Most NBA owners are just not smart guys

[Pelicans78]

I agree with Kool and KilaKobe on this issue.

The Hornets have only themselves to blame for giving bad contracts to Posey, Peja, Mo-Pete, and now Ariza while also whiffing on the draft with Julian Wright, Hilton Armstrong, and Cedric Simmons. Plus they also traded a 1st round pick just to give themselves enough cap room to sign Posey for 4 years. Now they traded Collison and Thornton just to appease Paul and hopes that he stays when they should have started over in the offseason.

[spursballer21]

really one good "break-out" year of sorts...1 good year...and they open the bank vault for him...

and yet they complain...the league should contract..meaning cut loose the small market teams...(sorry SA) but seriously how can you complain about player salaries, revenue sharing etc, when you're doing like this.....it makes no sense...Dude will probably fall off next year he hasn't proven himself to me...1 really great year doesn't cut the mus or the "smell test" as they say......especially being a white guy in a black guy dominated league...based on that alone I'd be real reserved to throw that kind of money at him right away...he's subject to crack soon...

And you're smart? Learn how to write paragraphs. You write worse than a 10 year old.

[Koolaid_Man]

And you're smart? Learn how to write paragraphs. You write worse than a 10 year old.

it's nothing but a pause...for emphasis...to allow the slower thinkers amongst us to gather their thoughts....you know what I mean...

[Cry Havoc]

1. I did not use the Pack as an NBA example genius, anybody with a half a brain can see that. I used the Spurs.

Ah, so the one exception proves the rule. Interesting.

2. Injuries. Even a high market team is one key injury away from being out of le contention.

Yeah, Dallas really sucked after Caron Bulter went down. Oh wait, they went out and just signed a 6'9" SF, bringing their team salary this season to $90 mil +.

THE NFL bargained for this because Daniel Snyder, Jerry Jones and other MISMANAGED their teams by spending recklessly. The NBA tried to do the same by adding a rookie wage scale and putting caps on the amount of extensions. But until owners stop themselves from overspending it doesn't matter what mechanisms you put in place. The NFL has those mechanisms but AL Davis still overpaid Ashomgwa and the Redskins on haynesworth.

That's exactly my point, thank you. Teams will always overpay for players. The only difference right now is that if a small market overpays for a player, it basically dooms their franchise for the length of said contract. Even if they only make a couple of comparatively small moves, it really hamstrings them to bring in any big free agents. Meanwhile, teams like Dallas, Orlando, and LA make horrible contracts, and then just overpay the next player to come along and pick up the slack for them. In the NFL, it doesn't matter how big of a team you are, you can still ruin a franchise for a few years with bad moves.

Kool may be an asshole but his point that owners are dumb, has been proven over and over ... Just because Jerry (and im a cowboys fan) Jones knows how to build a stadium and is a successful business man doesnt mean he is smart when it comes to building a football team.

So the core of your argument is that an owner that's sufficiently idiotic can ruin a franchise? Shocking insight. We know this, and that has absolutely zero to do with the present contract situation in the NBA or the new CBA (we hope). The point is that small market teams in the NBA just cannot compete, unless they get incredibly lucky with a once in a lifetime player (you're seeing it in OKC now with Durant) AND get lucky with the draft. And even Durant is nowhere near enough to even guarantee the Thunder a Conference Finals berth in the next 5-6 years.