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I can't believe the Suns paid Shaq 20mil and he's still getting 20mil with Cleveland...
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.
I can't believe the Suns paid Shaq 20mil and he's still getting 20mil with Cleveland...
& you thought he was the livin' end comin' here.
Hey at least he got Kobe 3 les.& you thought he was the livin' end comin' here.
Please. Kobe got him the first one. & without that first one, anything coulda happened.
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...
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.
haha my thoughts exactly. there cant really be a yankees of b-ball since mlb doesnt have a cap.
Manchester, Chelsea, Madrid excluded. No , though. This is the closest spurfan can come to trolling Laker fans.
Yeah, he won MVP and finals MVP in 2000. I'm sure Kobe "got him" the first one.
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.
Won last year w/o outspending every team...Spurs Suck this year
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.
Baseball has a luxury tax as well.
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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.
This was my thought. This has been known for like two months now why the is this a story all of a sudden.Wow this is really breaking news.
lol at shatsa getting owned
Never gonna happen, squirt. You're like a socialist, DUNCAN. You have nothing, and you want to share it. Uh, uh.
Why are all you Laker fans so upset about this topic?
Because you f'ers are always lookin' for a booger under our bed, Shasta.
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-...,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
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.
You seem kind of upset.
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