Chris-L
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Hey, there's that guy.
To Hell With it!
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Hey, there's that guy.
InGameStrategy
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My understanding is that revenue sharing has been discussed. I don't know what they agreed to.
https://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7147909/nba-lockout-owners-discussing-revenue-sharing-sources-say
Your argument would carry (more) weight if the NBA average salaries were anywhere near those of the MLB and NFL.
No, I'm a fan who believes that (1) a union who still ends up with average salaries far above that of any other major sport and (2) that the real sticking points heavily affect the superstars (and their agents) who feared that the existing deal would actually be approved if it had been put to a vote, so the whiny elites whispering in D-Fish's ear stopped that very unionesque step from happening.
In terms of your self-assessment of your financial acumen, I can't say I disagree with you. However, I invite you to research the concepts of ROI from both an operational and investment capital ("exit value") standpoint.
The problem is that the owners' profitability was not satisfactory, and the players' profitability (average salary) was exorbitant on both a relative basis and an absolute basis. Just like a union protects employees from getting hosed, an agreement among partner-owners protects the owners. And "hosed" does not equal a $5 million average salary.
From a financial standpoint, I believe accountants more than the Sporting News.
But as I have stated, it is not important whether the NBA made money or lost money. If the NBA were swimming in profits and still wanted to bring down the player take in line with other leagues and limit player hijacking of the league, that's plenty understandable.
Fitting that your opinion is from something that is six weeks old.
And the owners gave in all the way through the 10-year term, ratcheting up salaries to ridiculous levels. Now they want protection from that so that agents and players can't demand it. The proposal with 25% of payroll being placed as maximum payout to a superstar (vs. the 30% that agents--I mean the players--demand) is more than fair--perhaps still too excessive. The other 12 or 13 on the roster shouldn't have to share the other 70% or 75%. If Joe player were more educated, then they'd be demanding an audience from their own (dissolved) union. Now that the union is semi-dissolved, the elites and agents probably have even more power.
It's a free country. The NBA players don't have to sign it. They can fight for contracts overseas for 1/3 to 1/2 the amount. They can try to start their own league. And the owners can rebuild it from scratch without having to deal with whiny superstars and their agents demanding a whopping 30% of payroll for their star player.
This is all about the agents and the elites taking the owners hostage, and the journeymen not speaking up enough to get a deal done, partly because their representatives did not speak to them. The majority of the NBA is non-superstars for whom having more flexibility to go into the big cities might be nice but not nearly as beneficial to their careers as getting ont he court for a meager few million for a few years.
Even if it's in Charlotte.
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Good question. Pics?
I'd hardly call Forbes a "sporting news" source.... and oh damn! The owners sure "stuck it out" to keep their company going. They sure have given up so much.
If something would have changed in six weeks, I'd be glad to review. The only differences now, is a federal mediator came in and couldn't get anything done, owners gave an ultimatum rather than further negotiations, players called their bluff and de-certified, forcing the owners back to the table with new offers. Which is where we are now. SHOULD my opinion have changed over the last six weeks?
If something would have changed in six weeks, I'd be glad to review. The only differences now, is a federal mediator came in and couldn't get anything done, owners gave an ultimatum rather than further negotiations, players called their bluff and de-certified, forcing the owners back to the table with new offers. Which is where we are now. SHOULD my opinion have changed over the last six weeks?
Anyone who sides with the players, who are making more money in one year than most of us will make in our entires lives, who complain when there are people without homes, jobs, and health insurance, and who refuse to take a "cut" in the face of economic hard times that is leading to more people without jobs and other necessities, needs to reevaluate their role models and priorities.
GVC
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The players have already agreed to take a cut of more than 10% in their salaries. Anyone who sides with billionaires operating in a cartel, who frequently receive handouts from local and state governments, and have been completely unwilling to suffer ANY losses during the worst economic downturn since the depression (instead demanding that their employees subsidize any and all risk they could possibly bare) needs to consider just how brainwashed they are.
InGameStrategy
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If you are referring to this Forbes article, then it doesn't lend much credence to your feeble claim about profitability. This article underscores the string of losses and claims that revenue sharing is the only way to profitability. [Or to bring the players' salaries in line with other leagues, at least BRI-wise.]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sports...show-nba-lost-over-1-5b-over-last-five-years/
If you're referring to the following article, then it's true that the NBA has a positive operating income, which does not include interest or taxes, which means that the NBA could easily not be profitable. At best, it is currently only mildly profitable, and they have seen their operating margin decline. These negotiations have not helped the top line (revenue).
https://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytim...foul-on-n-b-a-s-claims-of-financial-distress/
But again, this is not relevant to whether the players should take the offer or not. The NBA proposal is still far better than any alternative that the players might have, that's not exactly what you call hosing the union.
What has changed is that it has become more clear that the agents and superstars hijacked the negotiations, as evidenced by the fact that the NBA proposal wasn't even put to a vote, some players weren't even contacted about the proposal, and that the NBA proposal still would've given the players the highest average salary among major professional team sports. By far.
InGameStrategy
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Isn't a union kind of like a cartel, too?
. . . which has enabled the players to receive higher salaries than they otherwise would have received . . .
. . . except that they already have suffered losses--a majority of the teams have, in fact. Including our beloved Utah Jazz.
The strength of your lamentation relies in part on whether their salaries were in line with comparable employees in other entities. However, their salaries were far about that, so your claim is bunk. BTW, is it really a subsidy if the players aren't paying anything--and if the remainder of their salaries are intact, above-average and still relatively guaranteed? Sounds more like bringing costs in line, which still doesn't happen even at 50/50.
I'm not siding with the owners. They're already rich beyond anyone's dreams, but I don't think owning an NBA franchise is about them getting richer -- they don't need the money. It's about keeping the franchise above water to support all that goes into it. Once the franchises begin to lose money as they are now, then the whole league is in jeopardy. The players are certainly making enough money and to me, they're acting like a bunch of spoiled brats who can't see beyond their own little world.
What has changed, is the owners bluff was called and they didn't have the cards. So they came back to the table, accepted a 50/50 offer, quit demanding everything under the sun go their way(as noted by several sites saying the owners actually moved on them... finally), and we now have a season.
They, the players, now get to ply the trade they've worked their entire lives for(but will always earn way too much money).
They, the owners, get to practice a business that they own, and watch that business growth(although likely a loss this year).
More importantly, we, the fans, the true owners... the people that are providing their hard earned dollars to both sides, now have something to watch.
I can't wait for the details on the agreement to be made public. We'll continue this when we find out the details of the new CBA. I'm confident it'll show exactly what I said needed to happen... the owners moved on system issues. The owners finally gave in to ANYTHING, and progress was made.