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spursfan1000

11-21-2009, 02:56 PM

The Lakers have a player payroll of $91.3 million this season and will spend an additional $21.4 million in luxury taxes if their roster remains the same on the final day of the regular season.

Their total salary bill would be $112.7 million if they make no trades or minor free-agent acquisitions. Comparatively, they spent about $86 million last season, including luxury taxes.

That figure does not include Phil Jackson's $12-million salary to coach the team.

"As long as we keep winning, I think he'll keep doing it," center Andrew Bynum said.

Real Gm

21_Blessings

11-21-2009, 03:19 PM

The Yankees of basketball.

Oh since when did the MLB have a salary cap?

IronMexican

11-21-2009, 03:22 PM

Muser

11-21-2009, 03:24 PM

All this shows is that Buss is commited to winning.

21_Blessings

11-21-2009, 03:25 PM

And Buss is probably tripling on the money he spends. Shouldn't the Knicks be the Yankees of baseball? They did have the highest payroll for a very long time. And Buss isn't even one of the richest owners in the NBA.

Even more hilarious considering SA is paying the luxury tax this season - and they suck.

The baseball equivalent would be like the Pittsburgh Pirates fielding a 150 million dollar squad.

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 03:29 PM

Oh since when did the MLB have a salary cap?

Doesn't that make it WORSE that the Lakers spend so much then genius?

IronMexican

11-21-2009, 03:30 PM

Doesn't that make it WORSE that the Lakers spend so much then genius?

That means the Lakers are going over the top to keeping their players. It's not like baseball, where once free agency starts, it's a free for all. Lakers can't spend more than 6 million on a new player every summer.

21_Blessings

11-21-2009, 03:32 PM

Doesn't that make it WORSE that the Lakers spend so much then genius?

This is first season the Lakers have had the highest payroll in quite awhile.

The Yankees payroll is greater than a large chunk of the entire MLB combined, every single year.

iggypop123

11-21-2009, 03:34 PM

best owner in the nba. bangs 20 yr olds and wins

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 03:39 PM

This is first season the Lakers have had the highest payroll in quite awhile.

The Yankees payroll is greater than a large chunk of the entire MLB combined, every single year.

So they're this year's Yankees.

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 03:39 PM

I guess that's better than raping them.

:lol

21_Blessings

11-21-2009, 03:40 PM

So they're this year's Yankees.

You're stupid. Congrats.

I guess that means the Spurs are this year's Red Sox. :lol

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 03:43 PM

You're stupid. Congrats.

I guess that means the Spurs are this year's Red Sox. :lol

I understand if you're upset your team has to outspend every other team in the league to win but no need to disrespect the Spurs by calling them the Red Sox.

ginobili's bald spot

11-21-2009, 03:44 PM

Wow this is really breaking news. :rolleyes

ginobili's bald spot

11-21-2009, 03:45 PM

I understand if you're upset your team has to outspend every other team in the league to win

Is this the attempts at trash talk that spurfan has been reduced to? :lol
Sad.

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 03:47 PM

Is this the attempts at trash talk that spurfan has been reduced to? :lol
Sad.

Why would you cut out the rest when it's clear I'm just fuckin around?

21_Blessings

11-21-2009, 03:48 PM

I understand if you're upset your team has to outspend every other team in the league to win but no need to disrespect the Spurs by calling them the Red Sox.

I understand that the Spurs having to spend more than 90% of the league and still not coming close to winning a championship makes you upset.

No need to make retarded comparisons that don't make any sense.

Spursfan092120

11-21-2009, 03:49 PM

Nothing new here...Just shows Buss wants to win. Spurs are over the cap too. Let's not go there...Hate the Lakers all you want, but they're there at the end every year...just like us.

Spursfan092120

11-21-2009, 03:50 PM

I understand that the Spurs having to spend more than 90% of the league.
Proof that we spent more than 90% of the league last year?

j.dizzle

11-21-2009, 03:51 PM

Hahaha atleast they ain't wasting it like other teams that are spending almost as much..buss is a fuckin G

pauls931

11-21-2009, 04:07 PM

http://www.sportscity.com/NBA-Salaries/

Amare is getting too much, Gasol is getting a nice check too. Damn, LA is shelling out the bucks.

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 04:09 PM

Laker fans have sticks up collective asses. Must hurt to be faced with the truth.

Mel_13

11-21-2009, 04:25 PM

The Lakers are playing within the established rules, as are the Yankees. As long as they don't break the rules, the amount of their payroll does not diminish their accomplishments or make those achievements illegitimate in any way.

Culburn369

11-21-2009, 04:27 PM

Sharing the Staples Center with Sterling is tacky, but, the windfall must be astonishing.

Culburn369

11-21-2009, 04:28 PM

Laker fans have sticks up collective asses. Must hurt to be faced with the truth.

I got my stick, Shasta. 9 NBA World Titles under Buss' 30 year stewardship.

Allanon

11-21-2009, 04:32 PM

pauls931

11-21-2009, 04:35 PM

I can't believe the Suns paid Shaq 20mil and he's still getting 20mil with Cleveland...

