Current Events > LMAO the NBA Finals are about to be undefeated team vs undefeated team

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fucking 40 points
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Milkman5 posted...

if anything, lowering the cap would help these super teams because players take pay cuts to go on stacked teams. There would be no incentive to go on a non-stacked team if it wasn't for a huge payout

That makes no sense. So they well take a pay cut to go on a super team, but wont take less money?
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hyperpowder posted...

That makes no sense. So they well take a pay cut to go on a super team, but wont take less money?

The two superteams don't make the most money. If you lowered the cap, the others teams would have a harder time buying a team to beat the Cavs or the Warriors, because the players on those teams took pay cuts/aren't being paid their real value

Guys like Curry make money on sponsors anyway.

The more you take money out of the equation, the less the Warriors can be stopped

Calwyn posted...

The NBA can't really tell players that they can't sign with a certain team because they're already too good

Isn't that what happened to Chris Paul?
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hyperpowder posted...

Lowering the salary cap would pretty much demolish these teams.

the elite players are underpaid as is due to contract restrictions, while the "tier 2" players are overpaid. lowering the cap only helps owners short term.

hyperpowder posted...

That makes no sense. So they well take a pay cut to go on a super team, but wont take less money?

the point is, a tier 2 player can take a max contract now and not win a title. Earning 15-20 mil/year. Take Joakim Noah. 72 million over 4 years. That's an amount of money worth being a perenial loser. Now with a lower cap say he had to choose between 2 mil with the cavs or 5 mil with the knicks. is 3 mil worth losing for? 70 mil sure is.
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The NBA playoffs rarely have many upsets, this year is just particularly boring. Hopefully Lebron can make the finals interesting & bring another championship to Cleveland.

I want to see Draymond lose because he's the dirtiest player in the league aka the chronic nut kicker, and Durant doesn't deserve to win by going to a team that won 73 games without him.

garan posted...

Durant doesn't deserve to win

And LeBron does for doing the same thing? Lmao
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I Like Toast posted...

garan posted...

Durant doesn't deserve to win

And LeBron does for doing the same thing? Lmao

I wouldn't say it was the same thing. Miami was middle of the pack in the playoffs before LeBron and Bosh got there to turn them into a #1 seed, and James didn't leave his team to join the team that had just beat him. Durant on the other hand just got beat by the Warriors, and the Warriors were already a record-setting best #1 seed of all time when he decided to join them. They were already a Super Team without KD
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ViewtifulGrave posted...

Calwyn posted...

The NBA can't really tell players that they can't sign with a certain team because they're already too good

Isn't that what happened to Chris Paul?

didn't the nba own that team at that time? They simply rejected the trade because they didn't think it was a good trade for the team
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Basketball is a sport where
- Better teams win a large majority of their games. Compare to baseball where even the best teams post .600 winning percentages.
- Individual players have a significant impact on their teams' quality

I don't think there's a real solution to its parity woes; you can't divide Lebron into two and spread his talent across multiple teams. Any team with Lebron on it is going to be one of the league's best. Same is true with a select few other players.

Also, I don't think we'd be having this discussion if not for Kawhi getting hurt
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Anteaterking posted...

As someone who doesn't watch the NBA, it's weird to put this in the same perspective as people getting "mad" at the Patriots making it to the Super Bowl 4 times in the last ten years.

A total of four different QBs have won the AFC over the last 14 years.
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Antifar posted...

I don't think there's a real solution to its parity woes; you can't divide Lebron into two and spread his talent across multiple teams.

you can make lebron paid 2x what the rest make, Again, MJ made 33 million. the average team salary was 31 mil that year.

Teams couldn't afford to do what the CBA allows now.Antifar posted...

A total of four different QBs have won the AFC over the last 14 years.

4 =/= 1. and the NFC brought Ryan, Cam, Wilson, rodgers, Kaep, Warner, Eli, Grossman, delhomme, Rodgers, and Hasselback in that same time.

The east has been stagnant since Lebron, the West has now become equally as stagnant. And when the Celtics or Bulls could at least win a game or two, we now are looking at 3 sweeps on both sides. It's a bad product.
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Thrilling conference final, I wonder who's gonna make it to the championship?! Oh the suspense...

What a joke this league is.
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They need a hard enforcement of the salary cap. There's literally no point in even having one if you're just going to let teams spend tens of millions above it and just pay it off.
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inTaCtfuL posted...

ViewtifulGrave posted...

Calwyn posted...

The NBA can't really tell players that they can't sign with a certain team because they're already too good

Isn't that what happened to Chris Paul?

didn't the nba own that team at that time? They simply rejected the trade because they didn't think it was a good trade for the team

"Basketball reasons"
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Isaiah Thomas is out for the year with a hip injury. There go the Celtics chances of winning a game.

Also, the Spurs' David Lee hurt his knee in tonight's game.
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nah
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lol