Why did DeAndre Jordan agree to only 1 year with Mavs? Did Cuban tell him if you want multi-year, no player options?
Seems owners need to push back harder on that demand. Basically kills value of long term contract, and ownership bears all the risk if guy tanks or is injured.
He signed for the same amount as his player option that he declined. The Clippers has given him permission to find a trading partner, but ultimately couldn’t come to terms with Dallas on a trade, so that’s what happened there.
Short contracts, overall, benefit the owners. The revenue split is between 49-51% between players an owners. This generally assumes that the mean team will spend about 5-7% over the cap. When a lot of teams have cap room, that means that fewer of them will get to that 5-7% mark, since more of them will find it not possible to spend their cap dollars on players they deem worthy. This means that owners collectively are likely to get 51% of the split rather than 49%.
For players like DeAndre Jordan, a short contract may work because he’ll get paid when a lot of teams are potential bidders, but on the whole this favors the owners, which is one reason why they pushed for shorter contract lengths in the CBA several years ago.
