I was going to make this thread on the Knicks board but figured I'd get much more informed responses here, possibly from posters like Sham, Larrycoon, FGump, and Dunkenstein (sp?)... But:
How would you realistically improve the NBA salary cap / salary structure?
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Six ideas:
1) Do away with the MLE and BAE. Each team over the cap gets a $4M exception and a $2M exception each year. These can be for up to three years with no increases. If a team wants they can combine these two exceptions any way they want as long as no player gets more than $4M. The Early-Bird Exception will be the same as the $4M exception.
2) You can sign FAs (your own or another team's) to a contract of no more than four years. Extensions are also limited to four years including any years remaining on the original contract.
3) Maximum raises for all players are equal to the annual increase of the salary cap plus 2% with a max of 5%. This holds true for rookie scale contracts as well. So if a player has a $1M contract in year one and the salary cap goes up 2%, then the player will get a salary of 1.04M in year two. He will find his actual salary for the year on the day the new salary cap is announced in July. What's happening now is that raises are way outstripping increases in the salary cap so that teams end up with a few overpriced contracts and a bunch of minimum contracts.
4) A maximum salary can never be more than 30% of the salary cap. The only raises to a maximum salary will be equal to the annual percentage increase of the salary cap.
5) The base luxury tax percentage will drop from 61% of BRI to 59% over a four year period.
6) Besides having to pay luxury tax, teams over the tax threshold get neither luxury nor escrow tax distributions. Let's disincentivize going over the threshold even more. All the undistributed tax money will go to assist low revenue teams under the league's Revenue Assistance Plan which will be increased in size from its current $30M annually.
1) Do away with the MLE and BAE. Each team over the cap gets a $4M exception and a $2M exception each year. These can be for up to three years with no increases. If a team wants they can combine these two exceptions any way they want as long as no player gets more than $4M. The Early-Bird Exception will be the same as the $4M exception.
2) You can sign FAs (your own or another team's) to a contract of no more than four years. Extensions are also limited to four years including any years remaining on the original contract.
3) Maximum raises for all players are equal to the annual increase of the salary cap plus 2% with a max of 5%. This holds true for rookie scale contracts as well. So if a player has a $1M contract in year one and the salary cap goes up 2%, then the player will get a salary of 1.04M in year two. He will find his actual salary for the year on the day the new salary cap is announced in July. What's happening now is that raises are way outstripping increases in the salary cap so that teams end up with a few overpriced contracts and a bunch of minimum contracts.
4) A maximum salary can never be more than 30% of the salary cap. The only raises to a maximum salary will be equal to the annual percentage increase of the salary cap.
5) The base luxury tax percentage will drop from 61% of BRI to 59% over a four year period.
6) Besides having to pay luxury tax, teams over the tax threshold get neither luxury nor escrow tax distributions. Let's disincentivize going over the threshold even more. All the undistributed tax money will go to assist low revenue teams under the league's Revenue Assistance Plan which will be increased in size from its current $30M annually.
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I know one thing that I would like to see changed, and I might be alone with this thought process, but I would like to see the rookie pay scale lower than the vet minimum. Why? Because teams would start using the draft for its intended purpose again. For example, my favorite team the Denver Nuggets usually deals their picks and fills out their roster with guys who only command the vet minimum. I'd like to see them use the draft to build their bench with instead of all of the one year contracts they pay to journeymen. At least make it closer to being equal to the vet minimum.
Something else I dislike is how teams draft Euro's and hold the rights to the drafted player, but the team never has any intention of ever bringing them on board. Denver has two players in this situation that they hold the rights to (Sani Becirovic and Axel Hervelle), and I don't see either one of them ever suiting up in a Denver Nuggets uniform.
I also don't like the current trend where non playoff teams buy out a contract from a player, and then the player goes and signs for peanuts with a contender for a title run. I think that some sort of penalty should be applied for doing this.
Something else I dislike is how teams draft Euro's and hold the rights to the drafted player, but the team never has any intention of ever bringing them on board. Denver has two players in this situation that they hold the rights to (Sani Becirovic and Axel Hervelle), and I don't see either one of them ever suiting up in a Denver Nuggets uniform.
I also don't like the current trend where non playoff teams buy out a contract from a player, and then the player goes and signs for peanuts with a contender for a title run. I think that some sort of penalty should be applied for doing this.
