Seriously Players are dumb. Majority of the league won't be FA's that summer the cap increases and those players that are and their agents will make out well. The artifical increase and distributing it across all of the players really seemed like a good move for the average joe player in my eyes if I am not a FA and not a top 50 player.
Oh yes, please owners, keep some of this money so you aren't forced to spend so much on us. Surely any employee out there would wait to be paid more money so their boss doesn't have to give out too much of the profits.
Whether the players get paid better. The owners make/lose more money. One thing is clear... we're still going to have a lockout when the new CBA is up.
They know we're (fans) aren't going anywhere, so why even begin negotiations before the lockout stage? That's the new way of pro sports. We're the rubes who let it happen. Hell, look at the fans in Philly, they're embracing Hinkle's stalling technique while they're waiting for the lucky bounce of a ping pong ball. We're disposable... wallets.
Oh yes, please owners, keep some of this money so you aren't forced to spend so much on us. Surely any employee out there would wait to be paid more money so their boss doesn't have to give out too much of the profits.
Can you read?
The NBA suggested that the difference be given to the union in a lump sum and divided evenly among all players. So instead of a few free agents in 2016 benefiting, all players would get a smaller piece of the TV rights deal increase.
To me that says if I am Robbie Hummel or on a rookie contract i will get paid almost 2M a year.
Pek was a restricted free agent. We could have matched anything offered to him and I don't think anyone here would have been upset at losing him if he would have been offered even more than what he got here from someone else. I seriously doubt his agent told Flip that he could get more money elsewhere, but would settle for 12 million in MN because he would have signed that other deal and made Flip match. The two risks were that he gets a bigger offer from somewhere else which would have been good riddance for me because he didn't even deserve the 12 million or he could threaten to sign the QO which would have screwed him because he had another injury riddled year in what would have been his QO year playing only 2/3rds of the year and dragging his career average to 70% of games played per season. He would have never got a 5 year deal after yet another injury riddled season. We had all the leverage and still made a bad deal. Do you think Flip would have given him a 5 year deal at 12 million a year after only playing in 54 games during a season we had to make the playoffs or Love was as good as gone and didn't? Hopefully the new cap makes him easier to deal to a contender that needs a bench big come playoff time.
As Bleed suggests, I don't think the owners' proposal would reduce the players' overall 51% of basketball revenues. The players would continue to get 51% of the bigger post-TV deal pie. It looks like the owners' proposal would simply limit the extent to which the players' share of the bigger pie would go to a small group of stars who are max players and who happen to become free agents when the new deal kicks in. It looks like an attempt by the League to preserve more of the revenue increase for the non-max players. A worthy goal, but I'm not surprised the u ion rejected it.
