MLB = no cap, teams if they have financial means, they can overcome mistakes
NFL = no guaranteed contracts, ability to amortize signing bonus over multiple years

The NFL has the best salary. You don't earn your salary, you're gone. The NBA makes it awfully hard for bad franchises to survive mistakes. Matter of fact, in the case of the Knicks, not only haven't we been able to sign a significant FA since Allan Houston, but we're 3 years away from the next FA. I realize the Knicks made their bed here, but this is too harsh. I would be in favor of allowing teams to cut a player, pay the salary, incur some sort of salary cap penalty, but not be in a perm-a-cap-hell situation.

I meant, the NFL has the best salary situation.

Preaching to the choir.

It is no mistake why the NFL is the premier league in all of sports.. they get it right with the salaries too... what they do, by not guaranteeing deals for long periods of time and giving huge signing bonuses is basically paying the player, the most money for the years, they feel he will be at his best, or when you will get the most out of him.. Yes you take a chance with the huge signing bonus look at michael vick, but how many teams have gotten burned by the likes of grant hill? signs long term, huge guaranteed deal and is injured 85% of his contract.....

I say, the NBA should give signing bounuses and not guarantee deals longer than 3 years with a TEAM option for 2 years, each year being picked up 1 at a time, at the teams discretion...

Rules should be changed to help the knicks? Very few teams go over the cap so they are not all stupid.

I think the cap rule is excellent, but the lenght of contracts is crazy. NBA has shortend it last time out.

Cap was put in place to protect mid market teams from losing player like Orlando did with Shaq and left with nothing. At least if a player leaves a team it opens up a salary slot for another looking for a pay day.

It ain't perfect, but I thinks its better than Baseball.

Currently there are some teams that will never ever win in Baseball because they won't spend to even keep the good kids they keep developing.

So In a Way the NBA gets it right, and there are flaws.

Seems that when you are a fan of the knicks, and you have Tim Thomas, Eddy, Stephon, Francis and Jerome it seems we are getting duped over and over by the wrong type of player with the wrong type of contract!

I think Morons like Isiah is more of the problem then the rules.

The NFL gets it right but the one thing is that its very cap strict and its very hard to keep teams together. THe roster turns over so much it becomes hard for the causual fan to identify with the players.

Parity is best served this way and thats why you have so many teams ebbing and flowing every few years. NFL is a team league not the players league.

If you had this in the NBA you'd have a lot of turn over year to year.

That result may be mixed.

Good topic, you dig a hole like our morons did its hard to craw out from under.

i say a team should be allowed to waive a player every other year, have the dollars come off the cap but the team is still on the hook for the contract.