I agree, deng just got greedy.. as you said, josh howard is a better player and making a lot less, the same with ron artest... These inflated salaries are going to hurt the league.. How are you going to put out a good product when you pay guys like deng 12 mil a year? how?
The League is a joke with their cap/lux tax thresholds. However, that shouldn't stop us from pursuing a good player.
As to the league: In my opinion the allowance on contract sizes far outweighs to overall roster allowance in terms of the cap.
How do you fix that? The cap should be raised a LARGE amount since you can never tell these guys "oops, thats it, max contracts are 5M per year now!".
A team has 15 players?
Fine.
3 Max Contracts (any great team has 3 max guys)
9 MLE Contracts
3 Min Contracts.
No, I'm not talking matching up player to player (9 guys all making MLE), I'm talking in total.
Whatever the total of 3 max, 9 mle, and 3 min comes to? That should be the cap. That way teams aren't bent over by the cap.
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To those still looking at 2010, LeBron, etc. Hey, those are pipe dreams, you don't pass on a good player to HOPE you land a great one 2 years later. Just ask the Orlando Magic and John Gabriel. That clown disposed of player after player looking to land Tim Duncan in 2000. Then proceeded to pass on deal after deal to maintain his hope that in 2003 Duncan would finally come. Duncan never did and the Magic were a big pile of garbage all those years as a DIRECT RESULT of the "get cap space, get lebron" type idea. You can't operate like that.
