Was reading this article, and I agree with most of what it is saying.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/23244628/

I was wondering why do salaries need to match up when making trades? What was the initial reasoning behind this?

Posted by Andrew:

Was reading this article, and I agree with most of what it is saying.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/23244628/

I was wondering why do salaries need to match up when making trades? What was the initial reasoning behind this?

It's a good question and all I can say is it was intended to prevent teams who could spend money (like us) from simply acquiring players for nothing in return.

Such as, lets just get Shaq for Balkman. Miami would love the savings. We'd love Shaq. (just an example).

Also a lot of the CBA rules were meant to prevent players from jumping teams every other year - the idea was fans get to like certain players and then they are gone a day later - so that "wasnt fair" to the fans so some of these rules are meant to allow fans to become familiar with players and root for them for a long time.

In the end I think the NBA system is an absolute disaster. It either needs to be wide open like Baseball - or heavily restricted like Football.

The system has failed miserably and continues to do so. A lot of these restrictions actually SCREW teams and players....rather than help them...as was intended.