The owners and players are meeting today...
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7150515/nba-lockout-labor-talks-reportedly-set-resume-wednesday
... not that anybody really cares at this point.
I would like to give you 150 tommy points for the Charlie Brown reference in regards to the sides meeting. Whether or not this is going to be another Charade remains to be seen.
Reading the tea leaves here, I would say:
1) The BRI gets split at 50-50
2) The owners all agree on a revenue sharing program, which by the way is really gumming up the works. We have to keep Dan Gilbert of Cleveland happy because his team will suck for every year of this CBA. It would almost be better if the 24 owners of the healthiest franchises would pitch in pay the following have nots to go away:
a) Cleveland (Dan Gilbert lost his meal ticket Lebron)
b) Minnesota (Glen Taylor is an idiot)
c) Sacremento (Sorry Kevin Johnson)
d) Toronto (Canada needs to stick to Hockey, Eh?)
e) LA Clippers (Donald Sterling is an incompetent jack wagon of an owner)
f) New Orleans or Charlotte (Both are big money losers).
Contracting will bring parity back to the NBA that David Stern wants and we would have many teams to stand up to Lebron, Kobe, and Kevin Durant.
3) Need increased and graduated penalty tax for exceeding the total team salary thresholds. For example - The penalty is $1 for every dollar when the teams total player salary is between 60 and 75 million, $2 between 75 and 90, and $3 for over 90 million. If LA Lakers want to pay 120 million to keep Pau Gasol, Kobe, Artest, Fischer, Odom, Bynum and whoever else happy, Their penalty tax would be 15 + 30 + 90 = 135 million on top of the 120 million salary. But no problem, the movie stars can still shell out 2500 a night to be seen at the Lakers games. If the Lakers can generate 400 million (about 10% of the total NBA BRI) in revenue and have to share 100 million with their little brothers, that still leaves the Lakers owner with a cool 65 million profit at the end of day.
4) Guarenteed vs non-guarenteed or partially contracts, amnesty clauses (Vin Baker rule) This is other big political issue I see out there. I see this one going the way of teams getting to dump one salary slot a year to weed out the underperformers or problem players that don't fit in. For the Celtics, I noticed that Rasheed Wallace is still on the books for over 6 million... He is in year 3 of his mid-level.
5) Hard Salary Cap? Soft Salary Cap? No Salary Cap? Why have a cap when you have the penalty tax to check teams wreckless spending?
6) "All the other system issues" Trade Rules, FA, Rookie Contracts, Salaries..... This process should go fairly quickly under the watchful eye of someone like Larry M Coon.
I can get into a whole bunch of other fixes that the NBA should consider but I'll get back to you when I have more time.
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