I am so pissed right now. If the owners didn't want the whole player dictating where they go BS, why didn't they just prevent it with a simple solution? Allow teams to resign players at whatever they want as long as they're under the cap? In all these months that the small market owners bickered about competitive imbalance, and they keep the one policy that makes it possible: Max Salary. With the max, every team has equal footing when it comes to signing players, and home team has barely any advantage besides the 5th year. Without it, the home team can simply pay more. You can have it so teams resigning their own drafted players can go over the cap a bit more without paying the luxury tax. Or something to that extent. Surely they could've worked something out. But instead we have the same b***** owners b**** about the same thing that THEY never bothered to correct in the first place.
huh? How could a small market team afford to pay luxury tax? The draft and restricted free agency make it possible to keep a player up to 6-7 years of his career (about 50% of his career on average) before he becomes an unrestricted FA. I think the Max Contract is better for competitive balance. There's only 2-3 for these to go around on a team that chooses to put crap around them (like Miami, NY, LA, Boston, etc.) and only so many of these destinations to go around. And I think Houston would be one in the near future.
