NBA drops insistence on non-guaranteed contracts

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AuqzeEhD.MpaKJP6aCqteDq8vLYF?slug=ap-nbalabor

[Fabbs]

I'm for the players on most all issues but the multi million multi year contracts being guaranteed, aren't some of them pure rip offs?
(Memorie a bit fuzzy but the SG years ago on the Knicks, kept pulling like 14 mil a year for several years?)

What are the details of this.

Now for your Gary Neal (who just finally made it) and Grizzly Blair types, if they blow out a knee I'm fine with their relatively lowball contracts being fullfilled.

Details? In English please.

[Bruno]

Non guaranteed contracts or hard cap isn't really important. What truly matters is how the money is split between players and owners. Right now it's 57/43 for the players. Make it 50/50 and everybody should be happy with that.

[GSH]

Non guaranteed contracts or hard cap isn't really important. What truly matters is how the money is split between players and owners. Right now it's 57/43 for the players. Make it 50/50 and everybody should be happy with that.


A 50/50 split would get the job done, as long as there was some reasonable revenue sharing. The other things, like a hard cap and guaranteed contracts are about the big market teams and superstar players getting the lion's share of the money. And those things aren't likely to change, because of the leverage that the big markets and superstars have.

[Fabbs]

Non guaranteed contracts or hard cap isn't really important. What truly matters is how the money is split between players and owners. Right now it's 57/43 for the players. Make it 50/50 and everybody should be happy with that.
I dunno the players sure seem to think guarantees are a must.
per BSPN:
The question of guaranteed contracts has been called a "blood issue" in the past by union director Billy Hunter, and the owners had earlier proposed a new system in which all contracts would contain only partial guarantees.

But that proposal was taken off the table Tuesday, with the owners agreeing to continue with the current system in which guarantees on individual contracts are a negotiable issue on a case-by-case basis.
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But yes the article says the players and owners seem to have moved past that issue for now.

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NBA players worry how fans would react to lockout
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Asq6WKiRpfgCavXIgPL8.Ly8vLYF?slug=ap-top100-nbaplayers

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e Grizzlies’ Tony Allen(notes) also was taking part in the coaching program, and while he said a work stoppage would “put a needle in the balloon” of momentum, he sees a rather simple solution.

Financial restraint by management.

“If you’re a GM, you’ve got to be smarter with your money,” he said, echoing a thought career scoring leader Kareem Abdul-Jabbar voiced Friday. “If you don’t want to give a guy $197 million and you believe he’s only worth 60 percent of that, sign him for just 60 percent of it.”

Abdul-Jabbar, who highlighted the importance of education in his chat with the campers, said he understands why fans won’t be sympathetic to arguments over enormous amounts of money.

“There’s a lot of guys that are overpaid, and that’s another issue that the owners need to deal with because certain people are overpaid and that’s ballooning the salaries to the point where the owners can’t recoup their investment,” the Lakers’ assistant coach said.











THAT IS WHY I AM ON THE PLAYERS SIDE
LAST YEAR OWNERS gave stupid contracts out
they have the right to say no