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NUMBERICA said:
The problem isn't that players make 57%. It's that owners have been irresponsible with the remaining 43% and have no way to get out from under their own mistakes.
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My understanding is that this is just the opposite. The ONLY real problem is that the players make 57%. How have the owners been irresponsible with the 57%? No matter if they sign Eddie Curry to a $10 Billion dollar deal or LeBron James to the league minimum, players are still taking 57% of the revenue. Can they use that 57% more wisely? Sure. But it doesn't change the fact that at 57%, the league is losing money.

The league holds back 9% of players checks to ensure that players only get 57% of the revenue, so bad contracts have nothing to do with the hundreds of millions of dollars the NBA is losing each year. The bad contracts will certainly have a negative affect on an individual team's income statement, but it won't budge the NBA's one penny.

In addition, if players are guaranteed 57% of the revenue, teams have less incentive to find additional sources of revenue (like advertising on jerseys, advertising on center court, etc) because $.57 of every dollar they earn goes right into the players checks. In addition to the extra costs to sell these things (commissions to salespeople, salaries, etc), oftentimes the league will just lose money on it. I can't imagine how frustrating this must be for owners. If it costs them $.50 to make $1, the team loses $.07.

Financially, the only thing that matters is the percentage of BRI. All the other stuff like hard-cap, guaranteed deals, deal length, games per season, etc. are all about competitive balance.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
My understanding is that this is just the opposite. The ONLY real problem is that the players make 57%. How have the owners been irresponsible with the 57%? No matter if they sign Eddie Curry to a $10 Billion dollar deal or LeBron James to the league minimum, players are still taking 57% of the revenue. Can they use that 57% more wisely? Sure. But it doesn't change the fact that at 57%, the league is losing money.
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It's obvious that the players are going to have to give back, but before getting too stuck on your line of thinking, consider the NHL. While players in the NHL still receive about 55% of revenue (per the NY Times article), the league is in good financial shape (obviously, there are a few struggling teams), despite much poorer TV deals and the current recession. With higher revenues in the NBA, and no obvious source of additional overhead (someone may be able to provide additional information here), shouldn't the NBA be able to afford to pay their players more?

eh?
 
GVC said:
It's obvious that the players are going to have to give back, but before getting too stuck on your line of thinking, consider the NHL. While players in the NHL still receive about 55% of revenue (per the NY Times article), the league is in good financial shape (obviously, there are a few struggling teams), despite much poorer TV deals and the current recession. With higher revenues in the NBA, and no obvious source of additional overhead (someone may be able to provide additional information here), shouldn't the NBA be able to afford to pay their players more?

eh?
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That's a good question. I wasn't comparing the BRI % to other sports leagues.

The only major additional cost I can think of off the top of my head is sadly, the WNBA. When the NHL opens the WNHL, they will have to cut back that salary %.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
That's a good question. I wasn't comparing the BRI % to other sports leagues.

The only major additional cost I can think of off the top of my head is sadly, the WNBA. When the NHL opens the WNHL, they will have to cut back that salary %.
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The NBA may also have additional overseas development costs not commonly associated with the other sports leagues. Those are obviously business investments though.
 
Jon Rinehart's tweet from a few weeks ago: Please note the real twitter accounts for Kanter & Favors (@Enes_Kanter, @dfavors14) have now been twitter verified. Others are impostors.

Another tweet: Yes @D_Favors is a fake. Clearly someone with nothing better to do than impersonate an NBA player and send out generic tweets.

I think we now know what Cyrone's been up to during the off-season.
 
margodydek said:
Another tweet: Yes @D_Favors is a fake. Clearly someone with nothing better to do than impersonate an NBA player and send out generic tweets.
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i really find it sad that people do this kinda stuff.

what sad man would impersonate someone and send out generic tweets.

seriously retarded
 
I just figured that was him because it had the most "followers" and it had zero activity (which seems very Derrick Favors like).
 
This is what the NBA lockout is like...

Hayward "planking":

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Caption "Locked out of ESA so I'm forced to plank at my home goal"

https://twitter.com/#!/gordonhayward/status/92056598452764672
 
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