Small Market Complaints About 'Tampering"

The question was would it bother you. And whoever you took them from were bothered. Unless they were shitty employees. And were those friends under a contract with their employer? Probably not. If they were they probably violated the contract. Going to dinner? Sure. And I think it’s hard to compare NBA players to the rest of us in normal jobs. You have 14 guys who make a shit ton of money who are under contract with a team. Nobody should be tampering with anyone.

 

In the end it's always the large markets that fuck the small markets in the ass anyway.

 

Furthermore, the entire reason they make so much money is because of how hard their skill set is to replace. The tougher it is to gain entry into an occupation, the better it pays, generally. If your buddy gets hired away by another company, chances are a thousand other guys can do just as good of a job by next week.

 

Eh, idk about that. The skill level is so volatile in highly technical jobs.

 

Lakers will piss in New Oeleans pocket and then tell then it's "just raining." Nothing new here. That's the NBA for you. Fuck the underdog.

 

Read up on labor economics.

 

Lol. Textbooks don't teach you everything bruh. I'm well aware of labor economics. I have 2 bachelor's degrees in business related subjects. I'm telling you, technical skillsets can be very volatile. The lack of tax professionals that actually know what they are doing is terrifying, for example.

Is that a skill as valuable as playing basketball? Well, no. But the likelihood of picking someone off the streets that knows everything just as well is not as good as you would think.

 

I disagree. Professional athletes while is a skillset is still part of the entertainment industry along with actors, musicians and artists. Load up a 747 full of everyone in the entertainment industry all the big names and it crashes tragic though it might be. Outside of their families and agents no ones life is really affected. Fill that same plane up with farmers, ranchers, CEO's of large companies, mechanics and welders and crash that same plane and you will see food prices rise, stock market drop, oil prices rise and a lot of people late for work. All the while no one will really mourn them but their families the whole world will be affected. Within 2 years the entertainment industry will have all the replacements in play on the first jet. On the second plane it takes many years to replace those skill levels

 

Well fill it up with CEO’s and politicians... nevermind...

 

CEO's create jobs, politicians dont

 

I agree from that perspective.

 

Couldn't agree more. Anyway, how would you police players from recruiting others.
The NBA is Marketing Machine and larger markets will always having and advantage, just like with any other industry.