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For Jazz, Good May Come From Lockout
Posted by: Danny Hansen on October 11th, 2011
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.
You are probably wondering if you read the title of this blog correctly. Good. Lockout. Those two words don’t belong in the same sentence. And I agree. There are far more negatives associated with a lockout than there are positives. However, looking at it purely as a Jazz fan, the Jazz may be helped by this lockout. Now, let me clarify that waiting for the good in this process will take an extreme amount of patience. I mean, can you live without Jazz basketball for a season? That may be what it takes. Let me explain. Last night, after negotiations again fell apart, Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver had this to say to the media,
“Our view is that the current system is broken in that 30 teams are not in a position to compete for championships,” deputy commissioner Adam Silver said. “And that while we understand their position, we understand change is difficult, it makes no sense for us to operate under the current model where taxpayers — especially those taxpayers who are willing to spend $10 [million], $20 [million] and often even more money above the average team in this league — have a huge advantage over the other teams.”
He is right. Teams that are able to spend more, win more. It is an unfortunate fact in the NBA. The losers in this are small market teams. They don’t have the massive TV contracts or outrageous ticket prices or amazing corporate sponsors, like the Lakers or Knicks have, to be able pay player salaries. You never hear of those big market teams trading a player in a salary dump to stay viable. The Jazz had to give away Eric Maynor, just to be able to dump Matt Harpring’s contract. It is a system that benefits the rich and keeps down the not-so-rich.
Now let’s talk about a hard cap. This is what the owners are going for. Reports may say that they conceded this, but they haven’t. They just keep reintroducing it in different forms. It is simple enough to say that if the league gets their hard caps, small market teams will win. It will keep the teams with deep pockets, such as Dallas, Lakers, Celtics, the last few NBA champions, from being basically to get any player that they can regardless of price. For as good as the Jazz have been the last 25 years, how many championships do they have to show for it? Zero. With increased parity, their wins won’t depend upon their market, but on basketball.
Another hot-button issue during this lockout is the mid-level exception. Let’s see if we can remember the last time the Jazz used their entire mid-level exception on a new addition. Part of it was used on Raja Bell last year, but only about half of it. You have to go way back to the initial signing of Matt Harpring in 2002. The Jazz just can’t add that much money as an exception to team payroll. That is why they couldn’t sign Al Harrington a year ago, or Morris Peterson a few years ago (thankfully). Whereas, teams like the Lakers can add a quality player like Ron Artest with the mid-level exception, and have championship to show for it.
I hope you can see where I am getting with this. So while it is tough to miss games, if the lockout can produce a major change in the system to benefit small market teams in the long run, it may be worth it, no matter how painful it is.
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I agree. I hope the owners firm up their position on a hard cap. A league where 30 teams have a real chance at winning is going to be much stronger over the long run than what we’ve had over the past 20 years: 6-8 large-market contenders and 2-4 small market teams that struck it rich in the draft lottery.
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If we do indeed end up with a CBA which takes away most of the big money teams, it will be a great day for the NBA, making the entire league more competitive, top to bottom.
I just hope the owners don’t cave in, like they did in 1999, but stick to their guns.
I hope the terms of the CBA are more important than the revenue split.
If the next CBA is truly “fixed”, most of this overspending will take care of itself.
I hate to miss a season, but if that’s what it takes, I can wait.
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Is there any way of closing or bankruting (is that a wor lol)the league? I really don’t know the history of why the current sytem can’t be closed and new contracts in a new league be created? Personally I would be in favor of doing that rather than deal with dirt bags like Derek Fisher. You know whats funny is if someone as dumb as McGee from the wizards see’s what a bunch of idiots the union is being and walks out, well that doesn’t say much for those guys who stayed to show the greedy scum that they are. There should never be a team in the league that loses money whil players get paid. Players should have to participate in losses, and also have an opportunity to participate in the profits when they do well. Thats a fair system, but the players aren’t assuming the risk the owners are and they need to be put in their place. I could live with never watching another game played by the high price players that complain or are to hollywood to understand what it’s like to earn an honest living. I mean common, avg player making over $4mill right now and going up to 7.2 mill in 7 years thats just crazy. Close the NBA and recruit players that are now unemployed with the rest of this country at half the price. It’s time us fans stop having to pay $200 to go enjoy a game anyway. Just like the government needing to stop spending tax payers money, and reduce taxes, we need players to stop wasting our ticket sales on their 7 th home and 7th ferrari. Most of them will be broke in the future anyway… You just can’t fix stupid so you might as well have them go broke on half the money we would pay them in the new league. I would say to players like Derek Fisher “we don’t want you in our new league” and go give people a chance that goes from nobady to somebody like a Wes Mathews.
Oh and I also saw Jeremy Evans standing with the Union… I like…liked that kid until I saw him there. Thats CRAP! Jeremy you don’t go associating with those groups of greedy punks, you stay being the guy we all like. You just keep doing what you have been and you;ll be just fine, but don’t get Utah turning against you, and believe me if they all know you are supporting Derek Fisher and the Union you’ll be standing on thin ice at best.
thoughts on starting a new league or ways to pull it off?
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