Bill Simmons rips current NBA CBA

[Stop_It_5]

The reality is owners who want to be cheap are hiding behind the fear mongering of the taxes and aprons. Boston's literally running it back and paid everyone, when you have a championship core in place the restrictions mean nothing, it's about footing the bill. Denver lost KCP because they didn't want to go the extra financial mile for this Jokic window, ownership won their championship and said we're good



The audacity of this cac to talk about a 2nd apron Just tell the truth and admit you didn't want to further invest in an injury prone group that keeps falling short

 

[Stop_It_5]

dp

 

[nightwing2016]

They need to lessen the hit that teams take for players they draft and keep the free agency stuff. You can’t have teams collecting players like infinity stones during free agency but you should reward teams that draft well and develop their players because continuity helps fanbase grow

 

[In The Zone '98]

The reality is owners who want to be cheap are hiding behind the fear mongering of the taxes and aprons. Boston's literally running it back and paid everyone, when you have a championship core in place the restrictions mean nothing, it's about footing the bill. Denver lost KCP because they didn't want to go the extra financial mile for this Jokic window, ownership won their championship and said we're good



The audacity of this cac to talk about a 2nd apron Just tell the truth and admit you didn't want to further invest in an injury prone group that keeps falling short

Disingenuous tweet.

All salaries are increasing yoy on future deals.

 

[calh45]

They were more afraid of Ballmer. Dude is worth over $133 billion. He has more money than the rest of the owners combined.

Oh shyt. I completely forgot about him. His net worth jumped to $158 billion a day or two ago and I don't think he would mind spending $1 or $2 billion to get a dynasty in LA. The ROI on a championship team in LA even if it's the Clippers would be worth it for him.......and a potential move to Seattle if he was the one to do it.

 

[UpAndComing]

He’s right this second apron shyt is just ridiculous and a fukking waste

Isn't the apron going up with the new TV deal anyway?

 

[mastermind]

Yep. The NFL had the easiest fix too when they did run into CBA issues. They basically capped the rookie salaries to give more money to veterans. The vet minimum 20 years ago was $350k and now it's $960k. It has caused some issues with specific positions being "undervalued" because GMs don't know how to evaluate elite vs average to pay correctly, but that'll balance itself out.

They'll never get guaranteed like NBA players, but they got more money, pensions, and disability added to the CBA.

It's been said quite a few times. The NBA CBA is the result of cheap owners scared of Lacob going nuts because Chase Center is a cheat code for printing money while Steph is there.

NFL players lost money because of the rookie cap. Teams went younger because it was cheaper.

 

[Lord Beasley]

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

this is bullshyt. we wanna see comp, if you can develop stars you can build around them. i'm good with the NBA not becoming these shytty ass futbol leagues

 

[Don Homer]

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

this is dapfishing at its finest

the new CBA is objectively horrendous, and it has nothing to do with race relations, dude

 

[Still Benefited]

CBA was a complete overreaction to the Warriors and the cap spike. None of the Bostons, OKCs are gonna be able to have a core that last 10+ years together

It should be hard for a core to last 10+ years together anyway. But if the league didnt handicap defense you wouldnt have as many "stars" to pay anyway.

warriors ruined the league

This,but because of the 3 point shot

 

[Still Benefited]

My biggest issue with Simmons point is comparing NBA CBA/business model to the NFL. The NFL has a perfect one that no one can touch or replicate. The NBA wish they could do half of what the NFL could do. The bottom line is that the owners in all sports want a salary cap to level the playing field for teams and to keep salaries in check to some degree. MLB will eventually have a cap like the NBA does imo

The NFLs model was make things easier for QBs. Because they had the most impact on making a team better. So more competent qb play makes for more parity. Also allowed them to focus in on qb rivalries,which creates a mano v mano aspect for marketing, even though the entire team is important.The NBA is different than other sports,because its already had that mano v mano feel. Where it was about your star vs our star. The lack of defense,plus the 3 point shot just allows more guys to look like stars which actually hurts the marketability of stars. Plus hurts the cap and keeping cores together.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

F*ck Bill Simmons

 

[In The Zone '98]

F*ck Bill Simmons

No doubt about it. He had to be sued to hire more blacks at the ringer.

 

[SadimirPutin]

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 agree

Its funny to see owners complain about the CBA apron like they were some Pollyanna yokels when they sat down at the negotiating table...they had all the opportunity in the world to not slice their own wrist

 

[firemanBk]

The 2nd apron isn't the big issue
Teams massively overpaying players is the issue
Like they way overpay their starters and that's why they don't have enough to fill out the rest of their roster
OG 5/212
Like that's absolutely fukking crazy a guy who's never made All Star and likely never will is making 40mil+/year
Hartenstein 3/87
A guy who's never averaged a double/double making nearly 30mil/year

OG is closer to a 30mil/year player, Hartenstein should really be making like 15mil/year

I understand why those overpays were made but it's funny to be hearing like "oh no second apron" and then teams completely overpaying players anyway