Player contracts in a free market?

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  1. Denny Crane

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    It does matter what I think. I'm a fan. Without me, they make no money to pay the players or profit for the owners.

    What I think is the trend is toward one or two star players per team and a roster full of D Leaguers because they don't demand paychecks that screw up the CBA roster parameters.
     
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    You're just trying to taunt Dviss into posting!
     
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    Not because the talent pool is diluted? What about back in the late 90s when contracts were larger? That was way better?
     
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    I think so, it was better.

    The 97-98 Knicks had Ewing, Houston, and Grandmama. The last place 76ers had Iverson, Coleman, Stackhouse, and Jim Jackson.

    The Bulls let Asik walk for nothing over a $5M + $5M + $15M contract - only because the $15M was a CBA issue.

    Wouldn't the Bulls be less diluted if they could keep Asik, Ben Gordon, Jamal Crawford, Tyson Chandler, etc.?

    I don't think it's true for the Bulls only. Look at OKC having to get rid of Harden.

    Or think of this year's Blazers if PA had called Olshey into his office and wrote him a check for $15M to buy a bench.
     
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    Why stop at a free market for salaries? Surely each club should be able to set its own schedule. Why should the Lakers be forced to play shitty clubs like the Pelicans when they could be playing the Knicks ten times? A TRUE free market would have each team be like the Harlem Globetrotters, ready to go where the money is. Each team would be like a boxer, free to agree to whatever fight best suited it. Anything else would smack of socialism!
     
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    The teams have set their own schedules. The Bulls don't play in Chicago early in the season because the stadium is unavailable due to Ringling Brothers being in town.

    If they don't want to play the Pelicans, they'll fold the team.

    And the teams are franchises in a larger entity known as the NBA. There are teams outside the NBA that make their own schedules exactly as you describe. The Globetrotters are a perfect example.
     
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