How am I over it? I view it as an entertainment company owned by an elite group who have privelidge. They carved out excemptions to labor laws by self regulation. Players have gained leverage and get paid very well for their talents. Fans may love the game but nobody forces us to buy tickets, pay subscription rights to watch games, or support the sponsers. We are thrilled by the product and feel the disappointments.

As for "ClipperGate" its playing out in a very public manner and this will force a more public result to provide satisfaction that "Our game" and its competitive balance is preserved. The reality is this is an issue for the owners to solve as the true owners of the venue. They will also not cut their noses to spite their face.

The allstar game is in LA in the new state of the art arena. I doubt we get any results from this recent disclosure before that. Silver will have to speak for the league and kick the can down the road. Some fans who might see this as him being weak. TO the contrary, he is the defacto talking piece of the league and his job is not to satisfy fans emotions but preserve the financial interests of the the league and not offend the paying customer. That is not going to be an easy task. The league will take some hit on this. It will be calculated but the big picture will be considered. A strong executive will take the body blows so if one thinks Silver is weak, its perhaps by design. Hate him but love your team. He gets paid very well for this. If you hate Silver its him being strong, not weak.

What is the bottom line? What is the true measure of a leaders work? Well who actually hires him? The oweners, not us.
Two things: Revenue growth and franshise valuations.

Some of you will be "disgusted" by not having satisfaction in a short time frame and want the percieved justice. The true cost of this might be Balmer paying off his ownership group some ungodly sum of money for his act of thievery and the court of public opinoin thrown a bone in some manner and we all move on. Maybe not everything is disclosed to the public to preserve the public faith? Lord knows things like this might have occured before without our knowledge. This one is not one of them.

Knicks win a chip, who cares?

SupremeCommander wrote:the argument I've heard as to why the NBA can't really do anything about this, is because every team's hands are dirty. You after one, then they'll go after everybody else. It's a house of cards. I love this sport but tim Donaghy kind of proved this league would rather sweep it under the rug

Chewbacca defense again. If a majority of nba teams would like to pay the players more, why is there a salary cap at all? why have harsh penalties for the 2nd apron beyond a tax? Its safe to assume that a majority of teams want a strictly enforced cap abd max salary structure because they fought for it to be in the cba. The players union sure as hell wasnt arguing for salary restrictions.

Donaghy was kind of a unique situation because the nba was negotiating a new tv deal at the time and it was threatening the integrity of the league. This case are the actions of a rogue player and owner. The fact that in the past week both the Raptors and Lakers have come forward saying thst Kawhi was also pushing for similar arrangements with them shows that at least 2 teams feel this id unfair.

SupremeCommander wrote:the argument I've heard as to why the NBA can't really do anything about this, is because every team's hands are dirty. You after one, then they'll go after everybody else. It's a house of cards. I love this sport but tim Donaghy kind of proved this league would rather sweep it under the rug

Then why have a salary cap. Let’s just let the lakers and clippers sign anyone they want and force teams to trade them great players because the draft lottery is rigged. Oh wait.

NBA is just waiting this out hoping people’s attention drifts away and they forget about it

Silver also clarified his prior comments in which he said he’d never heard of the company Aspiration before. Silver's comment followed a post from Pablo Torre where he indicated he obtained a copy of Aspiration’s $300 million “Founding Sponsorship Agreement” that said the agreement must be approved by the NBA before its enforcement.

“If I said I never heard of it, I meant in the context of the accusations here. I mean, I certainly was aware of the brand,” Silver said.

This is definitely not what Silver said in the presser. There is no disambiguation in the phrase "Frankly, I had never heard of the company until the recent reporting on a podcast." I thought it was fishy at the time for the same reason as I said in a previous post. Again, I'm not really sure why Silver would lie or offer this extremely disenguous explanation. Why not just say this in the beginning? Why not just say he forgot or was unawre in his explanation? Now he looks very suspicious because it looks like he was covering. If I'm the Raptors owner, I am livid.