Consider that the NBA 2K18 MT Indiana Pacers aren't profitable at the most recent cap of
$58 million, and consider that if they paid $58 million in payroll every season
they would be among the two or three cheapest teams in the league, and consider
that to achieve a hard cap the NBA would have to raise that level significantly.
That's my concern with a higher, harder cap: in and of itself, it does nothing
to help teams that already can't afford to hit the cap.
It relies on the good graces of Buy NBA Live Coins Jerry Buss, Jerry Reinsdorf and Jimmy Dolan
to approve a helpful revenue sharing program ... in the months afterthe lockout
ends.This is what the NHL faces,as illustrated by SB Nation's Travis Hughes:
after the 2004-05 lockout, the league pushed through a hard cap with increases
tied to league revenue. The league's revenue has been booming, and will continue
to boom thanks to a lucrative new deal with Kabletown Comcast/NBC.
Already, just a few years in, the cap (and associated salary floor) are high
enough to make a number of teams unprofitable, and perhaps untenable.Without
strong revenue sharing -- something David Stern has never been able to draw from
his high-revenue owners -- the same situation would apply to the least fortunate
NBA teams from Day 1. A higher, harder cap isn't a fix.
If the NBA is looking to nba18mt achieve competitive balance through a hard cap, it
needs to crush its size lest a two-tier NBA be re-created, with the challenge of
making every team profitable kicked down the road. GOLDEN CALFWe touch on the
Knicks-Mavericks situation in today's This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, but
there are some other necessary observations to make from the payroll study, and
the Chicago Bulls are No. 1 with a bullet. (Literally!)
