Comments on: After two days of talks owners, players nowhere near deal

By: hungrybear22

hungrybear22 — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:04:08 +0000

I definitely feel that there should be more non-guaranteed contracts happening, since how many times does a guy outperform expectations during a contract year only to play like crap and show up out of shape the next season. However, owners and crappy gms shouldn’t be let off the hook for poor talent evaluation and the like. I think a 3 year maximum guaranteed with maybe 2 more years non-guaranteed sounds about right. This would help owners with spending even if they keep the soft cap.

By: rajbais

rajbais — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:55:50 +0000

NBA owners can succeed with a hard cap plus contractual incentives, but the contracts need to be short as often as possible.

How can shortness of contracts be reached?

If the union and owners agree to ban the maximum of three 1-year contracts. There should be no maximum on one year deals because too many players not held accountable and deserve to be year-to-year cases. The ban should happen because fans don’t care about players’ salaries unless they’ve noticed that they’re not worthy of what they will earn.

This will help bring more fans to games because players will play with a better sense of urgency and will be more relatable to fans as their jobs and salaries will be more on the line.

Many people get angry when they see too many people earn money that they don’t deserve!!! With my proposal, the way of relating to the typical fans can finally exist in the NBA!!!

By: rajbais

rajbais — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:51:32 +0000

The hard cap works in the NFL because base salaries (a.k.a. regular season salaries) are what total up the actual cap and the system can allow payrolls to exceed it with incentives and bonuses attached to the base salaries.

Payrolls like the Washington Redskins and the 2010 Minnesota Vikings can exceed the NFL salary cap because their owners gave players new signing bonuses and incentives based on clauses.

By: rajbais

rajbais — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:40:54 +0000

Chris Mannix of SI told Dan Patrick on April 1, 2011 that the lockout will likely last 1 year.

Majority of the players have proven the inability to live up to 5-6 year contracts, but if the owners and general managers did better scouting and financial work they wouldn’t be in this situation!!!! It’s okay to only give 2 or 3 year deals!!!

I support the case for the owners wanting 3-4 year max contracts and a minimal entry age 20, but I support the players for everything else.

By: trbowman

trbowman — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:05:27 +0000

At best a 55 game season. At absolute best.

85-90% chance the whole season will be cancelled.

I’m not even going to be following the NBA labor dispute

By: sknut

sknut — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:35:17 +0000

I think its more of big market vs. small market owners in this one. I think the small market owners are tired of being pushed around by Stern. Its going to be a long lockout, better get a hobby.

By: nfl25

nfl25 — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:05:52 +0000

99% there will be games missed. owners are ready for war and players arent going to give back much. its gonna be so much worse than the nfl. this sux