Event Around the 2025 NBA Draft & Offseason Madness!

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  1. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    The league is roughly a 50/50 split between players and owners. Instead of making the stars, the players that fans come to see and watch on TV, take less, why not have something like owners can increase their team's salary cap by taking 40% instead of 50% every 2 out of 5 years. The salaries would still be calculated on the 50/50, so the stars would still be paid the same, but teams would have the ability, for a few years at a time, to pay role players and make lopsided trades.
     
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    Yeah I do think Brady/Duncan taking less money contributed to them winning such a large number of titles. Yes it means their titles aren't as impressive as for instance Jokic carrying his team with a handful of spare parts to a title. Or Jordan earning 130% of the salary cap himself on his final two titles. Brady/Duncan routinely had stacked rosters.

    Brady/Duncan still might be two of the best ever at their positions either way. Part of the reason I'm not a titles or bust kind of sports fan - so many factors besides how good the individual player is.

    Booker will never be on the levels of any of these guys and I don't believe he can be the best player on a team that wins a title. Phoenix probably can never win and I don't know contenders will ever value him as a top NBA player so makes sense for him individually to just grab whatever money he can.

    I prefer all the NBA players get whatever contract they can and its up to the NBA to have systems that make the competition fair as well as good decisions by teams management. I mean we could have Giannis, Luka, Jokic all sign for the minimum with some team next season and that team would be a massive favorite for the title. I would hate that.
     
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    not when you think about it in the proper perspective. After all, it's only $138........per minute....every minute of every day of every week of every month for 2 years

    and there's even more perspective: that 145M extension will be tacked on after his current deal that has a 3 year balance of 171M remaining. So, he's basically got a 5-year/316M contract. More than 63M/year for 5 years. Now that's some special kind of inflation protection (although with Trump you never know)

    if you made $50,000 a year. it would only take you 6,300 years to earn 316M. Of course, if you got 2.5 weeks of vacation a year and you only took half of it, after that 6300 years you could take a 151 year vacation....relax, you earned it
     
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    I’ll pick you for a percentage. Let’s say I just accept a measly 5% of that $100 million a year for 5 years.
    Sounds good to me.
    Go get em dog!
     
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    DEAL! Get 'er done!
     
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    looks like Duncan didn't really take less money until he was 36. Well, slightly less than max at 34. He was maxed out in salary for 4 of their 5 championships. He earned over 245M

    I don't know about Brady. The NFL has a different structure though
     
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    Yeah thought it was bizarre they dumped him for 2nd round pick. Where were these vets when we had years of junk forwards around DameCJ?

    I don't think they need to cut as many vets as they have, that roster might not even win 20 games now.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Remember back when people were saying Cooper Flagg was upset that the Jazz didn’t get the #1 pick? :biglaugh:
     
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    Why do people think it's bizarre that they dumped him for a 2nd round pick.... they basically got the same value that they traded for him.

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    He doesn't have much value. It's kind of like Jerami Grant. Not sure why Cronin supposedly thought he was worth two firsts. We only sent out 1 first.
     
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    Replace Oden with Walton.
     
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    You'd think at some point owners would say that no team can afford to tie up more than a third of the salary cap in any one player. I get that the top players are worth every penny of that to a contending team, but it's almost impossible to maintain a contending team around those players, and injuries to the star leave a team totally decimated the way that Boston and Indiana are now.
     
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    HELL NO!
     
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    okc overpaid 3 players for 5 years
     
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    My reply was to comments about how Collins got the Jazz a lot of wins last year. Back when Utah acquired him he had a huge contract. Now it's an expiring deal.

    My point was how the Blazers had a decade of forwards way worse than Collins and couldn't get anybody close to Collins level to help that DameCJ duo. We had a number of productive centers in Plumlee/Ed Davis/ pre injury Nurk. We had to start Turner/Crabbe/Bazemore/Aminu/Harkless etc. junk forwards. I would have loved to have two-three Collins/Grant type of players on some of those rosters instead.

    We sent our what 5 FRP for Covington/Zach Collins/Nance. Never had a good forward acquired for these cheap 2nd round pick value.

    I suppose that was the big downside of the Blazers always having overpaid contract in those eras. We weren't able to take on any good vet salary since we blew our cap on a bunch of shit.
     
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    Booker salary in all those years is 35% of the cap. That's the max.
     

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