I guess I had the NFL model in mind when I was thinking hard cap. Draft well, don't overpay for free agents and you can build a winner. I just thought the Jazz could be very successful with the hard cap in place given their relatively good drafting and mostly not overpaying for free agents. Just thinking out loud as to why the Jazz might want to wait until the next CBA to make serious changes to the roster.
Hard Salary Cap?
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Personally, I think this might be the answer: a hard cap, but with your own players counting at a reduced rate against the cap. Like, if a player has been with you 1 year, only 95% of his salary counts against the cap. If a player has been with you 2 years, only 90% of his salary counts against the cap. If a player has been with you 3 years, only 85% of his salary counts against the cap. (The numbers might need to be tweaked, but I think the concept is good.) I invented this idea a couple of years ago. I think it has the best of both the hard cap & soft cap worlds, with not too many drawbacks (unless I'm overlooking something...).
Stifle Tower
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IAWTP. I doubt even the owners would agree on a hard cap. The league is set up so the big market teams can dominate. Of course some owners/GM's/coaches have been idiots (like NY) and some "smaller-than-big-market" teams have had incredible FO and coaching (San Antonio).
But it is in the league's best interest to have a few super-teams like LA, Boston, the Knicks (or Nyets). Stern has a global vision. I could see in 15 years, the NBA champion taking on Real Madrid or the Beijing Dragons for the World Title.
Whatever is done in regards to lowering the cap and salaries, there probably will be a one-time exemption. Maybe you take your highest salary and it only counts 50% against the cap over the remaining 4 years or whatever.
A lockout is almost assuredly guaranteed. And with Derek Fisher as president of the players association, Stern ought to hire the "Fisher Lied" chicks as the NBA's official media relations staff.
gregbroncs
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The league needs to go with a hard cap and fully non-guaranteed salaries. Let the players strike, hire scabs and play until the players come begging back like they did in the NFL years ago.
Darkwing Duck
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gregbroncs
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lol, why stop there? Lock 'em out until they give up free agency.
I know it won't happen right away. But the players in the NBA have little incentive to play hard once they sign on the dotted line. I could live with the current cap situation if the contracts of some of these player's was not guaranteed.
It works in the NFL. They have a lot more player's to deal with but still there is a reason it's top dog in the sports world.
I personally like the non-guaranteed contract aspect. A team could still choose to guarantee a certain percentage of the contract, or a certain time period of it. Much like the NFL (like gregbroncs wrote). If I were an owner, that's what I would be pushing for. I'd bet Washington is wishing that were the case right about now.
billyshelby
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The NBA has non-guaranteed contracts. Players can just choose not to sign them.
carolinajazz
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....these owners are going for the jugular....there ain't gonna be no "signing bonuses" either!
carolinajazz
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....I think gregbroncs is now a full-fledged, anti-hopper.....carolinajazz convert!
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Anyone who is anti-hopper is anti-American, CJ, caincha see? It's, like, treason.