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Thank goodness for that....!!!

Ain't gonna happen. This is where the players draw their line in the sand.
A hard cap would be terrible for the game. So Portland offers $17M + one dollar for Deron because the Jazz only have $17M left? I realize the NFL has a hard cap, but you have 53 per team. It's a lot easier to move parts around to stay under the cap.

I don't think there's too much wrong with the current set-up. Teams have a pretty good range to work with in between the cap and luxury tax. You can generally hold on to your own players, unless they're dead set on going elsewhere (LBJ) or they get an exorbitant offer from another team (Matthews). Maybe give teams more protection of their 2nd-round picks and undrafted players. Wesley making MLE vs. guys like Tyreke, Jennings, etc. being on a rookie scale for 4 years seems unfair. And perhaps devise a way to make it even more attractive for FA's to re-sign with their original teams.

The game ain't broke - and neither are the owners. They keep overspending on FA's. One thing we know...even if the players make concessions, nobody is going to lower ticket or beer prices.
 
GlassEater said:
Ain't gonna happen. This is where the players draw their line in the sand.
A hard cap would be terrible for the game. So Portland offers $17M + one dollar for Deron because the Jazz only have $17M left?
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I sincerely hope and am pretty confident that Deron wouldn't leave over $1.
 
GlassEater said:
Ain't gonna happen. This is where the players draw their line in the sand.

I don't think there's too much wrong with the current set-up.
The game ain't broke - and neither are the owners. They keep overspending on FA's. One thing we know...even if the players make concessions, nobody is going to lower ticket or beer prices.
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....ain't much wrong with the game? When you have slop dummies like Boozer and Klinko making between $150,000-$200,000 PER GAME...a lot is WRONG! I agree, the owners are stupid as the day is long.....and they ain't gonna pass on no savings to no fans....but they are the owners.....and paying these clowns that much money just ain't gonna happen on this next CBA! Yeah, the players can draw a line in the sand....and then half of them will be standing in the unemployment line shortly thereafter!
 
...I know that owner for the Wizards just got fined 100 grand for his hard cap statement...but just think!.....when it becomes a reality, he will save that in less than one game by not paying that much to knot-heads like Boozer and others!
 
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/story...nsis-nba-owners-may-soften-stance-on-hard-cap

Interesting read on implementing ahard cap.

So the Lakers either have to play 5 on 3 or an exception will have to be made. And Miami would have a hard time filling a roster. NO WAY is Stern doing anything to hurt either franchise. The Miami games will get huge ratings this season. And if it comes down to Miami-LA in the FINALS, viewership around the US and world will be through the roof.

If the owners insist on a hard cap, it will be a year-long lockout. Minimum.
The only thing I could ever see happening is tightening up the exceptions with a hard cap phased in over the course of the next 5 years. That allows everyone currently signed to a 6-year deal to have a new contract by the time a hard cap is in place.
 
I can see a reduction in the percentage of BRI (maybe 57% to 54%), a reduction in contract length, and maybe an increase in the escrow percentage (say from 10 to may 15). Not a hard cap.
 
GlassEater said:
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/story...nsis-nba-owners-may-soften-stance-on-hard-cap

Interesting read on implementing ahard cap.
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"It took a lost season for the NHL Players Association to finally agree to a hard cap, and the players had to swallow a 24 percent rollback on existing contracts, too. If the NBA went that route, the owners would also have to accept their thriving sport imploding before their eyes; imagine LeBron James and Dwyane Wade squaring off against Kobe Bryant on the Versus Network, all with 25 percent pay cuts."

....wouldn't bother me a bit! As you know, I practically puke my guts out now...watching these tattooed clowns ruin the game with their palming, traveling, carrying the ball, etc. etc. etc!
 
One Brow said:
I can see a reduction in the percentage of BRI (maybe 57% to 54%), a reduction in contract length, and maybe an increase in the escrow percentage (say from 10 to may 15). Not a hard cap.
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"Do you really think David Stern is going to shut down his league on July 1, a few days after the greatest season in NBA history?" said the person familiar with the NBA labor talks, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss league issues.

YES!...Absolutely yes! Here's why: (2 Timothy 3:1-4) 3 But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2*For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3*having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4*betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], .*.*.
 
"The NBA is going down fast , just retract 25 teams already . 25 teams in the NBA will never have a shot at a title . Its a joke sports full of bad talent. Just when one of the 25 teams that will never win gets a talent ( Cleveland Ladork ) they will lose him to free agency to one of 5 teams or be forced to trade them to one of them 5 teams because they dont want to play there (Denver Melo). The NBA will die soon, I think syncronised swimming is already ahead of them!"

....now your talkin!!!
 
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