Bill Simmons rips current NBA CBA

[FakeNews]

Simmons believes the NBA chased competitive balance and an equal playing field at the expense of a compelling on-court product.

“Ultimately, the league should care about good basketball,” the Ringer founder said. “Basically what they’ve done with this whole system is they’re so desperate to create parity and to not have that bottom half of teams that suck that they’re penalizing the teams that are smart.”

Simmons also listed numerous other issues with the NBA that league executives could be fixing instead of bringing the hammer down on player salaries and manufacturing balance.

“What the league should actually want if they really cared about this s***, which I’m not positive they do, because if they cared about the overall health of the league, the schedule wouldn’t be 82 games, we wouldn’t be in this situation where it’s roulette every summer with guys just jumping around and 15 teams that are unhappy and 20 superstars and stars who are unhappy,” Simmons said. “One of the things we should fix is the continuity piece, and rewarding franchises for continuity, for drafting players correctly, for keeping nucleuses together. [That] should be what the league wants.”

Simmons believes the NBA, which already faced challenges around constant roster turnover, will only see more churn in the future.

“It’s too late now to fix it. I guess what bugs me is we’re probably not going to see great runs again,” Simmons said. “What we have with (Nikola) Jokic and (Jamal) Murray (in Denver) and what we have with (Jayson) Tatum and (Jaylen) Brown (in Boston), those are going to be anomalies. That’s not going to be the foundation of what the league is going forward. The foundation is going to be guys jumping around.”

Simmons is a prominent voice and advocate for the NBA. His words likely carry weight for league decision-makers.

As much as his monologue was a rant, it was likely also a plea for someone with the power to change it to do so.

Bill Simmons: The NFL is a more fun, better-run league than the NBA right now

Bill Simmons delivered a plea to the NBA to get its priorities straight before saying the NFL has overtaken it even for him, an NBA diehard.

awfulannouncing.com

 

[Raquinotj]

NBA: “go ahead Draft well and develop players that those same players become stars and you have to get rid of them to avoid ridiculous tax penalties”

 

[KevJ]

He’s not wrong.

 

[thenatural]

Didn't they have have a team that kept it's nucleus together for over a decade and it ended because of whatever circumstance. Players have been disgruntled and shown diva behavior because of #ringz for a long ass time. People have been screaming for less games, but owners aren't doing it.


But we all know this rant is about the Celtics being penalized down the road for the Tatum and Brown contracts. He's going to be whining when they actually have to make their scouts and GMs work harder to find cheap talent to put around them.

 

[Marc Spector]

warriors ruined the league

 

[Rosecrans]

Cac is just mad to see the players getting paid huge money and masking it with this garbage take

 

[FunkDoc1112]

He's right. As much as whiny ass fans like to pretend they care about parity, they don't. This shyt was to placate cheap ass small market owners

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Cac is just mad to see the players getting paid huge money and masking it with this garbage take

It's literally the exact opposite; that fake militancy be frying yall brain receptors

 

[triplehate]

He's right. As much as whiny ass fans like to pretend they care about parity, they don't. This shyt was to placate cheap ass small market owners

I mean yeah, it is just a business at the end of the day. We the only ones that care about the outcomes

 

[MVike28]

It's literally the exact opposite; that fake militancy be frying yall brain receptors

Reading is essential and dudes come into threads like this with auto bot responses

 

[Left.A1]

NBA fans are literally worse than a nagging bytch the only conversations that ever get elevated are those that include some sort of moaning and crying about something related to the sport. nikkas doing meltdowns over the 55th pick in a 58 man draft, nikkas talking about the TV deal going to go bad because of low ratings, fans actively begging for the owners to "punish" the players during labor negotiations lol... Ive never seen a worse audience for any of the major sports that hates their league more than NBA fans it's incessant and sad.

 

[Primetime]

I think it's more different than "bad". If you're going to front-load your team with 3 big "stars", then those 3 better be available and optimal in what they bring to your team.

i.e.

• Maga plays like a 200m/5yr guy (like he did vs LAL), DEN probably returns to the Finals, shyt depth or not
• KAT plays like a 224m/4 year guy (like he does once every 5 games), MIN is likely in the Finals
• Embiid/Maxey/PG... Giannis/Dame/Khris... KD/Booker/Beal... all play mesh and jell like their fans/management "hope"... those actually would be compelling products.

...but if they don't, bc they're injured old don't jell inconsistent or simply aren't as good as hyped... it is what it is.

 

[Nero Christ]

Folks don't know what they want...whined, complained, & bytched that GS was winning too much. Now one team isn''t winning enough and if the NBA went back to the old team structure rules, yall would start complaining about that too. People refuse to acknowledge that outside of MJ, Magic/Bird, & Curry/Bron...the NBA isn't that loved in the US.

Look at what Clark is doing for the WNBA...the sport doesn't hinge on parity or super teams but stars. You have those, the ratings will do well.

 

[mastermind]

He's right. As much as whiny ass fans like to pretend they care about parity, they don't. This shyt was to placate cheap ass small market owners

While he’s right, he was crying about the Heatles and the Warriors teams as much as anyone.

But I’ve always said we all want to see dynasties. It’s what makes the NBA great.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Didn't they have have a team that kept it's nucleus together for over a decade and it ended because of whatever circumstance. Players have been disgruntled and shown diva behavior because of #ringz for a long ass time. People have been screaming for less games, but owners aren't doing it.


But we all know this rant is about the Celtics being penalized down the road for the Tatum and Brown contracts. He's going to be whining when they actually have to make their scouts and GMs work harder to find cheap talent to put around them.

Owners and players don't want less games

They need to do a better job to reward those who draft well somehow