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Demarcus Cousins has signed to the Warriors
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If the NBA really want to increase competitive balance, all they have to do is get rid of the max contract. The problem is it will be really hard to convince the Players Association because you'll end up with situations where your superstar gets $80 mil a year and the rest of the team have to share $25 mil.
im tired of Fjordson "oh gee im worried about the warriors :(" act. Nobody's buying this from a team that's bout to walk to the most noncompetitive three-peat in modern NBA history.
I am sure there others will take his place. Always thought the objective is to win the game and teams should give themselves the best chance to win. Blame your own teams for not being good enough, not the other team for being too good.
Even coming off of a major injury this is insane
Someone would have given him way more money even on a short term 1+1 or something
I remember the blazers giving Greg Oden a 1 year 10m deal a few years after it was pretty clear to literally everyone he was completely done just to see on the slim chance that he wasn't
Someone would have given him way more money even on a short term 1+1 or something
I remember the blazers giving Greg Oden a 1 year 10m deal a few years after it was pretty clear to literally everyone he was completely done just to see on the slim chance that he wasn't
Damn, the league gets even more bitch made.
All this is going to do is devalue the worth of getting a ring, tbh. Dirk's one is probably going to mean more than KD getting 10 on this broken team.
All this is going to do is devalue the worth of getting a ring, tbh. Dirk's one is probably going to mean more than KD getting 10 on this broken team.
I watched one game this past season. My team just signed the best player in the league, and right now I probably am not going to beat that record this coming season. If we can also sign the most intrinsically expensive and most talented team in history at the same time as Golden State then I might start watching. Or if multiple Warriors starters are literally taken out for the rest of the season by a crazy fan or during a game I might start watching.
Edit: Literally wishing for wrestling storylines in the hopes of making the league more watchable.
So Cousins could in theory be ready for opening night, but they're gonna let him rehab slow and come back around New Years time?
Not having Stugotz this week really stings now. I need to hear his takes about Boogie and the personal record book.
Or institute a hard cap. Either way though the middle class player gets hurt which means the NBAPA will never approve it.
He's a UK fan as well. I have no sympathy.
Or institute a hard cap. Either way though the middle class player gets hurt which means the NBAPA will never approve it.
He's a UK fan as well. I have no sympathy.
Of course not, The Warriors already had the championships locked up for the next few years.
Lol - Cousins might not be the same player after the torn ACL, but this is still silly. Look forward to the box scores, probably won't be watching much.
I get being salty because as much as I defended KD for doing what he did, this is just insanity now, but how is this cheating the system???? Lmfao.
Last February's Superbowl between Philly and New England was far more entertaining than any NBA playoff game in the past couple of decades. Both were at a high level the entire season.
And maybe address the soft contact whistles and the flopping epidemic before we go calling the NFL trash because of rules.
Anyway the Warriors are about to threepeat and really this upcoming season should be their chase for a fifth ring...were it not for the nut shot™️. Kinda ridiculous just to think about it.
This really makes me miss the days where every team had at least one superstar player. Now you're going to have the best PG, 2nd best player in the world, top 5 SG, and the best center in the league albeit coming off a major injury which will bench him for at least until 2019 on one team.
But the Dubs are winning the next 3 titles barring any major injuries. I'm not going to say that I'll stop watching (I don't watch until the playoffs anyway) but it's going to be another predictable finals and that's a little disappointing.
But the Dubs are winning the next 3 titles barring any major injuries. I'm not going to say that I'll stop watching (I don't watch until the playoffs anyway) but it's going to be another predictable finals and that's a little disappointing.
The league is made up of the owners, and there is a less than zero chance that the owners are going to pass a rule saying "You have to take more of our money, you are not allowed to take less of our money"
These things are outliers. The odds that another championship team with 3 all stars is somehow going to find themselves with the cap space to sign a 4th all star (it's not like KD took significantly less money) is unlikely to ever happen. The Warriors formed their super team largely out of fortune and good front office moves (getting Steph on a cheap deal due to his ankles, and finding Dray in the 2nd round), not because KD was hell bent on forming a super team.
At least with this past season, you saw some cracks to the Warriors. Houston managed to take them to 7 games. In the East, Boston emerged as a threat and made people realize how deadly they could be if healthy. Philly has outstanding young talent and is just maybe one key piece away from becoming a contender.
Then with FA just starting Lebron signed with the Lakers and there have been steady talks of them acquiring Kawhi to build another super team. It felt like there were now signs of optimism or hope.
All of that is now gone. If Boogie can rehab himself back into 70% by June they will blow every team out by 20 points minimum in the playoffs.
