NBA: Kobe tweets out disgust on new CBA deal that makes owners more money

[Clipper Nation]

So would you watch the NBA if all current max players left? I probably would, since that would only mean Parker for the Spurs as of now.

Never mind that, we might actually get past the second round without the $107 million choker there to flop, overdribble, and brick in the clutch!

Please go on strike, Choke Paul - please!

[baseline bum]

So would you watch the NBA if all current max players left? I probably would, since that would only mean Parker for the Spurs as of now.

Of course I wouldn't. I thought I made that pretty clear in my initial statement.

[Silver&Black]

Bill Gates makes billions while the guy doing the programming makes probably 100K a year. Even the high end guys aren't making Gates style money. It's not fair.

Kobe needs to buy a team, see how much of his profit he's willing to share. , he won't even share the ing ball.

[baseline bum]

The only way the players should make more is if they take more of the risk than they do. If they take a loss when the team does poorly financially, that would go a long way toward helping them make more when the team makes more. But no, they wait for a windfall and want a boost, but they want guaranteed salary at the same time.

What risk do the owners take? The cities build them their arenas.

[Chinook]

Of course I wouldn't. I thought I made that pretty clear in my initial statement.

Not really. There are quite a few non-max players right now who are pretty good.

I think a GS/SA WCF would be pretty decent, as would a Wizards (without Wall) and Raptors ECF. Definitely a step down from now, but far and away better than the Euroleague.

[baseline bum]

Not really. There are quite a few non-max players right now who are pretty good.

I think a GS/SA WCF would be pretty decent, as would a Wizards (without Wall) and Raptors ECF. Definitely a step down from now, but far and away better than the Euroleague.

I'd watch Euroleague with all the top talent.

[DMC]

What risk do the owners take? The cities build them their arenas.

They have to buy the teams with a lot of capital. Any investment is a risk. Players don't invest a cent because they don't have one. They don't have the "supply" part wrapped up, because it's entertainment, not skilled labor like a doctor or plumber. The fact that the D-league players get paid like a normal factory worker, and some move to the NBA, is evidence enough that the owners (rich white men mostly) built an empire. If the NBA closed it's doors tomorrow, the owners would still be wealthy and the players would be broke in a year, mostly.

I do think the NBA needs to release players to make more money on their own name instead of taking profit from both ends.

[DMC]

I'd watch Euroleague with all the top talent.

They have owners as well.

[Chinook]

I'd watch Euroleague with all the top talent.

I doubt that many of them would go over. There'd be an influx of money for whoever took them, but it probably wouldn't be enough to give the players the contracts they want. I also think the quality of basketball would be terrible with so many domestic players going to new teams with different cultures. The NBA would be so much better than the mess that Euroleague would be.

[Thebesteva]

Can't win the conversation, change the subject.

No one is anti-player as much as pro-logic.

Why don't the people that work at McDonalds make as much as the CEO?

[Thebesteva]

What's your point? The league is always going to have it's main money winner. The same is true for horse racing, but does the horse get the profits? No. If that horse didn't race, another horse would win. If Lebron wasn't in the NBA, he'd be in prison most likely or bagging groceries or selling shoes at the mall. He wouldn't be owning an NBA franchise. If Mark Cuban didn't own an NBA franchise, he'd own some other high money making outfit because he's smart enough to make himself rich. Meanwhile the 7 foot Negroes we watch can't even speak properly. They have one thing and one thing only and only the educated business man can put them in a position to be successful with that one thing. There are people who play hacky sack like a mother er, they aren't getting 40m a year. Why? Because no one gives a . Would you stop watching the NBA if a whole new group of Negroes came in and the current Negroes left?

Players don't have leverage. That was illustrated plainly during the last CBA when Billy ing Hunter ass ed all of them (as did Fisher) by accepting a ty deal and pocketing a ton of money in the process.

Any time uneducated black men depend on an educated black man to have their backs, they get sold out to slave traders. History repeats itself. Rev Jackson, Sharpton, Obama... all ing over the black man and being rewarded highly for doing so.

Exactly, if Dwyane Wade was born 5'10, he'd be bagging groceries. These guys act like the NBA is keeping them from going on to becoming software engineers or aerospace workers.

This was the sperm 3 hours after Wade, he came out as Keith B instead

[Franklin]

The bag should be the last person in the whole world to complain about salary tbh.