Joe Lacob admits that Warriors spending is not sitting well across the NBA

Will more teams follow the Warriors spending?


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kdslittlebro

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Unbelievable they did that looking back. Harden wasn't even getting a Max max, just a max rookie extension and they wasn't having it? :dead:
Oil & Gas brokebois “couldn’t” afford to foot 5 more mill directly off a fukkin Finals run with your oldest of your 3 stars being 20 fukkin 3. If I’m Presti you gotta fire me, I’m not having that trade on my jacket. I’ve held him just as culpable all this time. I have my moments where I’m over it but I don’t think I ever fully will be :mjcry: if you gotta trade, trade Russ ass. Harden was the de facto PG anyway. He definitely slumped in the Finals (that they 100% don’t get to without him), but he didn’t have Magic calling one of his performances one of the worst he ever saw either :russ:
 

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Once Ballmer develops his own talent, he's gonna be a problem.
Well see if we ever keep them. Boston might be special, Mann is worse than clippers fans want to admit but better than most people want to acknowledge, Coffey might be a solid rotation player, Zu has worked out great. I could see all of these dudes getting traded if the right deal comes along. That coupled with we just don’t really have enough minutes to go around it’s tough to see how anyone will develop. Team is probably 4-5 years from that which thankfully lines up with them getting their first round pick back.
 

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Unbelievable they did that looking back. Harden wasn't even getting a Max max, just a max rookie extension and they wasn't having it? :dead:
It was the max at the time, and bench players weren't getting that kind of money.

To compare: nobody is asking the Warriors to give Poole a max deal, but the expectation was that James Harden would get max money to be a 6th man.
 

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fukk the league. shyt woulda never happened if the bumblefukks in OKC didn’t quibble over 5 mill with Harden. Let this be a lesson: shyt or get off the fukkin pot. If you can’t afford to pay for your homegrown talent that is chip-worthy, sell the team or make sure you stay hydrated, because that treadmill ain’t going anywhere.
Thats not how it went down lol.

Westbrook and durants contracts were retroactively raised ( rose rules two 30% cap players etc) with the new cba which added the luxury tax after the lock out in order to break up the heat. However, it broke up the thunder and not the heat . No team at that time was going into the repeater. Different nba different okc owners
 

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The repeater tax needs to be revised. The warriors aren't like the Yankees and just putting in the highest bid for the top free agents (not like you really could do that anyways in the NBA). They're spending money retaining talent that they've drafted and are getting penalized for it. They need to to revise the repeater tax to not count salaries paid for players drafted by the team or change the multiplier for drafted players or some shyt.
This.

If you look at the Warriors roster, that team was mostly built with rejects (Wiggins), vet min journeymen trying to prove they could get a bag (GP2), and drafted players (Steph, Klay, Dray, Loon, Poole).

Of course, the league won't do anything about that bullshyt tax because they don't want dynasties and the other owners are at least trying to pretend they'll compete one day.

Silver already went on record about the situation talking about how it's not just sharing revenue, there's also supposed to be some "player sharing" or some nonsense like that, so he's going to keep the pressure on to force the Warriors to break it up.

And that explains this:
When the Warriors went deep into the luxury tax for bum ass Kelly Oubre the league was quiet
 

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Thats not how it went down lol.

Westbrook and durants contracts were retroactively raised ( rose rules two 30% cap players etc) with the new cba which added the luxury tax after the lock out in order to break up the heat. However, it broke up the thunder and not the heat . No team at that time was going into the repeater. Different nba different okc owners

You right on the timing specifics, but end of the day they weren’t in everybody else’s position. It’s not a strong WOAT contender for nothing bro. If the oil money was good at the time, they woulda had no issue going into tax. On top of the bullshyt negotiating tactics. There’s no saving face for them IMO, but I won’t tell you you wrong
 

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The hell are you talking about? They own the team outright… Purchased the team for $450m and now worth $4B… Chase center they paid for out of their pocket.. $700m in revenue last year alone..
Didn’t they get a loan from Goldman Sachs or some shyt to pay for Chase Center? Privately financed just means they didn’t get any public funds.
 
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