Knicker23 wrote:Interesting idea, but the commissioner would penalize them in a heartbeat... On the surface it seems like you'd be able to say ''hey what can they do, we hired Lala at Fuse cause she's skilled and qualified for the job' .. but paying her millions as a relative to melo, it may as well erase the whole salary cap idea from the nba... any team would be able to find a brother sister mother cousin to pay millions to as a relative to the star player they want.... sign DW for 1 mill and pay his brother 50 mill to be a columnist on newsday haha
That's the thing, what if they paid her relative to market value? So let's say that type of TV personality makes $1-$2 million per year and they paid her that. Not an exorbitant, $20 million per year or something. Is it really going around the rules? If she wasn't Melo's wife, no one would bat an eye. Obviously, there is no paper work or anything. Sure it looks bad on the surface, like the whole Wade/Riley/Miami team up thing, but it isn't necessarily against the rules. It isn't like they are taking an accountant and giving them a TV show.
I wonder, also, how things like the Mike D'Antoni show factor into this. Granted, money for coaches isn't as tightly controlled as it for players but players do appear on the show. Mainly the rookies, obviously, they get paid. How does that get regulated? Is that considered under the table money? Is it part of the contract that they have to appear on TV for X amount of hours? -Jitpal
