KGboss wrote:CeltsfanSinceBirth wrote:KGboss wrote:Then this league is going to get more and more stupid and if you dont happen to be in the spot that some star wants to play in for the next decade then oh well.
Teams like Minnesota will never win a championship at this rate.
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Dude, Minnesota was tampering with D-Lo too. If there is anything these past 2 days has taught us - it is the fact that EVERYONE has been tampering. Even Ainge hinted at it with his "I wish I could tell you guys what I know, but there are many players dying to play for us" statement before the draft last week.
And again - it's not the tampering that is causing players to team up. Its the fact that you can jam 2-3 max contracts under the salary cap that allows for it.
Someone better than me at business and finance can figure it out but I think we all agree whats about to happen in LA and what we've had to deal with with golden state needs to end.
How about a rule that if you make an all NBA first team 2 years in a row you cant team up with more than 1 all NBA player.
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I think there should be a system where you can only have sign one player on a max contract that wasn’t drafted by your team. And it only has to be a max contract at the time the contract was signed. So you wouldn’t get the 08 Celtics or the LBJ Heat, but you would still get the KD Warriors. While it was a weak move by KD, that was also great GM work by Bob Meyers to put his team in that position.
That being said, KD and Kyrie both took less than the max to sign with Brooklyn. That’s a potential loophole that may need to be figured out. Or, if guys are willing to take that much of a pay cut, let them play wherever they want. As much as it sucks for small market teams, teams like the Lakers doing well is good for the NBA from a financial and marketing perspective. It may not be fair, but life’s not fair