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Post by Crimson on Jul 5, 2016 19:05:03 GMT -5
Another superstar-filled uber team. And apparently, it's a 2-year deal, with the 2nd year being an opt-out. Why not just stay in OKC for one more year? Curry's gonna get paid next year, so they may not have had the money to sign Durant at that point. I still don't quite get the NBA's salary cap so I might be off on that. The Salary Cap will be jumping up another ~13 million next summer, so theoretically they could make it work with both Curry and Durant having max contracts at the same time. Especially since Iguodala would most likely be willing to take the paycut. Like honestly, unless there's a chemistry issue, the team won't be feeling any real constraint until Green and Klay become free agents, and that's not for another 3 years.
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Post by andrew8798 on Jul 5, 2016 19:11:46 GMT -5
The Barnes deal probably would have took most of their cap
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jul 5, 2016 23:41:50 GMT -5
Another superstar-filled uber team. And apparently, it's a 2-year deal, with the 2nd year being an opt-out. Why not just stay in OKC for one more year? Yeah, it's so annoying. Basically 25 teams are completely irrelevant. That's probably being kind too lol. Then again, it kind of always has felt like most NBA teams are irrelevant. News like this is a healthy reminder why I guess. The NBA is at it's most popular when there's 4-6 title contenders and a pack of middling teams. Look at the 90's for proof.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 5, 2016 23:56:46 GMT -5
Yeah, it's so annoying. Basically 25 teams are completely irrelevant. That's probably being kind too lol. Then again, it kind of always has felt like most NBA teams are irrelevant. News like this is a healthy reminder why I guess. The NBA is at it's most popular when there's 4-6 title contenders and a pack of middling teams. Look at the 90's for proof. Heck, the only time there was parity in the NBA was the 70s, and that was when the NBA's ratings, attendance, and merchandise sales were at their absolute worst. It was so bad, it's not wrong at all to say that Magic and Bird saved the NBA from going under.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jul 6, 2016 0:10:18 GMT -5
The NBA is at it's most popular when there's 4-6 title contenders and a pack of middling teams. Look at the 90's for proof. Heck, the only time there was parity in the NBA was the 70s, and that was when the NBA's ratings, attendance, and merchandise sales were at their absolute worst. It was so bad, it's not wrong at all to say that Magic and Bird saved the NBA from going under. The public-at-large prefers superstars to an actual competition. What an idea.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jul 6, 2016 22:20:35 GMT -5
Heck, the only time there was parity in the NBA was the 70s, and that was when the NBA's ratings, attendance, and merchandise sales were at their absolute worst. It was so bad, it's not wrong at all to say that Magic and Bird saved the NBA from going under. The public-at-large prefers superstars to an actual competition. What an idea. It's a tough balancing act: the national audience definitely wants superstars, so that brings lots of national ratings and what have you, but unless you've got a great revenue sharing system it's not going to be easy to sustain 30+ teams in leagues where most of them almost never compete. Plus, it's tough to compare the conditions of leagues 20-30 years ago to the modern landscape/money situation, as there's a different number of teams, more cable penetration and regularly televised games, all that jazz. Then again, the NBA is also in a unique situation compared to the other main leagues given how a single great player can take a below mediocre team and make it a contender, so I guess it does kind of stand alone in that regard and it becomes tough to analyze vis a vis the other leagues. Anyway, on this topic, I always get in a bit of a rut. On the one hand, I really do endorse and support players having the right to play wherever the hell they want to. On the other hand, from a pure entertainment point of view, it's more exciting to see superstars opposing one another than banding together and basically saying "gonna go win a ring real quick, LOL", which is kind of what this contract makes it feel like.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Jul 7, 2016 11:57:18 GMT -5
So has there been any jersey burning in OKC like there was in Cleveland after "The Decision"? Because that I would find funny. OKC fans complaining about disloyalty and betrayal considering how they got an NBA franchise in the first place.
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