Comments on: Just a reminder: Next year the Lakers will be insanely rich

By: bruthamanfrmda5thflo

bruthamanfrmda5thflo — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:51:42 +0000

By the way I’m a Laker Die-Hard! They Gotta share the wealth!

By: bruthamanfrmda5thflo

bruthamanfrmda5thflo — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:50:48 +0000

They need to pay their fair share. . . . . Just like the 1%er’s lol!
It’s only fair to help keep small market teams in the game!

By: douchiedude

douchiedude — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:07:49 +0000

I want you to look up what the Lakers gave up for Pau Gasol and tell me whether the management is good or not.

By: mhawkins258

mhawkins258 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:54:20 +0000

Since everyone called you out on your asinine comment, you’re “riling up” the west coasters now. Typical piece of sh*t hater that can’t admit when they f’d up and then tries to flip the script. People like you have a BS answer for everything.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:33:39 +0000

I love riling up you west coasters.

By: loungefly74

loungefly74 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:25:42 +0000

but you are forgetting , the Lakers are a team that can “load up on new weapons” with a blink of an eye. yeah, there is the cap and stuff but the Lakers always find ways to make room for superstars.

and lets not be too harsh on them…they went to the finals 3 of the last 4 years. obviously, they are doing something right.

By: deadeyedesign23

deadeyedesign23 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:02:47 +0000

Oh sure the NFL model where Lions fans have been waiting 60 years for a championship. I’m sure if it were the NBA you’d find a reason to complain about that too.

Also the NFL is not the NBA. The NFL is a national game, it’s once a week, you can follow all the teams at once. That’s how you can have a lucrative franchise in Green Bay, Wisconsin. If the Lakers or Celtics or Bulls were in Green Bay there would be no NBA.

By: hellinisamoron

hellinisamoron — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:54:38 +0000

N F L model was clearly the way to go. NBA needed to stop these teams from playing fantasy basketball. Even Dan Snyder could build a winner in the NBA.

By: mytthor

mytthor — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:06:41 +0000

“A hard cap would have guaranteed that the teams with the best management win.”

That already happens. Plenty of big market teams fail based on bad management.

Competitive balance isn’t mythical because the NBA hasn’t done enough to get there. It’s mythical because there aren’t 30 players who can lead a team to a title. There aren’t even 10. What a hard cap or cap changes in general will allow is for the 5 teams with a shot to win a title to change more, but it’s still going to be 5 teams with good management, every year. If you’re down, and you have good management, it will be easier to get back up.

By: deadeyedesign23

deadeyedesign23 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:59:18 +0000

Ugh dude get off that cross your on, use the wood to build a bridge and get over it. Seriously.

Small market teams will always have a disadvantage because they should. I hate to be the one to tell you, but the Lakers being great is good for the league, and David Stern knows it. If the Timberwolves were making the finals every year against Charlotte, he would throw himself off the top of Madison Square Garden.

Oh please, please basketball Gods, please smite all these terribly run teams in markets that can’t support and don’t deserve professional franchises. If you this I’ll walk into Montreal with a sign that says f*** hockey.

By: snoopy2014

snoopy2014 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:12:47 +0000

How much do the Clippers get for their TV deal? If they make (for e.g.) $25 million a year off a TV contract, that’s exactly how much the Lakers should have to give via revenue sharing, and not a penny more – because that’s exactly the amount of their revenue that’s due to the city and market size.

The rest of the Lakers profitability comes from Jerry Buss running one of the best franchises in sports for decades, and he deserves to keep it. Fair’s fair. Don’t punish the man for success.

By: hellinisamoron

hellinisamoron — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:56:25 +0000

Of course competitive balance is “mythical”. There is nothing in the new CBA that helps address it. Your point is impossible to prove. Which is likely why you keep harping on it. A hard cap would have gauranteed that the teams with the best management win. However you were not interested in that because you were too busy getting cozy with the players.

By the way, are the Lakers an example of one of your teams with great management? or do they just out spend everyone?

By: goforthanddie

goforthanddie — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:58:07 +0000

FYI: It helps to have a clue what you’re talking about.

By: aqzi

aqzi — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:51:29 +0000

Did you read the article?

You even recognize in your comment that the Lakers have a championship window right now. That’s more than, what, 24 other teams can say?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:05:07 +0000

“It’s good to have the Lakers problems”

What? An aging team with a bunch of bad contracts who has a championship window that gets extremely smaller by the second? Sounds like an awesome problem.