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lolol pretty funny.

haven't watch SD in a while, might tune in.

You didn't like it? I thought it was hilarious. Dwight's daycare was unrealll

Not sure which thread it was that that billionaire kid called me an idiot for suggesting fantasies on salaries being potentially rolled back, but I think this is worth posting so he can eat my dick. Honestly, maybe now you won't be so quick to dismiss someone else's opinion just because it doesn't agree with yours. Or maybe I should just be a sports 'expert'

Toby and Michael were so win tonight, Michael realizing he got tricked was so hilarious, I haven't laughed that hard during the office in a while. I am gonna miss Michael so much.

LOL I was kidding but it looks like I struck a nerve.

I am just posting the fact son.

Joined: 20-July 10 Like you have any sort of credibility.

Diaw looked so fat in the fiba thing.

It is a shame Bosh has been better than him for 3+ seasons now.

This reminds me of when Shaq said it was racist that Nash won MVP.

Are you really suggesting it is easier to retain/keep your players with a hard cap than it is with a soft/lux tax? The big markets don't give a [expletive] about the lux tax, the lux tax is just another thing hindering the smaller markets and making it easier for the bigger markets to add the assets the small markets can't. Like I said before, you don't (typically) win in the NBA unless you are spending the lux tax, or damn close to it, and many franchises, quite simply, cannot afford to. The Miami Heat are fine, if players are going to take less and rig FA (they basically did), they are going to do it regardless of a hard or soft cap. I have no problem with what the Heat did, the fact they did everything they did within the cap, and unable to go over it, is worth applauding. I am just still stuck on the 'superstars will still take less to play together' part of your post, how often do players do this, or have done this, up until the Heat? This wasn't even a concern until the Heat big 3 did it, and they aren't even part of my thought process for wanting a hard cap. If this superstar grouping continues, we have bigger issues beyond whether the cap is hard or soft. I want a hard cap so that the Heat, for the sake of the argument, can't keep adding 5M salaries with the MLE and re-sign their guys until their salary is 90 million like LA, you think they are stacked now? Wait 3 years from now (with a soft cap) when they have added a bunch more sick MLE players like Artest, Odom, Miller (all in the MLE salary range) who took less because they can go as far over the cap as they want to, or have re-signed players and have a bunch of tradeable salaries to add another big name if they want. I don't like that the top teams somehow still have the ability to get some of the best players in FA despite not having cap, meanwhile teams like Memphis, Milwaukee, Indiana, Charlotte will all be stuck in the middle because FA's would rather sign an MLE with a team already way over the cap. Not to mention a hard cap stops teams from overpaying because they feel they have to, IE. Hawks with Joe Johnson. If a soft cap is kept in place, the Miami Heat, as they stand now, are just the tip of the iceberg for what they could be a few seasons from now. Tyson Chandler, Nene, Troy Murphy, do you really want the Heat to be able to pick one of these guys up next FA? And players like this in the coming FA's? I know I don't, and I don't want LA, Boston, Orlando, etc, to be able to get more rock solid players like them either, unless they have to trade something for them. I would rather see these talented players signed to teams looking to go from lotto to playoffs, 40 wins to 50, instead of them signing the MLE for a team looking to go from 55 wins to 60. Sorry for rambling but I was struggling to get all my thoughts without it being 1000 words.

Interesting, too bad the Hornets traded Collison, he was probably their best asset, all they have right now is Peja's big expiring, they don't even have the assets the Knicks do, which isn't a good sign for them.

As long as they don't use him as a jumpshooter I am sure he can still be effective.

