snaquille oatmeal wrote:And so the free agent one year and done signing era begins.
Knciks are at the forefront of this tendency. They started 2 seasons ago.
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snaquille oatmeal wrote:And so the free agent one year and done signing era begins.
vxmike wrote:BoogieTime wrote:VanWest82 wrote:
They don't have a choice. Ignoring this virus doesn't make it go away - it just makes it spread faster and do more damage, and it's already been proven out in many places that you can't have a fully functional economy, at least in the way it existed pre-pandemic, with covid cases rising out of control. People get freaked out and stop going out and spending money. As long as large swaths of the public are getting extremely sick and dying that'll be the case.
How do Sweden, Belarus and the non locked down countries look ?
Even if it was doing untold damage, societies cant afford it
You mean we can’t continue to print our way out of this crisis? /s
karkinos wrote:love how realgm posters speak with such confidence on what it means to be a billionaire and how there is like "no risk" in owning a team
atlanta hawks, buffalo bills, carolina panthers, and houston rockets were all bought and sold in the past 5 years
if it were easy money, they never would have been sold.
Jkam31 wrote:Ratings don’t matter though
snaquille oatmeal wrote:And so the free agent one year and done signing era begins.
karkinos wrote:love how realgm posters speak with such confidence on what it means to be a billionaire and how there is like "no risk" in owning a team
atlanta hawks, buffalo bills, carolina panthers, and houston rockets were all bought and sold in the past 5 years
if it were easy money, they never would have been sold.
Richard4444 wrote:ThunderBolt wrote:bisme37 wrote:I've seen many fans say they don't care about ratings and the financial health of the league. And they don't care if players are making less because they make so much anyway.
But I'm wondering how fans will feel when their team suddenly has no money for free agents and starts making roster moves simply to cut costs. That doesn't sound super awesome to me.
Making moves to cut costs how? Trading to other teams that don't have cap space? Its going to impact everyone so even bad teams that beforehand might have been willing to back and bad contract won't do so. I could be wrong but it seems like it makes sense that most teams, good or bad, will simply be stuck for a while.
1) A broken team can salary dump players to cap spaced teams like Atlanta, Knicks, and Detroit giving away assets if needed.
2) A broken team can refuse to re-sign good players, wave no guaranteed deals, not picking team options, sign and trade RFA players for cheap, or not matching his offer sheets.
3) A broken team can make a trade with a capped out team receiving only 80% of the salary back.
4) A broken team can trade their pick for an upcoming worse pick in a future draft to save some money. Or trading down for cheap.
8) A broke team can trade picks for cash consideration up to 5,5M.
6) A broken team can select a euro stash under contract overseas to save money this season.
7) A broken team can opt to only sign 13 players (less than the 15 limit).
8) A broken team can refuse to pay 120% of the rookie scale (what is far from normal) or sign a 2 way deal with early second-rounders. I don't know if the select player has a say about that but I know it's not the best way to start a relationship. Maybe teams would talk to the players beforehand about that if it would be a problem, making the club select a worse player who is ok with that to avoid the headache.
bisme37 wrote:If there were magnets in basketballs so strong they changed the path of the ball as it flew through the air, wouldn't the ball then stick magnetically to the rim when it got there?
Duke4life831 wrote:karkinos wrote:love how realgm posters speak with such confidence on what it means to be a billionaire and how there is like "no risk" in owning a team
atlanta hawks, buffalo bills, carolina panthers, and houston rockets were all bought and sold in the past 5 years
if it were easy money, they never would have been sold.
Yup I mean there is always risk in investing money. For example the Nets were just purchased for 2.3 billion dollars in 2019. You think the group that made that purchase arent biting their nails right now. If news breaks that there wont be any fans next year, or even worse the TV ratings dont turn around before the next TV deal. The valuation of that franchise (all the franchises) will have taken a big hit.
Dont get me wrong, Im not saying to have sympathy for these mega rich people. But financially speaking, ya there is billions on the line and that is a major risk.
karkinos wrote:love how realgm posters speak with such confidence on what it means to be a billionaire and how there is like "no risk" in owning a team
atlanta hawks, buffalo bills, carolina panthers, and houston rockets were all bought and sold in the past 5 years
if it were easy money, they never would have been sold.
jimmy keys wrote:Duke4life831 wrote:karkinos wrote:love how realgm posters speak with such confidence on what it means to be a billionaire and how there is like "no risk" in owning a team
atlanta hawks, buffalo bills, carolina panthers, and houston rockets were all bought and sold in the past 5 years
if it were easy money, they never would have been sold.
Yup I mean there is always risk in investing money. For example the Nets were just purchased for 2.3 billion dollars in 2019. You think the group that made that purchase arent biting their nails right now. If news breaks that there wont be any fans next year, or even worse the TV ratings dont turn around before the next TV deal. The valuation of that franchise (all the franchises) will have taken a big hit.
Dont get me wrong, Im not saying to have sympathy for these mega rich people. But financially speaking, ya there is billions on the line and that is a major risk.
What do you think he'd get for them if they Rockets were for sale again in the next 36 months?
xdrta+ wrote:I'd say a better take would be that Windhorst has no idea what's about to happen.
donnieme wrote:I wonder if all these players opting out of their present contracts are going to regret the decision to test their value in a market they should have known was uncertain. Some agents are about to get fired
Lalouie wrote:xdrta+ wrote:I'd say a better take would be that Windhorst has no idea what's about to happen.
no,,,but he's basing it on things as they are now
xdrta+ wrote:Lalouie wrote:xdrta+ wrote:I'd say a better take would be that Windhorst has no idea what's about to happen.
no,,,but he's basing it on things as they are now
The best guess from most sources is that the cap and tax lines will be frozen at about the level they were last year. There's not going to be this $20M drop that Windhorst talks about.
JordansBulls wrote:The Warriors are basically a good college team until they meet a team with bigs in the NBA.
PaulieWal wrote:xdrta+ wrote:Lalouie wrote:
no,,,but he's basing it on things as they are now
The best guess from most sources is that the cap and tax lines will be frozen at about the level they were last year. There's not going to be this $20M drop that Windhorst talks about.
They are being frozen because the owners are going to artificially hold the cap for next season. I mean we lost a bunch of RS games, when we came back there were no fans for the RS or the PS games, and you don't think that's going to be have a significant impact on the revenue? The cap is directly related to the revenue and the NBA has taken a substantial revenue hit this season
Jkam31 wrote:Ratings don’t matter though
karkinos wrote:love how realgm posters speak with such confidence on what it means to be a billionaire and how there is like "no risk" in owning a team
atlanta hawks, buffalo bills, carolina panthers, and houston rockets were all bought and sold in the past 5 years
if it were easy money, they never would have been sold.