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Lockout is OVER!!! NBA is back according to sources

GVC said:
I'm interested to see what changes to the drug policy the two sides want to make. The NBA has always been very lax on weed, and I can't imagine a deal would get done if that changed drastically. We'll see.
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I tried giving you rep but apparently I've given you too much.
 
David Aldridge is saying that the sing-and-trade has been reinstated. That was one thing I really wanted to be abolished in this CBA. Gives players too much leverage to force a trade and still get paid (i.e. Melo).
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
David Aldridge is saying that the sing-and-trade has been reinstated. That was one thing I really wanted to be abolished in this CBA. Gives players too much leverage to force a trade and still get paid (i.e. Melo).
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Melo has never been part of a sign and trade.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
Extend-and-trade? Does that work better for you? I think everyone knows what I'm referring to.

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiret...o_Eliminate_Carmelo_Anthony_Extend_And_Trades
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The provision allows the team making the trade to get something in return for the player. If not for that provision, the Nuggets would have been left with nothing. Because that provision exists, the Nuggets have a bunch of young, controllable players.

Is excessive player movement really an issue in the NBA? Melo stuck it out in Denver for nearly 8 years, and LeBron was in Cleveland for 7. That's a big chunk of their expected NBA lifespan that they would have preferred to play elsewhere.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
David Aldridge is saying that the sing-and-trade has been reinstated. That was one thing I really wanted to be abolished in this CBA. Gives players too much leverage to force a trade and still get paid (i.e. Melo).
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Keeping extend-and-trades is a big blow. That ****ing sucks.

The owners really ****ed this one up. I believed that if the owners went for the right things then I'd be behind the lockout 100%. Instead of working on issues of parity and fortifying the ability of teams to not get Leboned, it was a cash grab.

What the **** ever. Give me my ****ing hoops.
 
GVC said:
The provision allows the team making the trade to get something in return for the player. If not for that provision, the Nuggets would have been left with nothing. Because that provision exists, the Nuggets have a bunch of young, controllable players.

Is excessive player movement really an issue in the NBA? Melo stuck it out in Denver for nearly 8 years, and LeBron was in Cleveland for 7. That's a big chunk of their expected NBA lifespan that they would have preferred to play elsewhere.
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I don't think Melo was unhappy in Denver for most of that time. Lebron changed the culture of the league like no one else has. That HAD to be curtailed and the owners put on fireworks but did nothing about it.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Lebron changed the culture of the league like no one else has. That HAD to be curtailed
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He shouldn't have been able to sign elsewhere? He took less money to move to another team as a free agent. How would you curtail that?
 
GVC said:
He shouldn't have been able to sign elsewhere? He took less money to move to another team as a free agent. How would you curtail that?
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*Lebron and Bosh. The not very big 3 have changed the culture of the league.

Franchise contract, ideally. No extend and trades at least.
 
NUMBERICA said:
*Lebron and Bosh. The not very big 3 have changed the culture of the league.

Franchise contract, ideally. No extend and trades at least.
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So your solution is to force players to stay on the same team? For how long? Their whole career?

And Denver didn't have to extend-and-trade Melo. They could have waited until the end of the season and lost him for nothing.
 
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