The nba is still light ahead of the world in terms of talent and players. I will say that when Stern came on sirius nba channell, western euro hoop team is coming soon. When i say soon, i think in the next 5 years. he clearly stated thatlogistics isnt a reason not to toss the ball up. He said they could work the rest of the stuff out.
Chillin' on the Mediterreanian coast, beautiful landscape, fantastic food, and the girls... oh the girls... Heck I don't even get why Euros want to come to the NBA anymore. Injures, a much tougher schedule, and a 50% chance that somebody in your locker room's on crack. Go figure.
I read the first 2-3 pages of this thread then fast forwarded to the end. Please put more pics up of hot Russian Babes cause the discussion between Fisher and Nine-Gates on Euro-Ball is giving me a headache.
The Eurogirls are hot hot hot!! Man you are right..why anyone would go for the big fat ones here is beyond me. What they need to have is a big FIBA Euroball club in Sweden and Norway. lol For some reason there are very few fat girls over there.
I live in Eu, so I I might buy a beach house in Mia, soon. Just kidding. I am saying that this rate has been here for a while and will stay some further.
What he said...especially now when the dollar is weak plus no taxes...Sign me up!!! Although, I'd double check to make the sure the checks don't bounce...
last time i checked, your irs can't do nothing about yao, dirk, nash and many others if they go live and work in europe...
I really think a lot of U.S. write this off way to quickly. probably because the US sports scene is very different to that of the European scene. How much teams make, or are worth, doesn't mean a thing in European sports. Its all about what the rich men who own the teams are willing to pay. Some sporting teams over there are owned by guys who know NOTHING about that sport, but they use the teams as promotional tools or they use them to stroke their own ego. Over here in Australia we have the NRL, which is the worlds best Rugby League competition. It draws more fans, more sponsorship, more TV money and more general media attention than any other "Rugby" competition in the world. We have more players, more junior players....all across the board the NRL has the numbers. Thing is, these days, the big money is on offer over in Europe. The reason being that a club can been terribly run over there, get crowds of just 2,000, get no TV time at all, and yet the rich people running these clubs have no problem doubling an NRL players salary in a heart beat. Most players stay in the NRL for the challenge of playing in the worlds best competition. But at some point, you HAVE to take the money. The same thing is now creeping into the NBA. It starts off with players turning down the change to play in the NBA to stay in their Euro club. Something unheard of in the past. Then lower grade NBA players head over to Europe. One day, these rich people funding these European teams get together and decide, you know what, we have the money to make it happen, lets go all out and get an NBA All Star. One team does it, then other follow. I know it seems far fetched right now, but its something Ive seen happen in a few sports and its happening to the NBA. The only way the NBA can combat this is probably to get some of the big Euro teams into the NBA down the track. Make NO mistake, money talks. The NBA can only rely on being the top competition up until a certain point.
All this is wonderful, but I repeat, you're exaggerating. Simply. Actual europe don't have that power. Its only that the dollar is on bad days, but will come back some day, in 2-2,5 years.
How hard it is to get that "no tax" means that the team pays the salary+whatever you´ll have to pay in taxes. IRS gets it´s money and the player gets his reported salary "tax-free".
These rich European owners deal in US dollars and have more of a personal drive to have trophy players than US owners. Saying its all a fantasy is the worst possible thing the NBA could do, because once these Euro teams target top players, it quickly becomes a flood to top players leaving. The NBA isnt special.....its just a basketball competition. If the big money is on offer outside of the NBA, the best players will follow it.
the team only pays russian tax for him. i don't think they're going to pay his argentine tax as well. that'd be crazy. in the case of us players going to europe, us players have to pay us irs tax on their after europe tax net salary.
The Euro owners will pay that tax if needed. If they have paid all that money to get a player over, paying there tax will be part of their deal. One thing European sports teams like to do to get around salary caps is sign a player to a big deal, but then sign their wives or girlfriends to be the most expensive secretary on the planent as well. They are a bunch of sneaky b*stards!
Boki & Delfino might be wishing they had stayed in the NBA right now. http://www.ballineurope.com/womens-basketball/crisis-reaches-russia-delfino-refuses-to-play/
