What happened with the Thunders showed why Houston changed the TV provider. OKL receive with their TV provider just 25 mill/ year (Lakers made at least 500 mill). This was one of the reasons they cant pay the max for James Harden. http://www.nba.com/2012/news/10/28/thunder-harden-small-market-reality.ap/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpts
This is pathetic. Please lord in Heaven make a deal get done with U Verse please!!!!!! I HAVE TO WATCH THIS TEAM!!!!!!!
Nice Job CSN. Ten minutes on Harden, and then go to the Cowboys. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I really thought DirecTv would get this channel before the season, I hope this doesn't last much longer. Sucks that we get Harden and Lin, now we can't watch
Isn't this new station CSN Houston? I would understand if it were "Southwest" or something but it's not.
I just need to figure out how to find a very good proxy, so I can trick league pass. That's gonna be my way around it
yeaaaah you don't really understand how the CBA works do ya? They could not offer the max to Harden because it would put their cap number deep into Lux Tax land. Their cap and tax numbers do not hinge on outside things like tv contracts. They could have gotten ten times that number you quoted and it still wouldnt increase the amount they are allowed to pay.
What he's saying is, that big markets usually get very big tv contracts, which allows them to spend as much money as they want. If the Thunder had a 300 million dollar tv contract, signing Harden to a 60 mil extension wouldn't be a problem.
They could have offered him the max. They would have just been paying a lot in luxury tax. Look at the lakers there are in super luxury tax land, but they can afford it due to the TV contracts.
The new CBA is going to heavily penalize teams in deep luxury tax. Not financially (well yes financially but not JUST) but by limiting player movement and the flexibility a team has. Teams that are over the cap are going to get progressively more constrained in what moves they are allowed to make. It makes trades harder for them and can even make them impossible at some levels of over the cap spending. The Lakers are doing it not because they can afford it (well they can afford it) but because their window is small. It's not like they put Nash on a 5 year deal and Kobe isn't on one either. Nor is Gasol. They are going to be limited in what they can do for a few years but they think they can win a title here. The Thunder wanted to maintain the ability to move pieces around and replace pieces that come due for contracts. Signing Harden for more money than what they offered was going to make that harder and harder for them. It's not because they are poor, it's because they would have lost their flexibility.
I had an extra PC so I hooked it up to my 55 plasma,looks great.If Dish doesn't add the channel I might just get rid of it completely.I can find nearly everything I watch streaming online or through locals I get on the antenna. Question about league pass : I read on another forum that the international package is cheaper and has no blackouts ? This might be the way to go.Just need to find a way to get a European ip. I know lot's of people pay services to mask their ip for downloading torrents,might be the way to do it ?
