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How to stop this **** from continually happening to small market teams...

akirac73

akirac73

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I think the CBA rules need to be changed. Here's an idea:

A player can never become an unrestricted free agent, as long as he is with the team that drafted him. The team that drafts you will always have the right to match any other offers. This will prevent teams like Cleveland ("The Decision"), OKC, and Utah from losing their star players while getting nothing in return.

There will be only two ways a player can get out of his situation and play for another team:
1. Sign and Trade deal.
2. Team chooses not to match an offer sheet made to a restricted free agent.

This will probably also stop this whole superteam BS and players manipulating the current system to play with their buddies...

Thoughts?
 
Players won't go for it
 
fishonjazz said:
Players won't go for it
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Of course they won't, but the Owners can demand it in the next CBA negotiations. The system is broken, changes have to be made.
Players will still have opportunities to play elsewhere, it just prevents teams from being left high and dry.
 
It's too restrictive, but I think you got part right. There needs to be mandatory compensation for teams to sign somebody else's high level player. Anyone who makes an all-star team or has equivalent advanced stats, all NBA, DPOY, etc..

How they figure the compensation, IDK. 2 first rounders or possible substitutions both teams agree on. If an agreement can't be made, the player must sign a 1 year deal in which he can be traded anywhere, and then he becomes completely unrestricted.

Something like that. I don't think you can or should force a player to stay on one team his whole career, but they need to help teams from getting left high and dry., as the monetary incentives are not enough, because most of these guys make such ridiculous amounts anymore, they don't mind the pay cut.


Pretty sure they had rules like this back in the 70's. That's when Utah had to trade the Magic pick for the right to sign Gail Goodrich as a FA.
 
remove max contracts If a team has a superstar let them pay them 60 million or whatever they want and fill it out with scrubs. Or hard cap. Only two ways.
 
1.Hard Cap.
2.Compensatory picks like MLB.
3.Franchise tag like NFL. It gives a small market team the advantage to keep the player for at least 1 year to work out a new contract or even if it's to conjure up a trade to get something in return so teams aren't left hanging high and dry.
 
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