Comments on: Report: Owners back off 50/50 split demand. For now.

By: florida727

florida727 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:54:08 +0000

Wow, “skids”. That is actually so right on point it’s not even funny. This’ll sound ‘degrading’, but frankly, I don’t care… how many of these players can actually negotiate a deal for themselves? It’s not that they’re ‘stupid’ per se, I’m just saying, when you get into the 18th bulletpoint of the 8th paragraph of the 4th section on page 12, the players are clueless. That’s why they have agents. ‘Posse’? No. Agents? I think so.

By: skids003

skids003 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:57:37 +0000

The players are just confused anyway. They have to rely on their agents and posse to tell them what to do, business wise.

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:51:01 +0000

“the ability to waive underperforming players but spread out the financial hit against the salary cap,”

I’m curious as to why this particular thing wouldn’t be a major advantage for the players? Nobody is saying they aren’t getting 100% of their money guaranteed in the contract, right? So in this case, the owners are doing the following…

- paying 100% of what they owe the player when they waive him…say $40 million over 4 years.

- instead of not being able to spend that $10 million a year for the next 4 years, they will be able to spend an additional $5 million a year for the next 4 years. Meaning they can spend more upfront money on more scrubs to replace the scrub they just paid off to waive.

- so this means that instead of actual dollars going out of $10 million a year for 4 years, they will be $15 million.

And that is just with one scrub. What if a team has 3 or 4 scrubs. They cut them all, thus spreading out the hit for 50% more years. They can then spend over the cap technically for that excess money they have available on the cap the extra years.

I guess sometimes, the players confuse “cap” with “actual money being spent”?

By: savocabol1

savocabol1 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:36:44 +0000

50/50 is on 50/50 is off, games are cancelled now games aren’t, season will be lost now games will be shuffled around, KG blew up negotiations no Dan Gilbert did…..and on and on it goes.

When are real facts about the lockout going to be released? Everyday there is a story negating the previous days story.