Owners don't want to deal, want to destroy players

[BNB]

In short, in 2011-12, according to the tidbits that we see reported, we end up with something close to having a player cap of $14 million, which isn't terribly lower than their existing max, and $15.6 million for a max "Bird" player. The team cap would be $51.5 million. In 2012-13, the revenue could go up or down, and the scale gets readjusted, then the players could see a MUCH higher cap in the next season, or a lower cap, depending on how the league grows. You no longer play with money based on ideals, but the actual reality of the situation at hand.

Okay, I put a part of my idea on the table... who else has a solid idea, and not just a lot of critiques?

hmm that could work.

I just like the idea of a hard cap... not at 51 million though. I'd rather have it closer to about 60 million so teams have a little more room to sign players in free agency and more room to resign their own players.

Yeah, it would creat parity I guess, but IMO that's fine.

If it wasn't for the Bird rule, the NBA would have a hard cap. The bird rule made it a soft cap because teams can resign their own players to however much they choose. That's what's causing these ridiculous contracts and putting teams in a hole. Yes, teams ahve a choice of giving them that money, but if you're a team like Minny and you're worried about losing a guy in free agency, you almost have to give him a bigger contract than other teams are willing to offer if you want to keep them.

 

[Crystallas]

If the right hard cap on the players goes into effect, then the bird rules greatly lessen the burden. To me, that is the most important bullet point in this while lockout, that the players and owners can lower the max contracts, and lower the guaranteed money to players who essentially would fire themselves from any real world job with their actions, like an Arenas or Eddie Curry.

 

[Diddy1122]

In most labor disputes, blame can usually be levied evenly across both parties. However, in this case, the owners are grossly misrepresenting their profits/losses in an attempt to blame the players for their own financial mismanagement.

A couple key things about this labor dispute: Player salaries are a FIXED cost at 57% of League Gross Revenue. Player salaries have remained even with the inflation rate. Management Operating Costs have gone up 5x's the inflation rate (based on the numbers teams have provided). The issue is not player salaries, it's management spending.

Pushing for a hard cap (which essentially relegates the league to parity), demanding a 33% decrease in player salaries, & eliminating guaranteed contracts will not solve this problem. The players are rightly justified in their stance & though it may mean no season this year, I am fully behind them.

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Taking a look at the numbers behind the NBA labor dispute