Clearly the league was out to dismantle and prevent the top players from joining up to hold court on the playground, er, I mean prevent multiple superstar partnerships.
Pat Riley's model for NBA success pushed the Miami Heat within two victories of last season's NBA championship.
The NBA's model for future success apparently is taking aim at pushing LeBron James or Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh out of South Florida.
Taking its social-media lockout campaign from Twitter to YouTube last week, the NBA posted a slideshow detailing the intended consequences from the proposal that led the union to instead pursue a resolution in the court system.
While most of the frames simply detailed the highlights of the league's offer, the final frame detailed what the NBA termed a "sample team roster" for the third year (2013-14) of the proposal. The Year 3 model was utilized because the league had proposal a gradual move toward the new revenue approach, with 2011-12 and 2012-13 to have included some facets of the previous collective-bargaining agreement.
Under the league's proposal, in order to avoid what would become an onerous luxury-tax that might even make Heat owner Micky Arison think twice about spending above the projected $75 million ceiling, the league proposed the following 2013-14 roster composition:
One "Superstar (max salary)": $17 million.
One "All-Star": $14 million.
One "Starter": $10 million.
Two "Starters": $8 million (apiece).
One "6th Man": $5 million.
One "Rotation Player": $4 million.
One "Rotation Player": $3 million.
One "Rotation Player": $2 million.
One "Rotation Player": $1 million.
Five "Remaining Players": $3 million (total, $600,000 average per player, essentially minimum scale).
Not only are the Heat not currently in position to fill out such a roster, but their top-heavy payroll would make such a hasty transition virtually impossible.
The Heat currently have six players under contract for 2013-14: James and Bosh at $19.1 million apiece; Wade at $18.7 million; Mike Miller at $6.2 million; Udonis Haslem at $4.3 million; and Joel Anthony at $3.8 million. Those salaries would put the Heat at $71 million in payroll. There also would be the salary of 2011 first-round NBA Draft pick Norris Cole, plus possibly the salary of at least one additional first-round pick.
Not only would the Heat have to release Miller under the NBA's proposed amnesty program (which would remove his salary from the cap and tax, but still require actual payment) but it is possible Haslem and/or Anthony would have to be sacrificed just to be able to fill out the roster with minimum salaries and remain below the luxury tax.
The luxury tax under the NBA proposal not only would have increased severely above the previous dollar-for-dollar penalty payment for payroll above the tax floor, but in the NBA's proposal would have banned teams from participating in sign-and-trade deals starting in 2013-14 and reduce by $2 million the amount such teams could have offered as a mid-level exception.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/m...7247044.column
The NBA's model for future success apparently is taking aim at pushing LeBron James or Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh out of South Florida.
Taking its social-media lockout campaign from Twitter to YouTube last week, the NBA posted a slideshow detailing the intended consequences from the proposal that led the union to instead pursue a resolution in the court system.
While most of the frames simply detailed the highlights of the league's offer, the final frame detailed what the NBA termed a "sample team roster" for the third year (2013-14) of the proposal. The Year 3 model was utilized because the league had proposal a gradual move toward the new revenue approach, with 2011-12 and 2012-13 to have included some facets of the previous collective-bargaining agreement.
Under the league's proposal, in order to avoid what would become an onerous luxury-tax that might even make Heat owner Micky Arison think twice about spending above the projected $75 million ceiling, the league proposed the following 2013-14 roster composition:
One "Superstar (max salary)": $17 million.
One "All-Star": $14 million.
One "Starter": $10 million.
Two "Starters": $8 million (apiece).
One "6th Man": $5 million.
One "Rotation Player": $4 million.
One "Rotation Player": $3 million.
One "Rotation Player": $2 million.
One "Rotation Player": $1 million.
Five "Remaining Players": $3 million (total, $600,000 average per player, essentially minimum scale).
Not only are the Heat not currently in position to fill out such a roster, but their top-heavy payroll would make such a hasty transition virtually impossible.
The Heat currently have six players under contract for 2013-14: James and Bosh at $19.1 million apiece; Wade at $18.7 million; Mike Miller at $6.2 million; Udonis Haslem at $4.3 million; and Joel Anthony at $3.8 million. Those salaries would put the Heat at $71 million in payroll. There also would be the salary of 2011 first-round NBA Draft pick Norris Cole, plus possibly the salary of at least one additional first-round pick.
Not only would the Heat have to release Miller under the NBA's proposed amnesty program (which would remove his salary from the cap and tax, but still require actual payment) but it is possible Haslem and/or Anthony would have to be sacrificed just to be able to fill out the roster with minimum salaries and remain below the luxury tax.
The luxury tax under the NBA proposal not only would have increased severely above the previous dollar-for-dollar penalty payment for payroll above the tax floor, but in the NBA's proposal would have banned teams from participating in sign-and-trade deals starting in 2013-14 and reduce by $2 million the amount such teams could have offered as a mid-level exception.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/m...7247044.column
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