10-28-2022, 03:53 PM
(10-28-2022, 03:15 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: That´s what they thought after they tweaked the tax and introduced sharp repeater increases in 11/12. Turns out that with increased revenue and even richer owners that wasn't the case.
Actually, it seems to have mostly worked, until the last few years (when revenues exploded for a few teams). For a decade few teams would pay tax, and while a team here or there might be an outlier (paying way more than everyone else) for a year, it didn't last. They would lower payroll right away.
Now, GS and LAC are showing that they don't care about the tax -- at least, it's not a severe enough penalty to deter them from spending way above the tax line on an ongoing basis.
I think the tax mechanism is still the NBA's workaround for an answer, but just needs to be tweaked (which is an easy route to take, since tweaks to what already exists are easily sellable, whereas brand new rules are a much much much much harder sell). Revenue sharing is another side of the same coin that doesn't need as much player approval, and will probably be part of the equation. Both of those shifts in finances allow a team to spend as they choose to try to drive higher revenues, but then reward 30 teams with a stake in those revenue spikes rather than 1, which come from having that excess of talent over everyone else, and the results that flow from it.