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Yeah, the NBA salary cap is a joke. Until they put a hard salary cap in place like the NFL, it's going to be the Lakers' le to lose every year.
With the Lakers win, that makes five les in ten years, and seven trips. Not to mention the Spurs 4 les in the last near-decade.
So, is it a truth tha the NBA has surpassed the MLB for least compe ive? Does anyone think a team like the Raptors even has a shot next year?
Yeah, the NBA salary cap is a joke. Until they put a hard salary cap in place like the NFL, it's going to be the Lakers' le to lose every year.
Sorta, just hot markets draw the best players and if they may the playoffs, make more money to afford better players. Having owners with money is nice too.
Yep, the floodgates were torn off their hinges last night by Artest. An infinite peat is ours for the taking.
Let us proceed...
Let me get this right. There is a cap, but if you go over it you pay 'luxury tax'. Right? So if a team is loaded, they probably make enough extra money in playoff games/merchandise to eat the tax and outspend other teams, right?
Yep. Thus it will never end. The lockout better resolve all of this crap.
Correct, while in the NFL, there's a salary cap all teams need to be under by the start of the season.
Right.
Instead of ing now, get on your protest and get the rules changed so when we're sitting here again next year tied with the Celtics and you're at O & 43, I won't have to remind you to protest and the get the rules changed before we surpass the Celtics and you go to O & 44.
Understand rubberband?
In order to get the hard cap you'd need to lose guaranteed contracts, that won't happen any time soon
Fortunately the ty economy is the one thing that might lead to it happening.
Yer all up to your asses in alligators.
ha, ha.
Non-guaranteed contracts is more me just finding it stupid how players get to play half assed till their contract year and then play hard. Wouldn't you like to be able to cut Luke Walton and Sasha Vujacic right now Cully?
No. The victory last night precludes changes to the core, and the bench, aside from Farmar and Morrison, who's contracts have exhausted themselves naturally.
You default to the static for at least another year. Don't fix which ain't broke.
Meh that at ude is how teams don't repeat imo. The same coulda been said last year but LA knew they needed to improve if they wanted to repeat so they upgraded at SF. I've always agreed with you that Fisher should be the starter there as long as he's able to walk since he's the only PG in the NBA Kobe trusts, but I can see LA using the MLE to get a PG who can play major minutes during the regular season and be groomed as Fisher's replacement so Fish is fresh for the playoffs. They could also add a veteran C so their lack of depth at big man doesn't make them rely on Bynum staying healthy.
C'mon, if Ariza hadn't been a free agent we'd a never made a change. I'm honest enough to admit that.
The NBA is the only league where upsets rarely happen. #8 Warriors beat the #1 Mavs a couple years back, but thats the only example.
There is no compe ive balance in the NBA. The ultra-soft and convoluted cap certainly doesnt help, either.
But really, all the non-luxury tax teams cant too much, theyre the ones benefitting from the luxury tax teams.
The NBA is the MLB-Lite. Minus a game mechanic like pitching that can equal any playing field. If a team has excellent pitching and defense, anything can happen. Not so much in the NBA.
Side note: Last night was the ugliest Game 7 of any sport I have ever witnessed. Congrats to the Lakers though for coming back down 3-2 in the series and a 13 pt deficit. They earned it, Boston choked it away at the end.
Hey, I didn't until after the le, did I?Now that the season is over, I'm all for looking at ways to fix the balance of the league. (Also, now that the Celtics are old and about to be non- le contenders. Yup, I'll admit it.)
If they had Ariza instead of Artest they don't repeat, plain and simple, do you agree? Either by accident or not, they made that improvement and that's why they repeated. Ariza instead of Artest doesn't force Paul Pierce into the wildly inconsistent series he had, while it allows for Boston to switch Pierce onto Kobe at times since Ray is perfectly capable of guarding Ariza while Artest woulda exploited his lack of size.
If Ariza hadn't been a free agent they still woulda used their MLE on someone, possibly they still use it on Artest since as you said Artest is what got Odom to resign. I still can't believe I have to fathom another year of LA being defending champions, but I respect how little complacency that organization shows. The Suns lose in the 2nd round in 2007 and take the at ude that they're happy with their team, and the Lakers win it all in 2009 and take the at ude to make opportunistic improvements so they can repeat.
It has more to do with the impact a single star can make combined with a best of 7 series instead of one and done.
No, you waited a couple hours, Ln.Hey, I didn't until after the le, did I?
And I don't know what you're panicked about. If you'd a had Perkins for the last two games I'd be kicked off by The Princess by now and you'd be fat & happy.
Heal Perkins.
Rondo's evolvement is just beginning. His upside is infinite. He's still learning. You want to trade him? Pick anybody not named Kobe and you can have him. That includes Gasol.
IDK Cully to get a 3-peat we make a minor change.
For REPEATING having a key guy even a sub that has yet to taste that champagne ...is IMPORTANT.
I also think if Farmr leaves we need a PG ...
Luke may retire as well...
Bring back Fish, get a young PG for him to mentor
Re-sign shannon Brown play him more and start reducing kobe's minutes in the regular season ..
Cully i love you man... but you must be drunk off the bubbly.
I would NOT trade rondo for Pau!!
dude cant hit FT's ...
his jumper sucks ass ...
Now dont get me wrong that hurt him against us and maybe he improves he is STILL young ...
But he is a HORRIBLE fit in the triangle as the group is put togteher ...
ALso you want a shooter at PG for flor spacing ...teams would crowd the paint and play off Rondo ...
JUST LIKE we just did in THESE finals ...
I would have to use my veto powers ...Cully ...
Bynum for rondo? Probably
agree with Dragic no way we win a series THAT physical without RonRon ...
There's a team in the Great Northwest that will soon put an end to this charade!
Forget it, t, yer white bread.
We're unbeatable now.
The world is our oyster. We're truly at the precipice of something very special in all of sports.
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