The nba buyouts are ruining the game, gaming the hard cap

Relative to how much the NBA was making just over a year ago, this much would be getting the players' fair share of producing the entertainment product. Now that owner, player, league office lines are obscure on top of pandemic losses, it's just a big mess.

 

the only thing that's actually true is blake signed with the nets. The rest is fake news and/or a bunch of meaningless rambling

 

Well, we did get JSmoove for one useful playoffs run. But yeah, superteam is the story of NBA. And guaranteed contracts come with a lot of evils. Nothing is going to change.

 

You can't stop players from taking less money to play where they want to play.

 

where are you reading drummond is going to Lakers?

 

So If a man wants to move his family to a situation of his choosing, and he is willing to take less money to do so, he shouldn't be able to?

All based on what he was previously paid?

That's nonsense.

 

Everything I've read says if he is bought out he's going to the Nets. The Nets have like 10 million dollars to offer him too.

 

I think the problem is that during a buyout, you essentially have 2 contracts paying out over the same period. So taking a smaller paycheck isn't really an issue since your old team is basically paying you to play with someone else. I agree that buyouts are lame but the onus isn't on the player or the new team IMO, it's on the old team. They're the ones agreeing on this crap deal that has no benefit for them other than saving some money for the owner. That's pretty lame. Since they're not in the running anyway they'll just screw all the other ones who are.

 

Nets are in the east, it is better for the Rockets, maybe not, we are not winning.

 

Yes it is. Harden gets a ring if Drummond signs with Nets!!

Anyone but Lakers.

 

Why not just do a silent auction, highest bid gets him. Then the amount get reduced from what the Pistons would owe Blake, so the poor(Pistons) don't get poorer and the rich(Nets) don't get richer. I even suspect that Griffin was dogging it just to get out of playing. He got jealous of his boy Parsons' free paychecks.

 

Taking away maximum salaries restrictions while adding a hard cap fixes the problem.

 

If a guy is so bad that a team would rather pay him NOT to play for them, I don't think it is such a crisis for NBA competition when that guy goes to play as a backup for another team.

 

u r just looking at how it helps the big market. Small market team gets relieve of the sht contract they were stuck with in the first place.

both side wins.

 

Death knell* is the term, but yeah it’s a concerning issue. Blake wasn’t a malcontent as far as I could tell; I mainly have an issue with players pouting or refusing to play with time remaining on their contract and forcing teams to trade them to contenders for pennies on the dollar. But here Blake is just washed and there’s no guarantee he’ll do well with the Nets