Bill Simmons rips current NBA CBA

[tremonthustler1]

eliminate the max.

this shyt of teams feeling forced to give cats the max just because is dumb.

they do that because someone else will. OG got that much money because Morey might have pivoted to him and was one of the only teams that had cap space to do so. Can't tell me the league needs expansion because all these players need homes yet 40 games of OG Anunoby is the most irreplaceable commodity in basketball.

and baseball gets a lot of hell for how slow their offseason goes, but without a max contract, LeBron doesn't sign a contract til the day of the season opener. Rich Paul will be like Flynn in The Temptations.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Nahhhhh make it even more restrictive in who qualifies for it and who doesn’t.

If you win awards or make All NBA team, then you should be awarded those deals.

Teams are just going to have to start pushing back on them and moving players like the Clippers and NO is doing now with Ingram.

NBA owners need to start colluding. The nfl does it

If a player like Patrick williams hasn’t earned anything his team should be able to sign him to a prove it type deal (2 yrs/10mill) with no other teams offering anything

 

[L. Deezy]

eh.. just dont compare it to football.

US, diehard, NFL fans are more devoted to a team than players anyway and the league is fine with that. I actually enjoyed the NBA playoffs for a change without the usual suspects participating which is promising. The players who jump around are usually star players that failed where they were anyway. Nobody should have cared where Paul George was going. He toast as fuhk. NBA in a bad place all around with direction. Do they want the low IQ AAU bred players or FIBA Basketball player led league? Nobody even knew who the draft picks were...lol

It was a Bronny James watch for god sakes..lmaooo

 

[desjardins]

IIRC the second apron is not just an additional tax penalty but also has draft implications of some sort
either way I don't care
let teams lose players, having more parity is better to ME so it is what it is. It will put some limits on the dikkriding super team stuff of the last couple years and for teams that draft well like OKC they can always package some of those good drafted players in other deals

 

[Bigblackted4]

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

Your being obtuse for no reason, this is going to eliminate the middle class. Basically there will be a bunch of high paid players and everybody else below the mid level.

 

[Bigblackted4]

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

MLB will never have this because their owners are cheap af and just want to bank money. fukking Guardians/Indians never spend money and win so there's no reason to start when you can bank money.

 

[pete clemenza]

 

[pete clemenza]

GOOD

NBA is the worse league for player development.

maybe those late to second round draft picks become more valuable

The 15 man rosters are basically full. Nobody retires theses days. Two rounds of a draft every season. G League is full. Overseas prospects coming over in droves. If there's no expansion, it's going to be tough to make a NBA roster in a couple of years.

 

[calh45]

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

Younger doesn't mean less money. Overall they have gotten a bigger piece of the pie and the players who are there salaries have doubled in the past decade. They're doing right by the ones who become vets and teams have learned in the past handful of years that going younger has a big ass downside if you can't draft right and develop players. They initially went cheap then realized you have to pay vets if you want to win.

 

[mastermind]

Younger doesn't mean less money. Overall they have gotten a bigger piece of the pie and the players who are there salaries have doubled in the past decade. They're doing right by the ones who become vets and teams have learned in the past handful of years that going younger has a big ass downside if you can't draft right and develop players. They initially went cheap then realized you have to pay vets if you want to win.

Star players salaries doubled, and that’s mostly just QBs.

They got rid of middle and lower level players for cheaper rookies.

ThIS is a big reason why running backs don’t get big contracts anymore.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Dude is a die hard fan of the winningest franchise in north america outside of the yankees, who JUST won a title, and he's saying the league should care about good basketball and not parity. GTFOH

 

[calh45]

Star players salaries doubled, and that’s mostly just QBs.

They got rid of middle and lower level players for cheaper rookies.

ThIS is a big reason why running backs don’t get big contracts anymore.

The RB issue is specific to a singular position. They DID get rid of middle and lower level players, and then it burned them, and then they changed their tune. The average roster turnover is 25%, but good teams aren't not replacing a ton of people with rookies or unproven young players.

First, they stopped doing that with offensive lineman because their QBs were getting blasted and rookies ain't know what they were doing. Next was defensive lineman because QBs were playing 7 on 7. The past few years it's been WRs or TEs and I'm assuming corners will be next. Nico Collins level WRs getting $24 million annually. Jaylen Waddle is getting $28 million annually. They're not top 10 WRs, but they're both in the top 10 pay wise and they're both still young. Going younger doesn't equate to cheaper. The CBA is doing it's job when upper mid tier WRs are getting paid like this.

RBs will have their day in the sun depending on how this Saquon and Henry and Jacobs deals work out.

 

[Bigblackted4]

The RB issue is specific to a singular position. They DID get rid of middle and lower level players, and then it burned them, and then they changed their tune. The average roster turnover is 25%, but good teams aren't not replacing a ton of people with rookies or unproven young players.

First, they stopped doing that with offensive lineman because their QBs were getting blasted and rookies ain't know what they were doing. Next was defensive lineman because QBs were playing 7 on 7. The past few years it's been WRs or TEs and I'm assuming corners will be next. Nico Collins level WRs getting $24 million annually. Jaylen Waddle is getting $28 million annually. They're not top 10 WRs, but they're both in the top 10 pay wise and they're both still young. Going younger doesn't equate to cheaper. The CBA is doing it's job when upper mid tier WRs are getting paid like this.

RBs will have their day in the sun depending on how this Saquon and Henry and Jacobs deals work out.

The two receivers you named are top 25-30 and everyone starts two or three receivers. They are top 25 percent players at their positions there’s over 150 receivers on the league

 

[duckbutta]

How about they don't try to build their team with 3 max contracts and 70 something million dollar bench player

 

[wtfyomom]

hes only saying this because hes a boston fan and wants them to stay on top with no comp