That's all well and good but the supermax needs to come with rules: like the player has to be YOUR player you acquired in a draft. Plus, all this qould create are a have vs have not senario. I'm sure Miami could pay Lebron 300 million over 5 years, but I doudt the twolves could. My whole thing is that if you trade a superstar and you are willing to pay him everything that the league allows, he should never be able to leave your team. But that's still a flawed system because many many teams never get the chance to draft a superstar like Lebron or Tim Duncan.
No way the owners would agree to that. For one it would favor the richer teams. But it would also result in players being grossly overpaid. The Lebrons of the world are always gonna be underpaid, but there are only a few at that level. It would just mean 10-20 second tier star end up making a ton more money. And it would almost assuredly mean the players would end up making a higher share of the revenue than they currently do.
I think the super max contract has more merit but like the Rose rule, it should have qualifiers on it so freaking Mike Conley doesn't get it
I don't think NBA players would ever agree to a franchise tag. NFL players are a bunch of morons. When Andrew luck is making less than Harrison Barnes you know your union is garbage.
Both of Riley's suggestions suck, but the one about trading a pick is incredibly stupid. He's just throwing that out there because he likes to trade picks for players who can contribute ASAP; he wants the best of both worlds.
This wouldn't really work because if you look at OKC, they drafted KD, Westbrook and Harden. These are all franchise guys, so if one gets the supermax this now means the other two cannot because the team that drafted them already has there SM guy. But another thing is, now we are discussing a resolution to a problem that so far has never happened before with the huge increase in revenue based on the TV money the league received. The league wanted to do a cap smoothing increase where it didn't happen all at once like this year. I somehow do not thing this will not be worked into the new CBA going forward to avoid this major jump from happening again.
Franchise tag is the only thing that will work. Shoe deals are killing the NBA because when you can make 300 million from that, you're free to focus on getting cheap rings without regard to salary.
Get rid of max contracts. Lebron would get 60 million and everyone that wants to play with him will have to take a big pay cut.
Why don't we just go back to the time players had no power and owners controlled everything...... Or we can ask our teams to draft better players, manage the cap better, build stable organizations/culture and put themselves in a position to be able to sign superstars. Rockets didn't get a meeting with Durant not because the system is unfair, we didn't because we suck, at least compared to the Warriors. Did you see The Cavs having the cap space to sign Durant? They didn't manage their cap as well as the Warriors. Too bad. Lost in all this is the Warriors drafting 3 top 20 players, Steph (7th), Klay (11th), and Draymond (33) without a top 5 pick THEN signing all of them to long-term below max deals right before the cap was set to explode. There's nothing wrong with the system, the Warriors just played it better than anyone else. Do you see the Warriors extending Steph 2 years early even though he clearly deserves a raise?
If Nike says .. . you can have a 300 Mill Shoe deal .. . if you go to L.A. or .. . . 200 Million to stay where you are . . .. . how many players turn that down . . .. . They know KD with a RING in Cali sells more shoes than KD in Okla nearing a Ring. Rocket River
A max contract should be no more than $15 mill and the cap should decrease significantly. Each team should be only allowed one max contract and the total cap for each team should be $60 mill. But icecreamman what about the tv deal it isn't fair for the players. Yes this is where incentives come in. Each stat in the nba will have bonus money to be won. So if you lead the league in assists you get an extra 10 mill but you will also be paid on per stat scored. Also for winning games.
Yeah I like the league reduction idea... Not enough talent. Lol, you know no owner will go for that though. It's basically free money regardless because of tv deal/revenue sharing. ****ty teams make bank too.
