My Common Sense Compromise to End the Lockout Today

In the old CBA, if the total salary of all players exceeded 57% of BRI, then each player will not recieve their full salary. A percentage of each players' paycheck is put into an escrow account and if total salaries are less than 57% then each player would get their money from the escrow fund (plus a check from the owners to the NBAPA that would get salaries to exactly 57%) and if total salaries are more than 57% then the owners get the money back from the escrow account.

 

It's already like this. If total salaries are more than 57% then each player will earn less than their contract number shows. If total salaries are less than 57% then each player will make more than their contract number shows.

All of the players combined were guarunteed to recieve EXACTLY 57% of BRI in the last CBA. Revenue dropping would mean the owners WOULD get to recoup that money.

 

Correct which is why the BRI is such a gigantic sticking point.

BRI directly correlates with player salary.

So when Players like Eddie Curry are getting paid for doing nothing they are taking money away from the player side not the owner side.

Also having a lower BRI % on the players side makes the players feel the mistake that Dumb GMs make even more.

 

Do players also get a share of the appreciation when a sale of a team goes through? I.e. if a team was bought for 300 Million and sold for 400 Million, 57 Million goes to the players. What about arena rights? Are those going to be part of the valuations too? Lastly, can the players dictate the number of personnel that get's hired and paid? I.e. Jim Buss till he official becomes a owner can not spend a dime of Lakers money or draw contracts from it unless the players says it's ok. That way, an owner can't abuse the system by paying his sons an 100 million dollar salary, claim a loss and screw the players out of pay checks.

 

Players get a portion of revenue, not profits. What the Lakers pay their personnel doesn't affect the players' cut at all.

 

Give it your all.

 

Sounds like a good plan to me. If they agree to it, then what's the problem? Communism can work when it's applied voluntarily. :grin:

 

Stern...Stalin - coincidence or reincarnation? Makes sense, since all he's doing is stallin'.

 

What are the league's main sources of BRI? The national TV deals with Disney & TNT. That money is split evenly I believe. But each individual team also has local tv deals and gate receipts which is kept by each individual team. The main problem is that the big markets have such massive revenues in the last 2 "local" areas in comparison the the other smaller market teams. But the Lakers need a Twolves to come into their building and lose to conduct business. Without them the Lakers huge profits would be impossible.

In theory the gate receipts & local tv deals should be split somewhat. A 50/50 split doesn't make sense. The Lakers of the world should be awarded for marketing their team, negotiating their deals, etc; but they can't play a game without other teams to play. All the NBA teams should keep like 65% of their "local" moneys. The remaining 35% should be thrown in a pot. After all 30 NBA teams surrender their 35% that pot should be divided equally amongst the 30 teams. That way the big market teams are rewarding their opponents without whom they have no game to sell to their fans. Well run teams would still benefit from their ingenuity and business acumen, but would be returning some $ into the NBA in general to keep smaller markets viable.

Would love to hear if I am misreading how BRI is split/generated.