New CBA will kill superstars leaving via free agency

[JSD]

Listening to the latest LowePost, basically teams with Bird Rights can outspend for their player to the tune of $76 Million. This new CBA has a ton of unintended consequences. I'm on my phone now and at work, so I can't get into too much stuff at the moment, but I wanted to open up some dialogue on this and get some thoughts.

New LowePost is a must listen.

[guava_wrench]

I have never been a fan of giving teams more power to retain players. It makes the draft too important. I would rather let big markets outbid small markets because I don't have a problem with teams with more support having better chances, so long as we keep the cap and luxury tax in place.

I also do not care for max contracts as letting the best players get as much as they can get would do a better job of distributing players throughout the league.

[saltlover]

I don't know if it's Lowe or your understanding of Lowe, but it's really not a big deal.  This applies to only All-NBA players and DPOY with 8-9 years of experience who are signing their third contract with the team they finished their rookie deal with.  It's a pretty small pool of players every year, considering there are only 15 All-NBA players in any season, and most of them are not in their 8th or 9th season and free agents.

What it actually does is force teams with said superstars to spend extra money, pushing them above the apron into the luxury tax, and weakening their benches.