Owners or Players?

[UKRAINEFAN]

Your surprise would fade if you had ever read an NBA CBA.

If you read the off-court restrictions on personal freedoms, everything from freedom of speech to freedom to choose your own friends to freedom to dress how you wish to freedom to follow your own personal health regimen....

No amount of money can loosen the yoke of slavery, in truth it tightens it.

They don't have to sign the contract, do they?

 

[BBert]

Posting on S2 is a kind of slavery.

barfo

Reading some posters on S2 is greater slavery.

 

[BBert]

They don't have to sign the contract, do they?

Or play basketball for tens of millions of dollars. Or play basketball, period. They could all get jobs changing light bulbs, or pruning trees. No wait, that would be slavery.

 

[barfo]

Or play basketball for tens of millions of dollars. Or play basketball, period. They could all get jobs changing light bulbs, or pruning trees. No wait, that would be slavery.

How many former NBA players does it take to change a light bulb?

barfo

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Wow, the most Clyde Drexler earned as a Portland Trailblazer was $1,578,000.

That's about what Elliot Williams is being paid.

o0

 

[Mediocre Man]

Players all the way.

I'm surprised how many posters support slavery.

This might be the most ignorant post I have ever seen on S2. You equate men making an average of 5 million dollars a year and living a lifestyle most people can only dream about with slavery?

 

[jlprk]

How do you know this? Do you earn $5 million? Walk in someone's shoes before you say they have it easy. I heard one of them committed suicide.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Who said it was easy?

 

[jlprk]

How can you so callously praise slavery?

 

[jlprk]

Just messing with you, Mediocre Man. I better not give you a heart attack.

If this were a weekday, more people would be here and I could get someone to start a big argument.

Where's PapaG lately?

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Some more perspective for you:

Clyde Drexler career earnings: $29,872,000
Greg Oden in five years (*plus $8.8 QO): $30,595,444

 

[Minstrel]

Some more perspective for you:

Clyde Drexler career earnings: $29,872,000
Greg Oden in five years (*plus $8.8 QO): $30,595,444

Yeah, inflation is weird. It's almost like the real world value of a dollar changes over time.

Did you know that in the good old days, you could get a newspaper, a cup of coffee and trolley ride for a nickel? Shopkeepers (and trolley conductors) are just ripping us off nowadays. I blame it on the Internet.

 

[Ed O]

Yeah, inflation is weird. It's almost like the real world value of a dollar changes over time.

Did you know that in the good old days, you could get a newspaper, a cup of coffee and trolley ride for a nickel? Shopkeepers (and trolley conductors) are just ripping us off nowadays. I blame it on the Internet.

As a quick approximation, grabbing the halfway point (or close to it) of Drexler's 15 year career... 1991. $30m in 1991 dollars is $49.77m in 2011 dollars.

Just to give some clarity how much (little) Drexler made in his career.

Ed O.

 

[Minstrel]

As a quick approximation, grabbing the halfway point (or close to it) of Drexler's 15 year career... 1991. $30m in 1991 dollars is $49.77m in 2011 dollars.

Just to give some clarity how much (little) Drexler made in his career.

Ed O.

That is more useful. Player salaries have grown a lot. It would be interesting to see a full analysis of owners' books to get a sense for how owner profits have changed over time.

 

[barfo]

That is more useful. Player salaries have grown a lot. It would be interesting to see a full analysis of owners' books to get a sense for how owner profits have changed over time.

A proxy for that (since we won't get that data) would be to look at how the price of buying a franchise has changed over time.

barfo