was a blazer win and a very sad Westbrook. In fact. Blazers have beat spurs, okc, pacers, clippers, and rockets, and only lost to rockets in that group. You can rest assured we are elite.
We have yet to play any of those teams on the road. Wondering how we will respond. The Thunder game will still be a huge test even without Westbrook.
also wondering how we will avoid overlooking a fired up Pelicans team sandwiched between Miami at home and 2nd of back to back OKC on the road
Hey guys, play nice. We all know how this feels. I feel for the Thunder fans. Here's hoping we maintain our health. Every day is a blessing.
I thought this was going to put him out for the rest of the season. Was beginning to think Portland was destined out west.
Yeah, i can't believe I just said that. I'm just incredibly superstitious about injuries right now lol.
But the Blazers play too many minutes! They won't contend if they have an injury! No one talked about the "ya buts" with OKC. Funny how that works. When it was Portland, the Nation didn't blink. It wasn't the LAL so nothing to see here. A blip on the radar, and just another sad story. Well, here is my single tear, and it's time to move onto a new race horse OKC fanboys (skip bayless...) So, with Kobe and Westbrick out, Lillard is an All-Star... and now Batum/Matthews have a shot? That's my take away. Oh, and see ya in OKC Barkley.
Unrelated to Westbrick (fluke accident) and Kobe (he's a dinosaur in NBA years), but sometimes it takes something like this to get the conversation started. I'm all for 70 or 76 games.
Let's play the Lakers 666 games a season. I want back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-backs. BURN BITCHES BURN MUAHAHAHAHA.
Jackson is decent but he's still not proven and the hype is more hope than based on a resume. Like Lance Stevenson, who "leads the league in triple doubles" but has scored 2 points the last 3 times he's played Portland.
