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Fez Hammersticks

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Wow, this is brutal.

The proposal, a source familiar with talks said, includes rollbacks that could reduce maximum guaranteed salaries, both for veterans such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, as well as up-and-comers like Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose, to almost a third of what they would have been eligible for under the current agreement.

Perhaps the biggest shocker: The owners' proposal includes a provision that would require any preexisting deals to be revised to conform to the new deal's limits.
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I'd go the other rout and leave the cap where it is and have the contracts non-guaranteed.

If you aren't playing to your contract it just puts that much pressure on the player to perform.
 
I'd go the other rout and leave the cap where it is and have the contracts non-guaranteed.
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Word. It's already bad enough these clowns are overpaid.
 
Fez "The Situation" Bush said:
I'd go the other rout and leave the cap where it is and have the contracts non-guaranteed.

If you aren't playing to your contract it just puts that much pressure on the player to perform.
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I really like the idea of non-guaranteed contracts. Have for many years.

But it won't happen. The union will have to implode before then for that to happen.
 
They're overpaid as is. It won't work though.
 
Hmmm ... looks like I'm going to have to get a life winter of 2011-2012
 
I don't mind a holdout.

No fucking way should a person make $15m-$20m a year to play a game.
 
"The NBA, another corporation sending jobs overseas."
 
rocketeer said:
so the owners should make all the money instead?
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Exactly. If they aren't worth it, the owners wouldn't have given it to them.

If someones dumb enough to give it to you, you are worth it.

That being said, professional sports in this country are horrible bloated pigs.

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I don't see how the NBA can change pre-existing contracts. That would be a legal battle of epic proportions.
 
it's a standard negotiation tactic to not ask for what you're going to settle for...

who should I empathize with more in a squabble over splitting profits? Millionaire players or billionaire owners

STOMP
 
I think they should donate the money to the "DynastYWarrioR6 Foundation"

"Save me, so I can save others!"
 
The article has an agent saying that this is just a negotiation position. It says it's unprecedented that this is proposed 1 1/2 years before the contract expires.

There is no chance that Stern will succeed in cutting previous contracts, but by making them spend time on this issue, he knocks the breath out of them. They'll be too engaged fighting for no decrease to fight for an increase. His game strategy is to make them play defense so they won't have the energy for offense.

The big picture is that the league is contracting, financially. A company going through this normally changes its head guy. Stern keeps his job by hiring no competent assistants. The owners have no alternative choices to him.
 
no way something this drastic happens

and screw non-guaranteed contracts....it screws with team chemistry and promotes holdouts which I dont blame the player for doing when he "over-performed" but is just lame
 
make the luxury tax 3 million for every one million....that will slow stupid GMs down
 
If this happens... the best ballers will all go to europe. guaranteed
 
Natebishop3 said:
I don't see how the NBA can change pre-existing contracts. That would be a legal battle of epic proportions.
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The NHL reduced contracts during their last round of negotiations.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26366

"EXISTING CONTRACTS

What is the status of existing player contracts?

Every year of every existing NHL player contract (plus signing, roster and reporting bonuses, performance bonuses, marketing fees and any and all other payments due under existing contracts) will be reduced by 24 percent.

What is the status of 2004-05 player contracts?

All contracts for the 2004-05 season will be deemed eliminated"
 
yakbladder said:
I really like the idea of non-guaranteed contracts. Have for many years.

But it won't happen. The union will have to implode before then for that to happen.
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You know I thought the same thing and then the NFL did it.
 
DaRizzle said:
make the luxury tax 3 million for every one million....that will slow stupid GMs down
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It also creates the Donald Sterlings of the league. He purposefully keeps his team under the cap and stinking so that he can reap the rewards from the luxury cap teams.
 
I hope the Blazers can compete for a title next season. Nobody knows if there will be a season in 2011-12. It would suck in epic proportions if this pirate battle deprived Blazer fans of one of the best years out of our title window.
 
This "leak" is a classic anchoring strategy.

As long as there are bat shit crazy owners in the Euroleague, the NBA doesn't have the massive leverage they'd need to enact such draconian rules.
 
Well, in any given season you have maybe 1/4th or 1/5th of all the players running into free agency. You probably could start a new league if you had a little money and a lot of ambition. Start with six teams, put them in Pittsburgh and St Louis and shit so that the fan base isn't torn, fill them out with free agents, wait to see if owners (who are demanding a price reduction) will match restricted free agent contracts, also draft picks don't have any contractual obligations anyway...

Okay, there's not a lot of money in that right off, but I bet you could really get the owners' attention. I'm not really for or against a side, I just hate it when sports do lockouts and strikes. Fuck 'em.
 
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