The two most daunting words in the realm of NBA collective bargaining negotiations -- hard cap -- are coming up with greater frequency than I’ve ever heard in my three decades covering #thisleague
I don't understand why a hard cap would affect the players. Don't they get a certain percentage of Basketball Related Income regardless? Everything else is just how the money is distributed among the players, rather than players vs owners - or am I missing something?
Owners know a hard cap is a nonstarter, but they gotta set the initial negotiations super high so that the "middle" they reach with the players is more favorable to them.
Mark, are we counting on you to figure out what’s happening with the Spurs? 1) their objective should be to develop playing time for younger players while losing games! 2) this is supposed to be the premier franchise in scouting and drafting, and with Sumanic & Primo's situations, they have nothing to show for two full years of lottery!!
Drafting well -> developing well -> paying your own players should be treated differently than paying max dollars to other teams’ free agents. The former should be encouraged / incentivized and the latter discouraged, with a salary cap or otherwise. Big market teams have no advantage in the former pursuit.
I’m not sure hard cap is the answer. I think then you risk the other leagues across the globe becoming a bigger factor. Somebody will pay the star players if the NBA teams can’t. Go ask the PGA Tour about that.
Are there other ways? Maybe in addition to just redistributing cash from luxury tax teams to other teams, certain tax amounts are then converted to salary cap exceptions for teams under the cap? That might give a little extra edge to small market teams in free agency.
I find salary cap and CBA talk exhausting, but I am curious what sort of voting threshold do the owners have to cross to have "agreement"? 50%, 66%? 100%?
Fantastic. As they did with their machinations to bring in Durant, the Warriors once again (with Steve Ballmer and Joe Tsai for company this time) have given a virtual middle finger to the other 27 teams that had a complicated agreement on a salary structure. It should never have reached a point where the league is proposing a hard limit, but now it's owner vs owners. If the Warriors win this fight, league parity will be a fantasy.
OK from the guy who is not a hoop head, but I really enjoy the NBA.... When a Team spends a ton more money on payroll than the other teams, like the Warriors are, aren’t they now making less money then the teams with out the salary tax? Of course the Warriors are now worth seven billion dollars, so maybe that is the answer? Or is it just a “want to win” at all costs?
I've always viewed NBA salary negotiations as being billionaire owners arguing that millionaire players make too much money. That said, my political progressive politics also sneak in a little bit. The Warriors are worth 7 billion! Damn, that sure creates an income disparity in the league. Then I laugh at my hypocritical self for siding with the owners who are lesser billionaires than some others.
Surely someone whispered to Lacob that relief is coming for teams that give mega contracts to their own drafted players? And fix the dang NBA App with that moolah!
And what is the reason for a "hard cap?" It's not like anyone is suffering. It's just the governors wanting to keep the money. Money that they didn't earn.
It's not going to happen, but it's a shame the players can't find a way to have ownership equity in the teams.
I don't understand why a hard cap would affect the players. Don't they get a certain percentage of Basketball Related Income regardless? Everything else is just how the money is distributed among the players, rather than players vs owners - or am I missing something?
Owners know a hard cap is a nonstarter, but they gotta set the initial negotiations super high so that the "middle" they reach with the players is more favorable to them.
Mark, are we counting on you to figure out what’s happening with the Spurs? 1) their objective should be to develop playing time for younger players while losing games! 2) this is supposed to be the premier franchise in scouting and drafting, and with Sumanic & Primo's situations, they have nothing to show for two full years of lottery!!
Drafting well -> developing well -> paying your own players should be treated differently than paying max dollars to other teams’ free agents. The former should be encouraged / incentivized and the latter discouraged, with a salary cap or otherwise. Big market teams have no advantage in the former pursuit.
I’m not sure hard cap is the answer. I think then you risk the other leagues across the globe becoming a bigger factor. Somebody will pay the star players if the NBA teams can’t. Go ask the PGA Tour about that.
Are there other ways? Maybe in addition to just redistributing cash from luxury tax teams to other teams, certain tax amounts are then converted to salary cap exceptions for teams under the cap? That might give a little extra edge to small market teams in free agency.
I find salary cap and CBA talk exhausting, but I am curious what sort of voting threshold do the owners have to cross to have "agreement"? 50%, 66%? 100%?
Fantastic. As they did with their machinations to bring in Durant, the Warriors once again (with Steve Ballmer and Joe Tsai for company this time) have given a virtual middle finger to the other 27 teams that had a complicated agreement on a salary structure. It should never have reached a point where the league is proposing a hard limit, but now it's owner vs owners. If the Warriors win this fight, league parity will be a fantasy.
OK from the guy who is not a hoop head, but I really enjoy the NBA.... When a Team spends a ton more money on payroll than the other teams, like the Warriors are, aren’t they now making less money then the teams with out the salary tax? Of course the Warriors are now worth seven billion dollars, so maybe that is the answer? Or is it just a “want to win” at all costs?
I've always viewed NBA salary negotiations as being billionaire owners arguing that millionaire players make too much money. That said, my political progressive politics also sneak in a little bit. The Warriors are worth 7 billion! Damn, that sure creates an income disparity in the league. Then I laugh at my hypocritical self for siding with the owners who are lesser billionaires than some others.
Surely someone whispered to Lacob that relief is coming for teams that give mega contracts to their own drafted players? And fix the dang NBA App with that moolah!
And what is the reason for a "hard cap?" It's not like anyone is suffering. It's just the governors wanting to keep the money. Money that they didn't earn.
It's not going to happen, but it's a shame the players can't find a way to have ownership equity in the teams.