What is the point of the salary cap when the Heat turn into the Yankee's?? I had a discussion at work today in light of the Haslem signing, and the news with the yankees and it got me thinking, what is the point of the salary cap? Obviously the point is to keep the league fair by allowing teams a certain dollar amount to assemble their roster. With the underlying reasoning being that you can only assemble x number of great players, y number of good players, z number of filler players, etc. But when players agree to contracts that under pay for their value, to me it completely throws off the entire reason for the cap. In reference to that of the Heat, they added 3 superstars. Now i personally dont have a problem with this as long as they all take the max contract which is fair except maybe in bosh's case. Bosh is still worth very close to max if not max contract. So if they have these 3 players on all max deals, they would have no choice but to fill the roster with rookie contracts, and veteran minimum contracts. To me that is fair, no problems here. But when they start to take less than they are worth, they can sign other good players; haslem, fisher, and big z to under valued contracts. And make a very superior team. Given the small amount of superstars in the league, and lets assume that all of them are great friends with eachother like Lebron/Wade/Bosh. So there were lets say 2 or 3 more teams that resembled a big 3 who all took pay cuts to sign good role players. The league would then be dominated for a number of years by 4 teams. And who wants to watch that? The cap is here to make sure teams only have so many superstars, or have to take the risk of having more superstars to less role players, or vice versa. Should there be some sort of rule enforced on taking a contract that represents your ability, like how baseball has arbitration to evaluate how much money a player is worth. Like should all superstars have to take a max offer. Perennial All-star caliber players need 10-14 mil, occasional all-star calliber 5-10 mil. Im just throwing out whats on my mind, what do you guys think??
The luxury tax was put in place to make teams think hard about overspending, but teams should be allowed to by all means if they choose to do so ... especially if they can get three max players for it. The cap in the NBA seems to be more of a point of reference than anything. Almost nobody plays the season actually under the cap ... it is just a figure to set the rules for free agency and trades. BTW, since Miami can go over the cap to re-sign Wade, they really only count Bosh and Lebron's salary against the cap. They essentially got those two with Miller and Haslem in free agency, and are re-signing Wade.
I don't see how you can have any rules that can prevent players from taking less money to play for a team they choose.
When was the last time 3 superstars of this caliber all went to one team and become like the Yankees? The cap does a good job. This doesn't happen all the time.
Keep the cap but make every player to be RFA forever until his right is traded or dropped. If LeBron wants to go to heat at MLE, Gilbert can match that. If Clippers want our Cook, they might have to give us a 2nd rounder for Morey not matching their offer.
Actually you can. Rank folx like they do for the Draft Free agent lottery Rank the teams 1 - 31 Then like the the true Lottery Suckie teams can offer the most. Once they get signing. . they move to the bottom of the list <just talking . . . would need more thought into it > but it can be done Rocket River