Culburn369

11-21-2009, 04:36 PM

I can't believe the Suns paid Shaq 20mil

& you thought he was the livin' end comin' here. :lol

pauls931

11-21-2009, 04:38 PM

& you thought he was the livin' end comin' here. :lol

Hey at least he got Kobe 3 titles.

Culburn369

11-21-2009, 04:39 PM

Hey at least he got Kobe 3 titles.

Please. Kobe got him the first one. & without that first one, anything coulda happened.

F_U_Buddy

11-21-2009, 04:42 PM

Sharing the Staples Center with Sterling is tacky, but, the windfall must be astonishing.

Payroll numbers should start to drop overall when Ammo / Farmar / Sasha are history...and other players want to play in LA for the weather and scenery as opposed to the cash...

JamStone

11-21-2009, 04:57 PM

Can't compare the Lakers to the Yankees.

The Yankees can add multiple max players in the same off season without giving up anything. The Lakers can't. And, when they're over the cap, they can't add any max players without doing so in some kind of trade. Yankees added Sabathia, Teixeira, and Burnett last winter. That would be the equivalent of the Lakers adding Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, and Andre Iguodala over the summer. But, all they did was add Ron Artest, and couldn't afford to keep Ariza. It's pretty silly to compare any NBA team to the Yankees when it's essentially impossible for any NBA team to do what the Yankees are able to do every year.

angelbelow

11-21-2009, 05:04 PM

Oh since when did the MLB have a salary cap?

haha my thoughts exactly. there cant really be a yankees of b-ball since mlb doesnt have a cap.

IronMexican

11-21-2009, 05:10 PM

lil boosie

11-21-2009, 05:33 PM

Please. Kobe got him the first one. & without that first one, anything coulda happened.

Yeah, he won MVP and finals MVP in 2000. I'm sure Kobe "got him" the first one.

Rip-Hamilton32

11-21-2009, 06:14 PM

whats the point of a salary cap if you don't have to be under in order to be able to play

21_Blessings

11-21-2009, 07:01 PM

whats the point of a salary cap if you don't have to be under in order to be able to play

It's called luxury tax for a reason.

It allows teams to retain their draft picks/young guys while preventing talent cherry picking like we see with the Yankees.

carrao45

11-21-2009, 07:36 PM

I understand if you're upset your team has to outspend every other team in the league to win but no need to disrespect the Spurs by calling them the Red Sox.

Won last year w/o outspending every team...Spurs Suck this year

Culburn369

11-21-2009, 07:43 PM

Yeah, he won MVP and finals MVP in 2000. I'm sure Kobe "got him" the first one.

You stupid ass, you. We were finished Vs Portland, WCF, down 16, third quarter when Kobe brought them back. We had to get to the Finals in order for Daddy to get the baubles & pretties & first. Bryant made that possible.

Take it, and like it.

DUNCANownsKOBE2

11-21-2009, 07:58 PM

It's called luxury tax for a reason.

Baseball has a luxury tax as well.

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 08:00 PM

Spurs Suck this year

"Carrao45 with a DEVASTATING right hook!"

DUNCANownsKOBE2

11-21-2009, 08:10 PM

I think a hard salary cap in the NBA like the one in the NFL would do a lot of good, along with changing to partially guaranteed contracts with cap penalties. At the very least, the MLE should be changed to when you use it to sign a player, you need to cut a player making equal or more money and pay off the rest of his salary.

If a hard salary cap happens, I hope they wouldn't include revenue sharing like the NFL does. The Arizona Cardinals shouldn't make as much money as the Vikings for every Adrian Peterson jersey sold when they were too stupid to draft him when they could have, and the same goes for the ATL Hawks who shouldn't make as much money as the Hornets for every Chris Paul jersey sold.

KSeal

11-21-2009, 08:11 PM

Wow this is really breaking news. :rolleyes

This was my thought. This has been known for like two months now why the fuck is this a story all of a sudden.

lol at shatsa getting owned

Culburn369

11-21-2009, 08:11 PM

Never gonna happen, squirt. You're like a socialist, DUNCAN. You have nothing, and you want to share it. Uh, uh.

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 08:13 PM

This was my thought. This has been known for like two months now why the fuck is this a story all of a sudden.

lol at shatsa getting owned

Why are all you Laker fans so upset about this topic?

Culburn369

11-21-2009, 08:24 PM

Because you f'ers are always lookin' for a booger under our bed, Shasta.

KSeal

11-21-2009, 08:25 PM

Why are all you Laker fans so upset about this topic?

Not upset at all, just find it funny how this is a story out of nowhere when this has been known the day LO resigned.

eyeh8u

11-21-2009, 08:32 PM

Not upset at all, just find it funny how this is a story out of nowhere when this has been known the day LO resigned.

the story came from the LA times

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lakers-fyi21-2009nov21,0,4923213.story

it was printed now because of a slow news day, when the nba season starts, and there is no shooting guard/center drama, or a star being accused of rape, this is the stuff that get printed

DUNCANownsKOBE2

11-21-2009, 08:45 PM

Unlike the Yankees, the Lakers are paying to keep their own players. Outside of Artest, who was basically swapped for Ariza, this high salary jump is all about internal growth.

