Kobe is a jackass

[Jazz Spazz]

Well stated. They're the ones doing the work.

Yea, those knucklehead owners, GM's, scouts, coaches, and doctors do nothing.
You can get any group of players together and win a championship.
Who needs to "build" a team, or "coach" the players?
Don't they "build" and "coach" themselves during the offseason?
It doesn't matter one bit who the Clippers ownership, coach, or GM are.
The NBA doesn't need balance of any sort.
The owners don't deserve any sort of return on their investment.

I'm with you on that 100%.

By the way, scalpers only make money when the game is a sellout. Not a high percentage of sellouts to non-sellouts if I remember correctly so that shouldn't make much of a difference.

 

[VINYLONE]

Yea, those knucklehead owners, GM's, scouts, coaches, and doctors do nothing.
You can get any group of players together and win a championship.
Who needs to "build" a team, or "coach" the players?
Don't they "build" and "coach" themselves during the offseason?
It doesn't matter one bit who the Clippers ownership, coach, or GM are.
The NBA doesn't need balance of any sort.
The owners don't deserve any sort of return on their investment.

I'm with you on that 100%.

By the way, scalpers only make money when the game is a sellout. Not a high percentage of sellouts to non-sellouts if I remember correctly so that shouldn't make much of a difference.

You've missed my point completely.

 

[UB]

So you want guys like this to run the NBA now?

Wait, what's wrong with Arvedys? Dude was like Memo with a mean-streak.

 

[franklin]

They do it because the market sets the price and they want to be able to put a competitive team on the floor. The fans go to the game to watch the players compete. The structure of the current union contract might be out of whack but I'm in favor of the players making as much as they can. It isn't as though they players take a pay cut and ticket prices get cut in half. The fans pay what they are willing to pay to go to the games, so the ownersw will continue to charge as much as possible. If the ticket prices are artificially lowered you'll see the secondary market explode (scalpers) and the average fan will still pay the same high prices.

This whole free market idea would create a race to the bottom and blow out every small market team. If that's what you want then advocate it up, but realize the NBA will lose a lot of teams. The rich teams wouldn't make nearly as much without the poor filling up the league. NFL and MLB have learned about revenue sharing, but NBA doesn't want to budge to raise all boats.

It's not free market anyway. Nearly every franchise is highly subsidized by the poor citizens of the state to pay for a stadium that only the rich can afford to attend games in. Imagine that.

 

[Gameface]

This whole free market idea would create a race to the bottom and blow out every small market team. If that's what you want then advocate it up, but realize the NBA will lose a lot of teams. The rich teams wouldn't make nearly as much without the poor filling up the league. NFL and MLB have learned about revenue sharing, but NBA doesn't want to budge to raise all boats.

It's not free market anyway. Nearly every franchise is highly subsidized by the poor citizens of the state to pay for a stadium that only the rich can afford to attend games in. Imagine that.

This is in response to CJ asking why the owners pay so much to the players. My answer is that they have to pay the going rate to get decent players. I think the league HAS to have some sort of cap system for it to work, unless they want a 12 team league.

My other point was that even if you pay players less you don't really reduce ticket prices by much because scalpers will buy them up and sell them for what people will pay.

In the end, while it is not wide open with teams like L.A. and N.Y. having player payrolls upwards of 200 Million with all-star like rosters, the free market is inescapable. There is a certain amount of money that the NBA generates. They can pay a lot of it to the players, or they can pay a lot of it to the owners, or they can pay all of them very little and let the secondary market and advertisers make most of the money. In the end there is a pile of money and it isn't going to go unclaimed.

 

[Get Down]

Wait, what's wrong with Arvedys? Dude was like Memo with a mean-streak.

Dawg c'mon, Sabonis is one of the top five basketball players ever