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Knickoftime
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2/23/2011  11:10 AM
JohnWallace44 wrote:Briggs, I do think that a salary reduction by percentage is the easiest way to fix the issues in the NBA. If they try to completely redesign the system, its going to mean an incredibly long lockout.

i think there is some very solid speculation that the owners are positioning themselves to got for a rollback, meaning cap and salary, and their leverage is a much more restrictive system.

Couple of facts. 1

1.) The NBA is NOT the NHL of a few years ago. Players have more leverage. The TV money the NBA generates is in another stratosphere.

2.) Current members of the NBA players union would have to ratify a new CBA, assuming by a substantial margin (2/3rds)

Now consider the max NBA contract is 6 years, and that is a not the average. By simple math it's pretty safe bet around 20% (maybe more) of all NBA players (and the crappy one's votes count equally as the stars) are unemployed at the end of every season and are looking for new contracts. Which makes %40 of the league in need of a new contract within a year of a new CBA being ratified.

If the owners are looking for a hardcap, and/or a greatly reduced cap, you'd be asking 40% of NBA players to either put themselves out of work or limit themselves to a minimum contract within 12 months.

How's that going to happen exactly?

Zack Randolph (for example) is going to vote to ratify a hardcap, which means he career might be over or at best someone will give him $1m?

I don't see it, and there are dozens more like him.

In order for the union not to break, if the owners are serious about changes, players are going to have to collectively give something back. College players will likely get shafted some more, because the current player won't mind taking from them. But the union won't agree to highly restrictive hard cap rules. It would be committing professional suicide for too many players need to ratify.

And the owners KNOW this.

Rollbacks, rookie contracts get taken a bite out of, and slight cap concessions is likely where this is going to wind up.

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2/23/2011  11:12 AM    LAST EDITED: 2/23/2011  11:13 AM
AnubisADL wrote:
martin wrote:
AnubisADL wrote:Easy we get OJ Mayo. He is built for NY.

why do you want Mayo? Knicks got like a millions guards. They need defense and bigs.

Having guards and having good guards is a different. There is a reason teams like Boston and San Antonio dumped Walker and Mason respectively.

We need an upgrade at PG/SG.

I actually agree about Mayo.

I'd target a center first and foremost, but Mayo would be on my list.

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2/23/2011  11:13 AM
BRIGGS wrote:Trade Turiaf Rautins and Randolph to Minnesota for 2012 pick--that opens up OVER 7mm in additional cap space 2 what we had and puts as at roughly 35mm in cap. that gives you the room int he world to do what you want.

other than the assumption Minnesota would give up a pick (I think Turiaf hinders your goal, not enhances), I'm down.

What do you want to do?

Ill give anyone a chance to explin to this board--exactly how do we improve the team

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