So 1-4 studs each draft helps the other 10-15 teams who missed the playoffs/middle of the road teams that year get better? The point about the Thunder is that they are contending with low salaries, but in reality they are contending with a time limit because of the rookie deals. There is nothing wrong with it at all, the way that team was built was 100% how I would do it as a GM if I was good smart enough to be one. The point is they haven't had to re-sign anyone yet so I don't think it is fair to use their salary as an example in a discussion like this. The Heat, Lakers, Celtics got good through good drafting? Outside of Boston, Al Jeff specifically, I don't see it. Lakers hit a homerun trade, but this isn't about how they got good, for me at least, it is about how these teams STAY good, and I don't like how easy it is to stay good in the NBA right now, the way the cap is constructed. San Antonio might be the best managed team for the past decade. A hard cap could potentially encourage teams to be built exactly like the Pistons were.

The draft doesn't give all the teams a change at all. Basketball is a sport where star impact might be bigger than any other, a star can be the difference between lotto and 50 wins. What are the chances you are drafting a star (even a borderline star like a Maggette type) outside of the top 5, maybe 1/10? I think that is pretty generous to be honest. If you aren't drafting in the top 5 you are pretty much lucky if you are getting someone who is a solid starter down the road, that is why I am so pro-tanking. The middle of the road teams have no way of improving when the good role players are re-signed so easily. The Thunder's salary is so low for obvious reasons, not sure why you mention that, when their best players get what they deserve salary-wise, they will easily be over 70M, assuming that the cap didn't change between now and then. And they are probably going to have to give Green up, for this exact reason. The way FA works in the NBA, you are actually better off winning 15 games than 35 games, and it simply should not be that way. I am sick of the gap between good and bad teams, I am sick of the same teams winning yearly. You mention the 76ers, but how about every team in the top 10, besides them, is probably winning around 50 games or more, you don't get a homecourt advantage without hovering around the lux tax, and if you want playoff run, you are going over it, I don't think it should be like that. Unfortunately Stern would prefer the Lakers, the Heat, the Celtics, the Magic, the top stars, continue dominating each year, and I don't blame him. It does ratings, it makes him money, it just sucks for the other half the league that can't, or owners (like the Raptors) just simply won't. If all teams were capped out at the same level, it would put everyone on the same playing field, I think a hard cap of like 65 million would be extremely fair, as long as you give teams an optimum buyout rate and years to comply, so then the Lakers aren't dealing Pau for the same type of trash they gave up for him.

Prince and Hamilton are done, the Pistons are a bunch of misfits thrown together on a team, it doesn't fit, they have no bigs, no one who can defend and no one who can rebound. Give me Pacers over them, Hibbert is getting better each year, I love Hansborough for obvious reasons, they still have Dunleavy who is solid, Granger can put up points in a hurry, just as long as he isn't chucking, and Collison is twice any PG they have had since Tinsley.

If Turiaf, Azubike and Mason Jr. are your best players off the bench, it is going to be tough.

It would be interesting, no one on Miami could really defend CP3 and Dwight and no one on Orlando could really defend Wade or LeBron.

Lol.... it makes sense for far more reasons than it doesn't. It means that small market teams would have an opportunity to compete, it means everyone is on a level financial playing field, it means teams can't hoard their players, it means teams with cap have to use their brains before offering contracts, it means that guys like Amir Johnson and Drew Gooden don't make more than a few million a year. Turning the luxury tax into the hard cap would be fair for everyone, IMO.

yeah LA sucks.

Bosh signed to Miami before LBJ did, it is the primary reason LBJ went there, he was (apparently) recruiting Bosh to Cleveland, that failed, so he went to Miami with Bosh and Wade. And the Heat wouldn't have signed anyone else, Boozer? No, JJ was on Hawks, Amare was to Knicks, they might have gotten a solid role player with the money that is it.

He is going to need to stick jumper consisitently, they are going to need to win 55+ (or more than Thunder), and Kobe is going to have to not dominate. He will be in the discussion though, I think Dwight takes it this year.

Just speculation, and I doubt the number is as low as the NHL's if it does happen, but I think I speak for everyone who isn't a Knick, Magic, Celtic , Laker or Heat fan when I say PLEASE!!

I don't see Kings winning more than 35 games in the West. BTW, Landry is 27, he isn't a future star.