Mow-Ron
I am sick and tired of hearing how the owners expect the players to fix the spending problem over player salaries. Think about it...What salient advice can you expect from a moron who thinks it prudent to bring a gun to work to make a point.
I gotta get this one off my chest....
Whose business is this anyway? The NBA owners run a North American basketbal cartel. It's stupid for players to think otherwise. The NBA is a business to which the players contribute very little. Take the best 20 players in the last 20 years and remove them from the face of basketball and what do you have? You know it...A new top 20. The point is the NBA as a business is incredibly successful at creating money making superstars. That's what they do and that will always be the case when you have a short 48 minute game.
Now the problem starts when the owners realize they need a winner in order to sell tickets and television deals. They need a team where people and corporations will pay big money to be part of their fanbase or sponsorship.
Therein lies the problem...Joe Fan...The backbone to professional sports demands the best. This fan site proves it...We all demand the raptors to be winners. We do not silently tolerate teams who are destined to lose for the foreseeable future.
...Back to our friend Gilbert...What he fails to realize is that the NBA players do not assume any of their owners risk to play this sport. They, the owners start with their own capital and assume enormous amounts of risk in order to extract dollars from Joe Fan with a sellable product. The players (via their parasitic agents) make it impossible for every team to compete by negotiating such a large piece of the pie. When the players get 57% of revenue with 0% risk spread over 30 regional profit centers you have an unsustainable model. I don't even think a 50-50 split will do it either. Could you imagine what would happen to Mcdonalds or Walmart if over 70% of the stores where not profitable? Oh and yes that is how you have to look at this...Each NBA franchise is a Mcdonalds restaurant and NOT a Burger King and a Mcdonalds and a White Castle and a Wendys etc.
Who is to blame...Both the owners and the players but mostly the players for threatening to cripple the small market owners if they don't pay out gobs of money. Also a smaller chunk of blame goes to the large market teams who enable free agent talent with the promise of money and fame and thereby making it financial suicide for a smaller market team to compete on the same level.
The solution...Simple...Create a hard cap that gives players far less than 50% of gross revenue. I'm not sure what the actual number would be but I think 22 teams will not become profitable with a payroll hard cap that is only a few percentages lower. Also, the NBA should consider increasing the game duration to 60 minutes. This would take the luster off of some of the stars who simply can't last that long and force teams to use their bench in order to win. What would happen to baseball if it were 7 innings or hockey and football if they were 48 minutes each. You would have sports where a few stars are able to dominate the game and the reliance on the bench is minimized therefore the importance of a "A" list star who can carry the day is now essential. Without the relative importance of such stars you no longer need rely on the pampered 20 million dollar athlete who if you don't do things according to their mindset they leave town and leave you reeling for years to come...If you successfully eliminate the Prima Donnas in sport then you don't need to "build around" them...You simply need to build a team.
I am sick and tired of hearing how the owners expect the players to fix the spending problem over player salaries. Think about it...What salient advice can you expect from a moron who thinks it prudent to bring a gun to work to make a point.
I gotta get this one off my chest....
Whose business is this anyway? The NBA owners run a North American basketbal cartel. It's stupid for players to think otherwise. The NBA is a business to which the players contribute very little. Take the best 20 players in the last 20 years and remove them from the face of basketball and what do you have? You know it...A new top 20. The point is the NBA as a business is incredibly successful at creating money making superstars. That's what they do and that will always be the case when you have a short 48 minute game.
Now the problem starts when the owners realize they need a winner in order to sell tickets and television deals. They need a team where people and corporations will pay big money to be part of their fanbase or sponsorship.
Therein lies the problem...Joe Fan...The backbone to professional sports demands the best. This fan site proves it...We all demand the raptors to be winners. We do not silently tolerate teams who are destined to lose for the foreseeable future.
...Back to our friend Gilbert...What he fails to realize is that the NBA players do not assume any of their owners risk to play this sport. They, the owners start with their own capital and assume enormous amounts of risk in order to extract dollars from Joe Fan with a sellable product. The players (via their parasitic agents) make it impossible for every team to compete by negotiating such a large piece of the pie. When the players get 57% of revenue with 0% risk spread over 30 regional profit centers you have an unsustainable model. I don't even think a 50-50 split will do it either. Could you imagine what would happen to Mcdonalds or Walmart if over 70% of the stores where not profitable? Oh and yes that is how you have to look at this...Each NBA franchise is a Mcdonalds restaurant and NOT a Burger King and a Mcdonalds and a White Castle and a Wendys etc.
Who is to blame...Both the owners and the players but mostly the players for threatening to cripple the small market owners if they don't pay out gobs of money. Also a smaller chunk of blame goes to the large market teams who enable free agent talent with the promise of money and fame and thereby making it financial suicide for a smaller market team to compete on the same level.
The solution...Simple...Create a hard cap that gives players far less than 50% of gross revenue. I'm not sure what the actual number would be but I think 22 teams will not become profitable with a payroll hard cap that is only a few percentages lower. Also, the NBA should consider increasing the game duration to 60 minutes. This would take the luster off of some of the stars who simply can't last that long and force teams to use their bench in order to win. What would happen to baseball if it were 7 innings or hockey and football if they were 48 minutes each. You would have sports where a few stars are able to dominate the game and the reliance on the bench is minimized therefore the importance of a "A" list star who can carry the day is now essential. Without the relative importance of such stars you no longer need rely on the pampered 20 million dollar athlete who if you don't do things according to their mindset they leave town and leave you reeling for years to come...If you successfully eliminate the Prima Donnas in sport then you don't need to "build around" them...You simply need to build a team.
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