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mellow said:
Do you think it might have changed his mind?


Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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I mean, what does it matter though? There are only going to be 18 teams after the 2016 season, and the Jazz won't be part of the league anymore, freeing Kanter up to play in Turkey.
 
mellow said:
Since you brought up the cba, everyone take a few moments to enjoy the nba for the remaining 8 weeks. It is irreparably broken as witnessed by the players rejecting the smoothing, and the likes of Dragic and Kanter trying to force their way out of the small market teams. Star players have already hinted there were too many teams, and I believe they, and their agents, will push for a league with 18 teams or less. A league where superstars can join their super friends for super teams. The tv revenues for the super teams will be split fewer ways resulting in higher salaries for the super players and higher commissions for the super agents.

The competition for the 18 spots will be fierce, and utah will have to fight to get in. The inherited ownership, recent poor performance, and general dislike of the state by owners and players alike will make the jazz easy chopping block targets.

The good news is the 12 teams can combine with 8-10 new teams to form a true minor league for the NBA, and the jazz can continue living by developing players and selling their contracts to NBA teams. Perhaps the new league can form an alliance with Europe and have a true international championship, or atleast multiple games against each other thus offering a fresh approach and new story lines to compete with the dull and tired stories the nba would try to offer.

So eat, drink, and watch merrily, because in 2017 the nba will die.
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This is one of the most dramatic posts I've ever seen on JazzFanz, which is saying something. So congrats I guess. But in the grand scheme of things 2016 Free Agency will be great for the big-market teams with no cap-smoothing mechanism.
 
b_line said:
wow. did they forget that Exum was the 5th pick this year? Those guys are nuts.
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Sometimes I'd like to forget that fact
 
b_line said:
I mean, what does it matter though? There are only going to be 18 teams after the 2016 season, and the Jazz won't be part of the league anymore, freeing Kanter up to play in Turkey.
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Nothing personal to you but people who started this idea are stupid. Who is going to play the other existing owners to go away?

For the sake of simple math lets make all the have-not franchises worth $750MM. 12 times $750MM is 9 billions dollars. Then you have to cover all the of the teams liabilities above their basic value to the ownership groups.

-Pay off the leases of stadiums and the fight the lawsuits for the publicly funded stadiums.
-Pay off local TV contracts
-Pay for private riot police to handle the rioting fans

The cost is too high.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Doesn't the buyout mean they really need a big? Maybe they won't trade Middleton, but the #18 pick and something else would be ok. If that pick is on the table, it could be used to grab a PG like Grant? or maybe even take a flyer on someone like Levert.
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Could they trade both thier firsts this year (thier own and the clippers) for kanter or is that not allowed by the cba?
 
Qman said:
Nothing personal to you but people who started this idea are stupid. Who is going to play the other existing owners to go away?

For the sake of simple math lets make all the have-not franchises worth $750MM. 12 times $750MM is 9 billions dollars. Then you have to cover all the of the teams liabilities above their basic value to the ownership groups.

-Pay off the leases of stadiums and the fight the lawsuits for the publicly funded stadiums.
-Pay off local TV contracts
-Pay for private riot police to handle the rioting fans

The cost is too high.
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LOL. Mellow was just exaggerating about how the big-market teams will have a heyday landing superstar FAs in 2016 when the cap jumps up. Obviously that will suck for small-market teams like the Jazz.
 
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