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Posted by: L.K.Anderson on June 6th, 2011
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.The old CBA has but a few weeks to live. What changes would you like to see? Mine would be one of the guarentee contracts. Remember the problems that Steph Marbury caused the Knicks a couple of years ago? He was told to stay away from the team because of the problems he caused. They finally bought out his contract for Millions and after waviers he was free to sign with another team. First of all if this happened to any of us on our job we would be fired and unemployed. Second he gets to sign with another team for more money. They already paid him for the balance of his contract. And which teams get to sign him? It is his choice and probably the five best teams that year. Does anyone in their right mind think this is fair? NBA needs to have like the MLB has with arbitration. When a player is offered a new contract and he feels he should be paid more it goes to arbitration. This jury like group looks at everthing from stats to whatever and rules for the team or the player. Marbury was a bad boy. Knicks should have won the arbitration and had him bought out at minimal costs. And instead of resigning right away his contract was bought out for two years. He was paid so after the two years is up he gets to sign with another team as a free agent. Now the Pistons want to get rid of Hamilton because he does not fit anymore. His buyout is 25Million. They could eat that salary and he would be free to sign with another club. Again the buyout is for two years and he has been paid. He would have to sit out for two years before signing with another team as a free agent. The new CBA is looking at what is called a Amnesty clause that would allow a buyout but not count aganst the cap or something like that. So my idea would be to change this rule of the guarentee contract like that of Marbury. What rule would you like to see changed? By the way the grammar police ar welcome. Thanks
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a hard cap so each team cant even go over it, so you cant stack the rosters and like, make 5 Miami’s. without that the Jazz and all the other small market teams would just eat it. And what you said. It sounded good.
I heard that the owners want the % guaranteed to go down year by year. For example if Matt Harpring signed a 5 year deal and in his second year he moved to Atlanta the first year was 100% guaranteed, 2nd 80%, 3rd 60%, 4th 40%, 5th 20%. Now I don’t know if those are the amounts… but you get the idea. Sounds like a fair way to make sure the player has some income if his career is cut short by an injury, and yet the team isn’t holding the bag for the FULL amount for the entire 5 yrs.
they also need lower salaries, cuz honestly what is kobe doing with his $200 mil?????
The NFL lockout is very unfortunate and hopefully will be cleared up soon. On the other hand, I’m afraid the NBA lockout will be a necessary evil. So much is wrong with this league in comparison to most of the other major sports. They ought to try and model it after the NFL because the NFL is probably the league with the levelest playing field. The way the NBA is headed now, we would soon have 3-4 Harlam Globetrotters and 26 Washington Generals.
To attempt to answer your question, a hard cap and franchise tags would be a solid step in the right direction
What I want changed is there to be no Lockout…. Why should the fans pay, because guys who are earning Multimillions of dollars cannot come to a stupid agreement. If the lockout lasts too long, I say we look to another sport for a while. Maybe lockout our TV’s. They will play and you can watch the games later or catch the scores on TV. Hurt them in the pocket books if they hurt our entertainment…
It’s going to be really difficult because the players will not only have to give up a lot of money but also freedom in order for the league to improve. It’s easy for fans to say “hard cap & franchise tag” but no union would just bend over for that without a fight.
Furthermore the big market teams will resist more revenue sharing, which is also probably necessary. If the owners can’t agree amongst themselves it’s pretty far fetched that they can get it together to push the previously mentioned issues.
Could be a long, ugly process.
If the owners are set in their ways about scaling back guaranteed money this will be a long lockout that will hurt the NBA for years to come. They may be able to lower salaries but I promise you these players will come out of this agreement with their guaranteed money.
Hard cap needs to be priority number 1, no other measure, nothing, will ensure the league has something resembling parity.
I don’t like franchise tagging, there have been many forms of it discussed but it seems like another way small market teams can get saddled with lengthy crippling contract.
Anyway, the longer the lockout the better for the owners. The only way the NBPA will bend is when the paychecks stop coming.
Expect a lengthy lockout.
I think also until there is a new CBA starting July 1 players cannot use team arena’s (ESA) and workout(ZIONS) buildings to use at all. If they organize themselves to play a pickup game at a college or city rec center they cannot wear clothing from the team or NBA in general. UFA, and RFA cannot work out or talk about their upcomming contracts. UFA can go to Euro or spanish league and sign there. Another question if anyone knows the new draft choices do they sign between June 23-30 or will the new CBA be their rule?
Exactly Shockwave, it’s obvious that there is going to be a fight. There is a lot they will have to change and/or agree upon so it will probably take a long time… but that long time will be necessary to improve the NBA, because so much about it needs to be improved