nedleeds wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:stuporman wrote:I don't think I have seen a summer where this many 'stars' with 3 and 4 years left on contracts are being moved. It's unusual for sure.
It’s the new trend. Get your money and
then request a trade.
Next CBA will be a bloodbath. I'm not even putting all the blame on either side, actually they deserve each other for everything.
Take the Durant example, has 4 years left on a deal where the ink was barely dry.
Well, the Nets knew and know he's a front running diva that signed there to try to win a ring with another diva -- Kyrie. Once the Harden situation exploded in their faces (another diva, only at least KD tries on the court) they should have traded all these clowns.
Durant can request a trade and put it out there that he did. But what's his leverage? He can essentially threaten to play badly, or not try and it's very hard to no pay a player if they are showing up and playing. But like A.D. and Harden it can get bad quickly. His real leverage is the CBA itself, which makes NBA contracts guaranteed (almost bullet proof 100%, guys like Gilbert Arenas and Larry Sanders both got paid, 1 in jail and 1 who told them straight up he hated basketball and wanted to smoke weed and play Xbox all day). It's the only pro sports league with guaranteed deals AND a salary cap. In the NFL there's a cap, but you can cut a player at almost any time (signing bonuses are pro-rated), in baseball there's no cap and deals are guaranteed.
Somehow the owners have **** themselves by having the worst situation. Even if they prove KD isn't trying and withhold game checks it doesn't actually help them win or sign players because he's eating 35% of their cap.
At this point, assuming the player actually has positive value, the team pretty much has to trade them, but loses quite a bit of leverage because if KD ends up in New Orleans he can just pull the same act and leave them screwed trying to make up for what they gave up.
Anyway, all this is to say it's not sustainable for team building. As players get more and more post millennial we'll see this more as these bitchmade social media starved infants don't get everything they want handed to them. Next CBA is going to be a total warzone and I don't expect the owners to get **** so hard. They're asking players to fulfill their contracts and come to work, they'll go to ground with numerous examples of the players doing the opposite. We got the amnesty clause with the last big CBA, which addressed having a max cat get injured severely and having that sink your franchise by having 30% of your cap devoted to nothing. I see something similar but to address this new problem directly.
