09-10-2025, 11:28 PM
(09-05-2025, 02:31 PM)F Gump Wrote: There is nothing to stop rich people from giving free money by the bucket load to a player in their city ... nor to keep them from hiring a player to endorse their company for lots of money. If that's how you want to spend your money, of course. And perhaps there can be value in an endorsement.
I know some people can be obsessed with such players playing on a team they like, beyond getting value back for what money they would give. To me, while I enjoy watching them play and cheering for the good guys, the lathering of more money gratuitously on an athlete already making gazillions to play a game would be a stupid way to spend your money. Let the Ballmers and Adelsons of the world pay their help themselves, they can afford it. But to each his own, I guess.
Huh? This isn't about rich people spending their money on whatever they want. It's circumventing the salary cap. Kawhi didn't endorse the company. That's the point. He did nothing. He was given $28m, with another $20m that the company coming if the company not gone belly up, Meanwhile, Balmer matches funds with his $50m "investment".
So you want owners to be able to pay free agents whatever they want to pay?