Memo: NBA proposing $45M hard cap

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[quote]Memo: NBA proposing $45M hard cap
By John Lombardo, Staff Writer

Published May 16, 2011, Page 4
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[KenneBell]

It's gonna be a long summer.

[Crown&Coke]

what the f?

45 mil???? Teams are going to be straight raking in the loot if that is the case.


do they seriously expect top tier guys to have max contracts starting at 9 million???

Lebron alone made the Cavs franchise boost to what 350 million after it was hovering less than 100 million just days before he was drafted.

[adri41]

Booooooooooooo.

[DStebb716]

This has to be a joke. $45 mill cap? It would probably be delayed for a few years if they agreed to it (not sure if it says that in story) but come on.

There goes NY, Miami, Atlanta, Los Angeles Lakers, Orlando, Chicago, Dallas... and more.

Honestly, a hard cap at around 65 mill is the only thing close to reasonable. If you're going to put in a HARD cap then you have to RAISE the cap. The salary cap right now is virtually like 80 million with all these exceptions and the ability to fill your roster over the cap. Dropping it to 45 makes zero sense.

[Irish]

This will never happen, if it did all the big Euro teams would start poaching stars by offering way more than what the NBA could offer.

[Rowe]

Stern is playing around.

He knows if they keep a "Hard cap" there will be no NBA season to be played, which means that those teams who are losing money will be screwed big time with no product on the floor at all.

[ProfessorMurder]

Miami Heat would be so f*cked.

Bron+Wade+Bosh = 47,557,000 next season.

[KenneBell]

Miami Heat would be so f*cked.

Bron+Wade+Bosh = 47,557,000 next season.

So would the Lakers, Celtics, and Mavs.

[PowerGlove]

Everyone would be f*cked.

I think only sacramento is under that.

[kaiiu]

Miami Heat would be so f*cked.

Bron+Wade+Bosh = 47,557,000 next season.

[NuggetsFan]

How would that even work? Down the line max contracts\contracts in general just sink lower? Max contracts would be like 7mill opposed to like 16 8 years from now or what?. That'd be sick, but seems ridiculously impossible.

Hard cap would be nice. Giving every team the same advantage regardless of what market there in or how cheap there owner is. Sucks some teams get an advantage because there owner is willing to go deep in the pockets when other teams have owners who go out of there way to cut costs.

[NuggetsFan]

put the NBA below the NHL?

First playoffs I've ever watched in the NHL and it's actually pretty cool. Seeing players CARE that much was pretty awesome. You had dude's getting hit with a puck and there faces getting destoyed but where back on the ice 15 minutes later. Nice change of pace when you see guy's in the NBA miss two weeks because a sore foot.

I'd be all for the NBA taking the NHL rode. F*ck the "stars" in good markets, even watching the NBA finals this year was a joke. ESPN|Everything surrounding the NBA was focused on the story lines of LeBron|Heat like a sitcom rather than the actual great play in the finals.

[MeLO MvP 15]

Any hard cap would have to be like $60 mil along with an amnesty clause and rollbacks (so teams can adjust). But then why would the players agree. It's just the owners doing the classic "start big so the real offer doesn't look as bad."

[Crown&Coke]

How can teams go from 58million (with a soft cap that nobody adheres to) down to 45 million with a hard cap?

This has to be like the opening figures, low ball and then negotiate from the lower price up so the total improvement is only marginal