Kblaze8855
07-01-2016, 12:11 PM
Today that wouldnt get you Beal, Batum, and Whiteside. You could pay 345 million to those three on one team and miss the playoffs....easily. Just kinda makes me think....
Relative to the contracts they must pay out NBA teams arent even that expensive. The values jumped a lot with the new TV deal and the clippers sale....but really....you could have bought an entire franchise for the cost of 3 pretty good players to play for it. Granted buying it is money out of pocket(or often assumed debt)....and paying a contract is part of a greater business that pays for itself....but you get what im saying.
All these huge numbers coming out...it kinda makes it feel like owning an NBA teams isnt even that huge an investment. Not by the standards of the people who do it. And it never really was. Teams were paying single contracts worth what they bought the team for in the 90s. But now with the dollar amounts shooting up? It just stands out more to me.
No doubt we will start hearing owners claiming poverty and acting like things have to change shortly. And like every time....a huge portion of the sports world will take their side even when they see fit to pay 120 million for 15/6/6 on 43% shooting or 65 million to guys who play 17 minutes a game on a good team and only played 21 minutes when they were on a lottery team. They will come out and complain that they allowed their GMs to do it and the system cant stay this way all the while trying to play down the new TV money and the fact that some of these teams are worth 50 times what they paid for them. A couple are worth 100 times what they were bought for and are still owned by the same people.
What do you think will be the new demands by the more aggressive owners?
Lowering the luxury cap relative to the salary cap to keep spending down and punish owners willing to go over it? We all hears about how the repeater tax and other new rules wouldnt allow so much free spending....and then the new TV money blows all that away.
Gonna have another failed push at a hard cap?
Owners gonna come out and say that with the cap so much higher players will have to accept a smaller share going forward since that will still be more bottom line money than they make now?
We are gonna lose games over this nonsense arent we?
Relative to the contracts they must pay out NBA teams arent even that expensive. The values jumped a lot with the new TV deal and the clippers sale....but really....you could have bought an entire franchise for the cost of 3 pretty good players to play for it. Granted buying it is money out of pocket(or often assumed debt)....and paying a contract is part of a greater business that pays for itself....but you get what im saying.
All these huge numbers coming out...it kinda makes it feel like owning an NBA teams isnt even that huge an investment. Not by the standards of the people who do it. And it never really was. Teams were paying single contracts worth what they bought the team for in the 90s. But now with the dollar amounts shooting up? It just stands out more to me.
No doubt we will start hearing owners claiming poverty and acting like things have to change shortly. And like every time....a huge portion of the sports world will take their side even when they see fit to pay 120 million for 15/6/6 on 43% shooting or 65 million to guys who play 17 minutes a game on a good team and only played 21 minutes when they were on a lottery team. They will come out and complain that they allowed their GMs to do it and the system cant stay this way all the while trying to play down the new TV money and the fact that some of these teams are worth 50 times what they paid for them. A couple are worth 100 times what they were bought for and are still owned by the same people.
What do you think will be the new demands by the more aggressive owners?
Lowering the luxury cap relative to the salary cap to keep spending down and punish owners willing to go over it? We all hears about how the repeater tax and other new rules wouldnt allow so much free spending....and then the new TV money blows all that away.
Gonna have another failed push at a hard cap?
Owners gonna come out and say that with the cap so much higher players will have to accept a smaller share going forward since that will still be more bottom line money than they make now?
We are gonna lose games over this nonsense arent we?