KP just had his best season in 5 years, career highs in scoring, raw FG%, EFG and TS%, and assists. 1 games away from matching his high in games played. And will be just 28.
He has a market.
BREAKING: The Washington Wizards are trading three-time All-Star Bradley Beal to the Phoenix Suns for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, second-rounders
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He has a market.
Charlotte simply doesn't draft or run their team well. Indiana does well but are never really bad enough to draft a Steph, and aren't going to attract a free agent of that caliber.
The Warriors signed free agents to supplement their core. Iggy, Livingston, Barbosa, Bogut, Speights, KD. All of which was, again, possible with an MVP on a run of the mill guard deal.
The fact of the matter is Indiana and Golden State are playing on two different levels as far as desirability and financial market power. Boiling it down to "Team X is okay being bad" is lazy and disingenuous.
They traded their star player (that they drafted) for Bogut, they traded two 1sts for Iggy, the only reason they were able to sign KD was because of an unprecedented cap spike and Livingston/Barbosa/Speights were signed on small deals
And making it seem like teams have high payrolls because they’re just lazily tossing out “powerball contracts” isn’t disingenuous?
Why's that? As long as they have their scouting department they are good. Best team in the league with finding players for nothing and winning with them.
The cap spike wasn't the "only reason", if Steph makes superstar money from 2013-16, they're not in the market for KD.
I never attributed powerball contracts to how high any given NBA team's payroll is, though it's obviously a part of it, and that comment was about teams giving max deals to players who "show something" and hoping those players play into those deals by 25. And that usually does not happen with chip cores (though Poole seems to be breaking this rule).
So, no, it's not disingenuous because we can look at the next biggest league with 0 salary cap whatsoever and see where the franchises sit that are spending the most money.
New York
New York
San Diego
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Toronto
Atlanta
Dallas
Boston
Again, the Memphis Warriors don't have the same story.
Not liquid enough to pay a team 300M a year to win. Especially since he owns a bunch of teams and would have to do the same across the board.
So basically you agree with my point
The NBA didn't have to change the CBA to make teams with 3 stars pay a heavy tax then. They should've just left it alone.
I'm not seeing how what I said is agreeing with you.
KD will run up to Ishbia with a steel chair if he tries to get Dray.
Mayo used to be all over Twitter being Beal's mouthpiece
I don’t see how this is possible.
There’s a correlation with market size but it’s not one to one.
Cleveland has paid more luxury tax dollars in their history than Boston, Philly, Chicago, Atlanta & Houston combined. Portland & OKC have paid more than Boston, Philly & Chicago combined. It’s about ownership.
The Clippers used to avoid the tax like the plague before Ballmer bought the team from Sterling. Phoenix was known for being cheap and cutting corners under Sarver
And comparing to baseball is comparing apples to oranges because of the difference in spending on free agency. Those teams with sky high payrolls typically aren’t those who build organically. The Mets have the highest payroll and their 5 highest paid players were all free agent signings
Fire sale
Smokescreen. They can get a better deal out of the Pelitanks.
There's no mystery about this CBA.
The likes of CJ McCollum, Silver, and cheap owners formed up like Voltron to kill the Warriors no matter the cost.
They saw them actually manage to get the Dynasty Core, Weedplate, and a bunch of rejects and snotty-nosed kids into a team that not only won another ring but looked like the second coming of the Dynasty Warriors.
Their only reaction was to say "Oh hell nah" and make sure to empty the clip on them, even if their feet were on the way.
Ironically, they didn't even need to do shyt because the pre-existing cap hell and Draymond being a fukking idiot killed them before the new CBA even went into effect.