It's good to hire and promote from within.

Pau Gasol was all about internal growth? I don't think so. The main reason Sabathia is on the Yankees is because they have more spending power than the Brewers, and the main reason Gasol is on the Lakers is because they have more spending power than the Grizzlies. Yes, the NBA made it so they had to trade an expiring contract and unproven talent to get Gasol, but that expiring contract was a free agent they signed while they were over the cap because of the "sign and trade" rule.

I'm not trying to discredit the Lakers' championships, but don't act like the Lakers haven't taken full advantage of the NBA's soft salary cap that can be dodged if a team is willing to spend money. If the NBA salary cap was anything like the NFL's, the Lakers wouldn't be unaffected by the fact they're paying Morrison, Fisher, Vujacic and Walton a combined $20 million.

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 08:49 PM

This was my thought. This has been known for like two months now why the fuck is this a story all of a sudden.

lol at shatsa getting owned

Not upset at all, just find it funny how this is a story out of nowhere when this has been known the day LO resigned.

You seem kind of upset.

KSeal

11-21-2009, 08:53 PM

You seem kind of upset.

Not upset, if anything just irritated by the media. Not the story itself.

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 09:27 PM

Dude, you are on your way to 4-7. We have the title and our owner fucks 20 year old hotties, and hangs out at the Playboy Mansion. Why would we be upset? Even if you guys could afford to spend that kind of loot, you'd only throw it away by signing guys like Dick.

:lol

The post of someone who is clearly upset. You even felt the need to add that your owner has an active sex life with supposedly hot women.

Shastafarian

11-21-2009, 09:41 PM

Shasta, you've been butt-hurt since I've come to this site. Don't worry, I'll leave in about 5 years at the end of our reign.

You play for the Lakers?

Allanon

11-22-2009, 01:09 AM

Pau Gasol was all about internal growth? I don't think so. The main reason Sabathia is on the Yankees is because they have more spending power than the Brewers, and the main reason Gasol is on the Lakers is because they have more spending power than the Grizzlies. Yes, the NBA made it so they had to trade an expiring contract and unproven talent to get Gasol, but that expiring contract was a free agent they signed while they were over the cap because of the "sign and trade" rule.

I'm not trying to discredit the Lakers' championships, but don't act like the Lakers haven't taken full advantage of the NBA's soft salary cap that can be dodged if a team is willing to spend money. If the NBA salary cap was anything like the NFL's, the Lakers wouldn't be unaffected by the fact they're paying Morrison, Fisher, Vujacic and Walton a combined $20 million.

Pau Gasol was two seasons ago and replaced the salaries of Kwame Brown and Javaris Crittenton. Lakers still would have had to pay that same salary number. Pau wasn't the reason they entered the Luxury tax, they were already there by over-paying Kwame Brown.

Bynum (Lakers draft) & Ariza's growth (benchwarmer in Orlando) pretty much put the Lakers way into luxury tax. They pretty much account for $20 million and with luxury, that's $40 million more the Lakers have to spend this year. Lakers replaced Ariza with Artest in his same salary slot although Ariza reportedly wanted more.

Outside of the Artest/Ariza swap, the Lakers haven't had any good free agent signings for a few years now. All they've gotten is through trade of their own players or internal player development. Quite different from the Yankees. Biggest free agent signing was probably Derek Fisher for $5 million 3 seasons ago.

Lakers last year had maybe the 10th highest payroll. Jumped to #1 this year due to Bynum ($14 million) & Artest/Ariza ($6 million) = $20 million + $20 million tax = $40 million from 2 internally developed players.

Danny.Zhu

11-22-2009, 01:27 AM

This will make it more meaningful and exciting for the Spurs to beat Lakers and get the championship.

Culburn369

11-22-2009, 04:19 AM

This will make it more meaningful and exciting for the Spurs to beat Lakers and get the championship.

...& that 4-1 ass pounding at the hands of the Mavs would be a distant memory.

tee, hee.

duhoh

11-22-2009, 12:55 PM

...& that 4-1 ass pounding at the hands of the Mavs would be a distant memory.

tee, hee.

if it was 2v5, you would've been owned too.

we got owned though. :bang

Shastafarian

11-22-2009, 01:19 PM

...& that 4-1 ass pounding at the hands of the Mavs would be a distant memory.

tee, hee.

I enjoy how you only show up after the Lakers win. So you're a loser AND a pussy.

Culburn369

11-22-2009, 01:33 PM

I enjoy how you only show up after the Lakers win. So you're a loser AND a pussy.

It's a great thing. I enjoin somebody on game day. If I win, all well & good. If I lose, I'm locked out. All well & good.:lol

Anybody want to accommodate the Cubby for tonite's Lakers/Thunder game? I'll stay out for a week if we lose. If we win, you stay out for only 3 days. Now it can't be some jagoff with a 1 post history. Got to be a member with verifiable roots.