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next season might be the last season for the:
hornets
kings
bobcats
twolves
clippers
hawks
cavs
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/1...-huge-pay-cuts
In another staggering development, CBSSports.com learned that salaries may not be the only area cut as the NBA tries to gets its financial books up to speed with the explosion in popularity the league will experience this season. A person with knowledge of the owners' discussions said the league "will continue to be open to contraction" as a possible mechanism for restoring the league to profitability.
next season might be the last season for the:
hornets
kings
bobcats
twolves
clippers
hawks
cavs
I'm not buying it. You think those owners are just going to bend over for the rest of the league? Stern is posturing and thats it.
Get ready for a work stoppage. If this is the line the NBA is going to take then its inevitable.
I thought the Pacers were in trouble as well.
this cant be right
That being said it would be BAD ass to cut the dead weight from the league and make the talent pool for the remaining teams better.
Oh I don't know, there are those guys who decided way back when the ABA was going to merge with the NBA that they didn't want to be bought out. Here it is. The Silna Brothers:
n the summer of 1976, with the ABA at the point of financial collapse after nine years, the six surviving franchises (the Virginia Squires went bankrupt immediately after the final season) began negotiating a merger with the NBA. But the senior circuit decided to accept only four teams from the rival league: the Nets (the last ABA champion), Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs.
The NBA placated John Y. Brown, owner of the Kentucky Colonels, by giving him a $3.3 million settlement in exchange for shutting his team down. (Brown later used much of that money to buy the Buffalo Braves of the NBA.) But the owners of the Spirits, the brothers Ozzie and Dan Silna, struck a prescient deal to acquire future television money from the teams that joined the NBA, a one-seventh share from each franchise, in perpetuity. With network TV deals becoming more and more lucrative, the deal has made the Silnas wealthy, earning them $186 million as of 2008, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
(The NBA nearly succeeded in buying out the Silnas in 1982 by offering $5 million over eight years, but negotiations stalled when the siblings demanded $8 million over five.) The current TV deal gives the Silnas $14.57 million a season; on June 27, 2007, it was extended for another eight years, ensuring another $100 million-plus windfall for the former Spirits owners.
That right there is giving the NBA the middle finger.
http://www.indianaeconomicdigest.net...rticleID=45941
This article talks about how the Pacers are tired of paying those guys.
Manny is right, but, it would be such a blessing. You got 30 teams chasing talent enough for perhaps half that amount.
Also wants to cut all current player contracts by 1/3. Same link as above.
But what might have been low key for owners was a horror show for players. In short, as soon as the Year of the Big Three is over, Stern will look to shave players' salaries by one-third in a new CBA.
The Clippers need to gtfo already. They've done jack- and are an open-sore on the of the NBA
I agree. Put so eloquently too.
Stern is really doing his best to tear the NBA down bit by bit. He took over during the NBA's golden age when it was flourishing, and it's gone downhill ever since.
The Clippers are actually profitable. Don't really know the numbers on the rest but the Lakers' farm team might be in trouble.
Can't tell if this is a troll but his globalization of the sport and made it the clear cut #2 in America/World.
20 teams max, not there's not enough talent for 30.
that . No city deserves to lose its team. If anything move the Clips to a city that will give a about them.
Baseball is still ahead of the NBA in this country.
Not to hear baseball owners tell (read: lie) about it.
Of course, the owners of the Pirates and Marlins both got exposed as fraudsters by claiming losses when both clubs were profitable...
Hmmmm... does this sound familiar at all?
I'm not buying the NBA's line about "$350-$400M in losses" per annum story. Doesn't even come close to passing the sniff test.
Funny joke.
so the heat get the 3 superstars signed
then the new cba stern wants is to cut pay by 1/3 so no team can compete with the heat
, ducks makes a great point.
The franchises that need to go are the Grizz, TWolves, and Raptors.
The league would not miss any of those teams one iota.
If you want an even number, then add the Hornets to the list. Chris Paul will be gone after this year anyway, and George Shinn is a disgrace.
I disagree about the T-Wolves tbh. Raptors, Grizzlies, Clippers, and Nets can all go and nobody would notice.
there is no way the warriors get contracted, one of the oldest franchise in one of the biggest market( bay area) .
Well not really. If the owners get their way -- shorter contracts/non-guaranteed money means they can rebuild quite a bit faster and more efficiently.
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