Credit to the Warriors because the front office has built a monster but what the fuck is going on with the other players?
Where is the competitive balance?
Then with FA just starting Lebron signed with the Lakers and there have been steady talks of them acquiring Kawhi to build another super team. It felt like there were now signs of optimism or hope.
All of that is now gone. If Boogie can rehab himself back into 70% by June they will blow every team out by 20 points minimum in the playoffs.
Credit to the Warriors because the front office has built a monster but what the fuck is going on with the other players?
Where is the competitive balance?
Entertaining != quality.
The Super Bowl was bad. Non-existent defense.
But soft whistles and flopping going unpunished *is* rules :thinking:
NFL needs to stop calling PI/holding on every pass and they need to stop digging the hole on the catch rule.
The entire purpose of the Salary cap system is to insure that no one team can have all the stars on it. Thats why max deals and the cap system exist in the first place. The best players make a shitload of money and that money goes against the cap making sure that no team can have nothing but stars. And if they go over the cap they are heavily penalized.
However the Warriors are undermining that system by taking star players and convincing them to play for pennies in exchange for a ring. It undermines the entire purpose of the salary cap system.
Yeah I'm only watching soccer next year.
Not hating on the Warriors. Good signing and their fans must be stoked, but it is boring to me.
To clarify, it is boring when you know the championship is already decided. Basketball is not boring at all.
Not hating on the Warriors. Good signing and their fans must be stoked, but it is boring to me.
To clarify, it is boring when you know the championship is already decided. Basketball is not boring at all.
There's always gonna be bad teams, but the NBA is still the most talented it's been in forever. If now ain't time for expansion then it's never.
The Perfect storm needed to duplicate this warriors team is so unfathomable, it's probable that's it's never happening again.
Ten years from now you'll get your "parity".
Ten years from now you'll get your "parity".
While this sounds good it is not even close to the same situation. CP3 is not getting a max contract after this year and given his injury history he had to capitalize on it. KD likely has two 4 year max contracts in him.
Been thinking about this a lot lately, but what is the point of the salary cap in the NBA? I hate the cap on player salary, they should be able to earn as much as a team is willing to offer. To me, and I'm probably wrong, it seems like it leads to iniefficiency. I just want open bidding, let teams spend, and let the chips fall where they may. Bad players capture surpluses, would rather reward great players and if some teams want to overspend go right ahead. Won't change things for the worse considering the current situation, but I may be wrong.
Man, how did OKC blow their opportunity. They had one hell of a squad and somehow lost most of their talent.
Man, how did OKC blow their opportunity. They had one hell of a squad and somehow lost most of their talent.
This right here. It wasn't some master planned move from GS that was years in the making. It was just a perfect confluence of events that allowed for this to happen. It was smart of them to convince KD to take slightly less just in case an opportunity like this presents itself though, but that is pretty standard practice from good front offices. Especially ones with winning track records.
Even worse than an acl it's an achilles tear. Guys generally aren't the same after an achilles.
My Nationals are going all the fucking way this time. Bet
Yep. Might try again to get into hockey, as well, see how the Blue Jackets do this season. There are other options.
Taking a pay cut for a ring didn't work out so well for Karl Malone. It's not a guarantee.
If the NBA just didn't have that ridiculous salary cap increase a couple summers ago this shit doesn't happen. A team like the Warriors shouldn't be in position to afford Kevin Durant without losing anything of importance.
Ya'll need to chill, DMC is signing such a shit contract for a reason and won't be the same player he once was.
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Also hearing on Cousins: may not be back on the floor until February as he recovers from torn Achilles.
5:54 PM - 2 Jul 2018
Ric BucherVerified account @RicBucher
Also hearing on Cousins: may not be back on the floor until February as he recovers from torn Achilles.
5:54 PM - 2 Jul 2018
Haha, hey I'm not worried about the Dubs overall, this is a luxury signing for them and I totally get why other fans hate it. I just think some people are overstating what Boogie's impact will actually be next season. There's a real chance he could be done as an elite player.
While I agree with you in general, this specific issue is unrelated to the cap. Boogie could have gotten more money elsewhere. He chose not to because he knows he's going to have to spend most of the season rehabbing, so why not do it with a good organization and get a ring in the process? This is not a specific scenario that calls for wholesale changes to the cap rules, unless you want to make it a rule that "Former all stars with career threatening injuries are not allowed to sign with defending champion teams in the season immediately following their injury". It's silly.
How the fuck is Cousins to the Warriors allowed? They are a basketball team trying to win a game not fucking beat Thanos.