The BRI is the players vs the owners, let them kill each other. The system is the players and about 5 teams vs the owners, fans of everyone but that 5. As for MJ, if he was actually paid the value of the externality value he has brought players in the nba, he'd receive 10% of every player's contract and 10% of the value of every team in the league, and he'd still be underpaid. He'd be quite right if he felt that they all have just mooched off his reputation for the last 10 years, because it's pretty much what they have done.
The owners took advantage of the '80s revival in popularity, too, by adding 7 franchises since 1987. Over-expansion (dilution of product) has contributed to destroying the league more than the players have....vastly more.
He gave Wallace away (although to be fair, he did get a lot of draft picks and stuff for him), because as long as he had Gerald, he was bound to finish 8th or 9th perpetually, never go up, never go down, sounds awfully like some other owner who shall remain nameless and (probably stupid).
Les Alexander also bought the Rockets for 85 Million in 1993. or about 25x a star players value. Current Charlotte team is valued to be 285 Million by Forbes, or about 25x a max player's value. http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...Bobcats_322435.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
You can't use Jordan's 4m value as an example, he was massively underpaid, hence why he shot all the way up to 30, he should have been getting about 10-15 at the time Les bought rockets, it's comparable to what "similar" stars were receiving. On superfriends and MJ, yeah let;s look at his team He was the greatest player of all time, he had Pippen, who for much of his career was arguably the best perimeter defender of all time, and a decent offensive player, he had Rodman whose statistically the greatest rebounder of all time, and Kerr whow as statistically the greatest three point shooter of all time, not to mention Kukoc, the league's best 6th man at the time, there's a reason they won 72 games that year.
No it isn't. You are mistaken. David Robinson was the highest paid player at $5.75 in '93-94. MJ was tied for 4th at $4m. The year before, MJ was 2nd highest to Robinson. Highest paid is usually just a matter of who signed last. No one made over $10m until MJ came back. Then he was paid twice as much as any other player -- $30m vs $14m for 2nd highest paid.
Jordan is kind of like the Ty Cobb of basketball. He's so competitive and must be first in everything he does even when it isn't about being first like this lockout. In the end that's what gave him the drive to become who he was as a basketball player, and also what makes him a dick.
What a positive message to young black people. The only way to be super rich, is to be good at basketball. Did Jordan really not realize why Bob Johnson was so desperate to get rid of the Bobcats?
No, the % of basketball related income determines the salary cap, which salaries fall under. It's the pie itself, not some whipped cream on top.
not shocking though, someone who posts online 12 times a day for over 3 years obviously doesn't have much going on in the real world. You go right ahead and be the online cool guy there sweetheart.
i'm sure they are bound by contract to Jordan brand. On top of that, it's Jordan's image on the shoes regardless.
Big deal. Jordan would probably welcome it, return to the NBA, and dismantle all of them on the court. He just needs the motivation.
and people will still buy Jordans over any of those other players shoes. he's built up a brand loyalty. seriously. nobody elses shoes have come close to Jordans in terms of sales. his image is on the shoe, think about that.
Off topic, but it's ironic that I have never once in my life owned Jordan shoes, and he's my top 2 favorite player after Hakeem. I have however owned a pair of MerGady's and LerBons... both of whom I despise. The latter's shoes were also probably the best and most comfortable pair I have ever worn in my life.
