lstern wrote:Pickled Prunes wrote:lstern wrote:
KG was my favourite player growing up, I totally remember the stuff that you're referencing.
I think that the needs to remove the individual player maximum salary rules. No way should LBJ & AD or Kawhi & PG be on the same teams. Harden and Westbrook I have no issue with, since they were both drafted together and it's almost like revisionist history playing itself out, minus KD.
MIN didn't want to give KAT what they did but they had no choice. I mean, look at what they gave Wiggins just to be a number 2. John Collins wants "Max$" and probably deserves it but without a max salary he might get 15% because Trae's extension is coming up. ATL would have to chose and Collins would likely be the odd man out.
And as much as I was pulling for Cassell and Spree, MIN never did anything with all their eggs in KG's basket. Can you spell L-O-T-T-E-R-Y!
It would be easy enough to squash superteams by only allowing one max player and one super-max player per team. Better yet, if you want to limit the restrictions on individual contracts, make it so a team's top three salaries can not exceed 75% of the cap. That could be split as the team likes:
25/25/25
35/25/15
55/10/10
etc.
All that said, why are we worried about max players being underpaid? They make more than enough money on the court, and sometimes even more off the court. We should be fighting for our schools not for Lillard to get paid more.
I disagree. Any time that you place a theoretical ceiling on an individual's salary, you are restricting someone being compensated for all that they do. For example:
2015-16 LBJ attracted a lot of attention. He improved the play of the people around him and that would be widely considered as a very valuable trait. If one team is willing to allocate 50% of their cap towards him, there would only 50% left over for the 14 remaining players. That is the goal, to not place a glass ceiling on production value and allow it to equal out in terms of intra-team parity.
If you don't put a ceiling on an individual's salary, you are restricting their teammates from being compensated for all that they do. Wesley Mathews is clearly worth more than $2.5M but teams are capped at the top and veteran roll players often resort to signing minimum deals because that is all that's left. B elivating the upper-crust of the NBA you would be crushing the middle class. As it stands CLE's payroll was 10% higher than the 2nd highest payroll in the league in 2016.
And Lebron is great... but he does not make his teammates better. Just about every teammate he's ever had has had down years while playing with Lebron. They are there to make him better, not the other way around.
