Replacement players? Come on! I want to play for Charlotte!!! LOL
Running an NBA team is freaking expensive. Of the $3.8 billion generated by the league, about $2.2 billion goes the players. The remaining $1.6 billion, split by 30, makes for about $53 million per team, on average.
That’s $53 million to pay over 100 team employees, from security to marketing to scouts to trainers to the top decision-makers like GMs. In addition to that, that money is used maintenance on an arena, the team’s private jet, paying for five-star hotels for the players every night, their per diem, upkeep of practice facilities, etc.
There’s really nothing left from that money to even be paying themselves with. And beyond that, it doesn’t make any sense, dude; if an owner pays himself $2 million a year, and the team loses $2 million that year, then he has to pay that $2 million back.
There is no change whatsoever from whatever salary they decide to give themselves, since that money is coming from THEIR own pocket!
Oh I’m not saying the situation is perfect or perfectly rosey.
I’m a HUGE fan of contracts built upon incentives - and punishments. A player should be allowed to play where they want to play, thats the idea of FREE AGENCY. However - while under contract - no matter how things are ‘now’ it is your job to perform at the level you are supposed to play at, othrewise I should be allowed to fire you - period. VC should have been essentially ‘fired’ from his position form the team - with no option for signing anywhere for a year or until his contract was up. Its not fair to the team, the owner, or the fans - for a player to hold a team ‘hostage’. I don’t have a real issue with Melo because he still played his game during it all. VC WAS a problem though.
If ‘I’ had the power, performance metrics would dictate contract value. They would of course be tailored to the individual - similar to how Deniis Rodman had technicals built into his contract to help enforce better behaviour. Being hurt in itself would lower value - similar to collecting disability at work is only 1/2 pay I think it is. Unfortunatly that would never fly as it would be too easy to make it unfair to the players from a ‘guarunteed contract’ stand point, but I’m sorry…
VC shoul have been fired
Grant Hill shouldn’t have collected all tha money on his Orl contract
McGrady shouldn’t have gotten all his money
Boston shouldn’t have had to pay Shaq for the whole season (he played what 30 games that year?)
But I’m not in a position to negotiate those kind of items.
all i know is that the players and the owners suck donkey balls
PBalla
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finished the 2 hour simmons podcast. darn those agents were right!
Another great article by Marc Spears from Yahoo;
Another terrific opening quote, too;
So the average player went from making $5.5 million a year, living in a big city, traveling in private luxury jets, staying in five-star hotels, personal trainers, state-of-the-art practice facilities, half-assing a bunch of games, and barely playing defense
to
$100,000 a year, living in a foreign city they don’t like, traveling in commercial jets and team buses, average hotels where they share rooms with teammates, no trainers, high school gym practice facilities, having to play much harder in a new style, with a greater emphasis on defense…IF THEY’RE LUCKY.
Way to fucking go on this lockout, players! Clearly, the playing conditions in Europe and Asia are so much better than what you were getting in the NBA, right?
Taito
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Latest report of players turning into fatties, Won’t be the last. https://twitter.com/#!/DraftExpress/status/137701486175059968
“if your team isn’t making any money then you should sale your team.” - Micheal Jordan
Amusingly enough though, Jordan doesn’t follow his own advice.
The Bobcats are losing money hand over fist, and rather than selling them, Jordan is the hardest-line of all the owners.
Anyways, here’s a great example to illustrate what the players are doing;
Let’s say you were making $80k a year with full medical benefits at your job. And your employed who was losing money, asked you to accept $70k with the same full medical benefits instead.
You adamantly refuse this offer…and instead go to COMPETE for the OPPORTUNITY of a job that pays you $1.5k a year with zero medical benefits.
You would call that person fucking insane, retarded, and delusional, right?
Well, what do you think the players are doing? Instead of going down from $5.5 million a year to $5 million a year with the same private luxury jets, five star hotels, personal trainers, etc. they’re going to be competing for one of the few jobs in Europe that pays $0.1 million (or $100k) with none of those same amenities.
PBalla
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i wonder why this wasnt reported at the philly scrim…
GeoG2
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I recall when Vlade retired, I said he’d be going to the HoF because of his influence on European players coming into the NBA. You all laughed at the idea.
Lo and behold, he’s a HoF 2012 nominee. You tools lose and Geo gets a +1 yet again. Nothing new.
Fuck the lockout, btw.
Taito
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The HoF is filled with borderlines who in recent years would have no chance at getting inducted. Good luck to Divac anyway for the many championships he gave the Lakers.
lol eating like a top-notch athlete and not working out like one…
No surprise here… they’re eating a fuckton of calories and not burning enough off…
Hold up wait?
Vlade Divac… wtf…
TarkanX
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Vlade is one of my favorite players, but he is not a hall of famer, not even hall of very good. I understand it is due to his influence of European players into the NBA, but that should be in a separate category.
jae_hoon
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The Harlem Globetrotters and Christian Laettner are in the Baskeball HOF to, it is the Basketball HOF not the NBA HOF. Basketball has by far the easiest one to get into if you had some relevance somehow.
If Vlade was born in the US, he wouldn’t have a prayer of being in the Hall of Fame. But the standard is different for foreign players, especially those that had a large influence on international play like he did.
I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but there are a lot of foreign players that were never even good enough to play in the NBA during their absolute primes, let alone have a very good (but not great) career like Vlade did.
In terms of pure playing ability, Drazen Petrovic and Arvydas Sabonis are probably the only foreign players that were on a comparable level to US players that made it into the HoF through pro careers. Sadly, in Petrovic’s case, he died the season that he became really good, and Sabonis came over to the NBA when he was old, broken-down, with two badly fucked up knees and ankles missing much of their original tendons…
While agree wit hyour overall ‘point’ in this post, I think a more accurate description would be
80k a year, full medical, 3 weeks paid vacation, gas reimbursement
to
70k a year, full medical, 1 week paid vacation with 1 week ‘excusable absence’ in which you won’t get paid, but you won’t be penalized, no travel expensing…
the players have less issue with the salary and more the ‘benefits’ IMO
Whats weird to me…I’m a Jordan Brand whore…yet the way he’s been about this has put such a distaste in my mouth that I feel reluctant to buy his shoes.
