Are the Jazz winners or losers under the new CBA?

[gomretat]

If they did indeed cave on the S&T and mid -level for teams spending over the LT, this is sad. There was a chance to deal with the issues that confront small market teams and it sounds like the owners folded. BRI is irrelevant compared to those issues.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The amnesty thing is the minor victory. ONE contract that isn't guaranteed. I feel like the owners caved except they got 3 billion over the next 10 years.

So the players got to keep a luxury tax - albeit a more punitive one so only the super rich can spend it.
The owners got 3 billion in BRI.
Fans got what?

They get to see Basketball at Christmas. I've missed the Jazz no doubt, but the NBA doesn't really get going until around January. We haven't missed that much.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

The problem I have with keeping the LT and just making it more punitive is that it makes it practically impossible for small market teams to get to that threshold. Effectively, it actually creates an advantage to the haves.

The only significant change to this whole thing is the BRI split.

It favors rich owners, which isn't always the same as large markets (See LA Clippers and Portland Trailblazers).

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

It sounds like the deal the players rejected a couple weeks ago is basically the deal the players accepted yesterday. The players' anti-trust law suit didn't accomplish much if anything, and the small-market teams must have gone along with the basics of the deal that Stern put on the table two weeks ago.

Having a stiff luxury tax or even a hard cap isn't going to create parity in the league. The real question is whether small-market teams are going to be able to keep their star players or not, and what can these small-market teams do to make players want to come there and stay there?? I think that has to do with tv contracts and merchandising.

Another question hidden in all of this might be whether small markets can afford to compete for top coaches, but at the end of the day savvy ownership and GMs make or break the franchise with the hires they make--including players and coaches. Mike Brown in LA? Yeah, good luck with that.