:lol NBA

[Brazil]

GMs and players seem all in panic mode...

:lol 3 yrs / 46 for Parsons
:lol Bosh getting a max offer
:lol Lebron weighing his options and entertaining idea to come back to Cleveland after the letter
:lol Wade selfies I'm not worried
:lol getting a mess out of Melo future
:lol NBA

meanwhile Spurs resign Diaw, Mills and extend Pop for 5 years...

NBA is f:lolcked

[~O~]

Hold the flag and hold it strong. :flag:

[Texas_Ranger]

:lol Gordon Hayward

[~O~]

Gordon Haywards Contract has to be the worst out of all of them. The Parsons contract almost matches.

[Brazil]

:lol Gordon Hayward

:lol forgot dat one

[ambchang]

The unfortunate situation is that players like Lebron can "only" earn a max of about $21M, while a player like Parsons and Hayward are getting paid $16M. Lebron is without a doubt worth way more than $5M than those players put together, but the CBA is done so horribly that things like this is happening.

It makes zero sense for max players to make sacrifices so that they can overpay these mid talent folks. It should be the other way around that if a mid level guy wants to win and contribute, take a paycut to join the best players.

Whether you are overpaying Lebron or Haywood or Ayres $10M a year, it still counts as $10M against the cap.

Then there's this skimming from the owners part where they are cutting spending on coaches and wasting talent. OKC, Rockets, and Warriors would be contenders with a decent coach, a coach like Carlisle or Pop would make them an instant championship team, and yet these teams decided to go for Brooks and McHale, and only got ride of Jackson because he clashed with ownership.

[Captivus]

Salaries should be defined using PER.

[Kidd K]

The unfortunate situation is that players like Lebron can "only" earn a max of about $21M, while a player like Parsons and Hayward are getting paid $16M. Lebron is without a doubt worth way more than $5M than those players put together, but the CBA is done so horribly that things like this is happening.

It makes zero sense for max players to make sacrifices so that they can overpay these mid talent folks. It should be the other way around that if a mid level guy wants to win and contribute, take a paycut to join the best players.

Whether you are overpaying Lebron or Haywood or Ayres $10M a year, it still counts as $10M against the cap.

Then there's this skimming from the owners part where they are cutting spending on coaches and wasting talent. OKC, Rockets, and Warriors would be contenders with a decent coach, a coach like Carlisle or Pop would make them an instant championship team, and yet these teams decided to go for Brooks and McHale, and only got ride of Jackson because he clashed with ownership.

I totally agree with this actually. Decent but not great players like Parsons are getting way more than they're worth because the real stars have their contracts capped at questionable amounts.

There's still the issue of opening Pandora's box by allowing teams to offer unlimited contracts to people (like Kobe) while still letting them buy other players, but LeBron and other megastars getting jobbed out of their cash so mediocre players like Parsons and Boozer can get bigger paydays is a joke.

[Brazil]

difficult to imagine a better offseason so far for the Spurs

:lol NBA