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All it takes is one little post to make someone look full-blown re ed.
Too bad the younger players are too dumb and uneducated to know what's going on.
"I jus wanna play BAWLL..."
All it takes is one little post to make someone look full-blown re ed.
At this point it is not a groundswell. If it were Media would be pounding the drums. After the owners & players--Media is the biggest loser since this thing went into the courts.
If players want more money they can just play better so they can negotiate better contracts. Seems pretty simple
Or owners can stop giving ty contracts to undeserving players, depriving good players of money they deserve, or the team itself out of money earned. Owners talk about how they are in the negative, conveniently leaving out the fact that many of them are over the cap and paying loads of luxury tax. Any who are somehow under the cap and losing money are just ing idiots that shouldn't own a team to begin with.
^Me & Stretch, Shoulder-to-Shoulder.
fwiw, owners who are billionaires in the NBA:
Prokorov -- NJN -- 13.4b
Allen -- POR -- 12.7b
DeVos -- ORL -- 4.3b
Arison -- MIA -- 4.1b
Kroenke -- DEN -- 2.7b
Cuban -- DAL -- 2.5b
Taylor -- MIN -- 2.2b
Heisley -- MEM -- 1.6b
Simon -- IND -- 1.25b
Kinda funny how some of the richest owners own small market teams.
uh...and this is why they are doing "negotiations".
Remember that time when that Calvin Booth guy had a couple moments in a playoff game and during the ensuing off season somebody gave him a ton of money? That was a hoot.
Yup, Booth signed a 6 year 34 million dollar contract for that. look at warrick, childress, and frye's contracts on the Suns. Remember guys like Jerome James and Eddy Curry? 5 years 30 million and 60 million with an 11 million dollar player option, respectively. Years back the Mavs paid Finley a ton of money to go win championships in SA. With waste like that going on, the owners really have no one but themselves to blame and no room to talk. But it's okay because whenever it does come back I won't watch much anyway. My basketball viewing has steadily decline ever since 06, and even a championship run could only spark my interest for a short while. These days I pretty much only watch the playoffs whenever back in the Reunion Arena days I would watch all 82 games. I hope the greedy s lose a lot of money over all this.
Remember when Bobby Simmons played good that one year, got a nice contract and proceeded to suck balls since then? That was also a hoot
the list can go on and on lol and these s are really going to complain whenever they were the re s making all the bad contracts??? gtfo lol
You mean Turkoglu isn't worth 50 million?
is big ty worth 21 million? hahah
Rememba dat time when a Javaris "felon" Critterton + Kwame Brown was worth a Pau Gasol? That was not hoot, tbh
These toxic contracts became part of the fabric of the NBA. The owners never ed out loud. The teams never ed out loud. They would just usher the player aside (Adonal Foyle comes to mind) and business went on per usual.
Me too. Survival of the fittest. You buy a Mcdonald's franchise and the business model fails ...you dont get to go crying to Mcdonald's that the location you chose was poor or the employees that you are hired are ...and ask them to change the rules so you can compete with franchises that are in better locations or are run more efficiently.
The screwed the pooch, I have no sympathy for the owners. Not one man on here would just bend over and take a 7% paycut especially if you were the most profitable employee that your company had. I know that is not true for the rank and file.... But I dont blame the players for wanting to make sure that future earnings and player movement is protected. the fact that SOME of the players make millions is irrelevant. The owners created that mess. Luke walton, his boyfriend and many other mult-millionaire scrubs were bad business decions period. Im all for limiting the number of years for MLE type players and rookies ... making sure only the stars are getting star money ...but all of the rest is bull- . Why should a successful owner have to carry the load for franchises that already dillute the talent level? That is socialist in spirit, thought this was capitalist society? Luxury taxes is basicaly welfare for the rich ...what kind of bull- is that?
Long-term the League needs to contract, re-allocate that talent to teams and cities that are successful.
And dont tell me small market teams cant compete look at the Spurs ...and I know some will say they got "lucky" but the clips have been in the same market as the Lakers and been one of the worst run franchises in ALL of pro sports.
Don't bail out ...dumb business owners ...your dilluting the "gene pool" ...
I remember the first Sunday after the trade they had the Lakers on ABC and did an interview right afte the game ended with Bryant. He was actually giddy, jumpin' around like Cruise did that time on Oprah when he was nuttin' in the Holmes' girls' poot.
No game face, no set jaw, or dry mouth. Uh, uh. Kobe was actually happy. I never saw him that happy even when Mackey saved his hash at Eagle. He knew that Gasol was the goods. , I had my doubts. The SOB wouldn't get any closer than 18 foot from the rim whenever I saw him in a game, but, he soldiered for us.
You look at the top two and you think "they are close in worth" then you think "wait, if I had 10 dollars and some other guy had 800 million, that wouldn't be close"
Actually it's 900 million but what's a 100 million here and there?
When they get to that level, it's sorta pointless to even talk about it.
Prokorov's .4 is Peter Holt x 5.
I don't see how anyone can consider bull contracts without thinking Marbury.
if you waste a #1 pick on a gigantic piece of and pay him a total of 39m in two years when he did basically nothing but resting his yellow ass, i say you have no one to blame but yourself.
^That shtick is really worn the out. You should find another.
i think he wore out his "shtick" on your ass boy crofl
You need to get with your alter egos and get better material.
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