i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

batum wld be good as heck on the dubs

agreed

Always seems like he's out with something. Also played through a bad toe for like 1/3 of the last season and his production dipped. that 70+ games per year is kinda surprising

dubs can legitimately improve their team from this year's

And yes he's better than Barnes at everything. I'm all about batum

without durant i mean xp. obv durant does it

Yeah he's second on my list after durant

v much fear the improvening of the warriors. my preference is that all talent spurn them bc of 73-win jinx.

like i wish ppl would stop talking like KD to the warriors is a distinct reality bc it makes me v v mad, way more mad than lebron and everybody going to miami bc they took a mediocre heat team into a juggernaut. kd would take a juggernaut into a word that should be illegal to say aloud.

*whispers* a fuckernaut

the way i see it, there were 4 teams that were legit contenders and kd leaving okc for gs or sa would mean theres 3, right? bc okc would barely make the playoffs without him.

Thems the breaks when you have an mvp making the 6th most on the team

thats...that is NOT what kurtis blow said, those ARE NOT the breaks

Otm

*mounts hobby horse* this is a problem that is immediately solved with a hard cap and no max salary imo

for the sake of my own entertainment i don't really want the nba to turn into the nhl.

oh not that, to clarify i think there should limits on contract lengths bc fuck 12 year contracts or w/e, but a player should be able to make as much as a team is willing to pay within the cap (so i guess its still a de facto max salary but just a way way higher ceiling)

i agree with eliminating max salaries but hard caps are so boring for roster management junkies of which i am increasingly one

Are you all a bunch of CPAs or quants or something? Cap management makes me zzz.

no it's just that the more ways you can fuck w/the cap the more options are open and the more crazy things you can discuss.

i like the nba being biased towards teams retaining stars

i have a hard time feeling bad for people making 25 million a year missing out on money because of max salaries

the problem this year is the cap jump which cldve been avoided by denominating contracts as a % of the cap instead of in dollars

i've actually never heard that floated before, that's a pr obvious and smart idea

thx

crazy thing is its in some way already the case, players get 50% of revenue

(also getting rid of max salaries)

That sounds like profit sharing!

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gotta man

what your man got to do with me?

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i have a hard time feeling bad for people making 25 million a year missing out on money because of max salaries

― k3vin k., Monday, June 27, 2016 10:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't really either but what other industry has a max salary? It's not like there's some tech commissioner telling Tim Cook his salary has to be capped so things are fair to google. If someone wants to pay Lebron (entire cap minus 14 minimum contracts) and see what happens I'd kind of be all for it!

Though I guess it's all fallout from sports leagues being arranged as one business entity that splits things 30 ways so maybe that analogy is bad

the hawks want in on the KD party, which is understandable, if they get immediately spurned their next priority is........dwight, which is not

Anyway Batum would be rad on the Warriors way better than Barnes and kinda underrated

its prob also in the league's interest to prevent stupid teams from being able to handicap themselves too badly e.g. the current state of brooklyn nets is about as bad as things can get within the rules

individual player salary max also reflects the fact that the players union is primarily made up of non max players who want a bigger slice of the pie

middle class wants more

i actually like how byzantine the nba salary structure is its fun + funny

if you're gonna have a cap you might as well have a max salary just to protect the owners from themselves imo

the current structure feels like it works really well in keeping the good players distributed around the league, i would think long and hard before changing anything big

i think if there was a cap but no max you would see the best players distributed in a weirdly even way. there would be no way for a team to keep i.e. durant and westbrook together unless they mutually agreed to turn down $50 million per year contracts from other teams

and if there was no cap mark cuban would have like a $350 million payroll and it would be weird & bad

so in that sense i think cap/max makes the most sense esp when you consider that the guys who get screwed the most are also the most marketable athletes in the world and make a bunch of money off the court

if i was going to change anything about the cap/salary structure it would be how long it takes players to get into unrestricted free agency. that durant's career has gone through like 5 revolutions before he has even had the chance to choose what team he plays for -- or that demarcus cousins has never been an unrestricted FA -- is crazy.

yeah the current setup lets you actually assemble a Big Three but prevents Big Fours and makes it difficult to keep Threes together for an extended time, that seems like a good spot to land imo

we don't want to stray too far from the NBA Jam Ideal where every team has 2 good players

if i was going to change anything about the cap/salary structure it would be how long it takes players to get into unrestricted free agency. that durant's career has gone through like 5 revolutions before he has even had the chance to choose what team he plays for -- or that demarcus cousins has never been an unrestricted FA -- is crazy.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, June 28, 2016 12:36 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well both of them cldve been free agents after 5 years theres just such a huge incentive to sign that first max deal since yr team cn offer it to you early