03-31-2021, 06:15 PM
(03-31-2021, 03:37 PM)HanspardShowerVoice Wrote: ....but perhaps New York and LA markets stockpiling mercenary superstars is actually really, really, really horrible for the future of the league as an on court product?
It just turns a hopeless situation for fans into...what is worse than hopeless? Also, if I'm a team in the 7-10 spot right now, maybe I think about tanking the rest of the season for draft position which again has a negative impact on the fans.
The modern NBA Athlete is just built different than those in the past. With how early scouting works these days and AAU ball, everyone seems to know each other and are at the very least friendly, which makes it hard to rivals anymore. And I can completely understand wanting to work with your friends (it's what I did when I started my company) but I'm not in a field that is a spectator sport.
And with the modern NBA Athlete being so much more skilled on average, came a new era of basketball which is honestly not a lot of fun to watch especially if you aren't invested in a team or a more casual viewer Watching GSW throw up threes was fun because you had two-to-three of the best shooters to ever lace them up playing in that offense. It's less fun to watch when a team that wins 15 games a year utilizes the same tactics.
I'm not sure how you stop superstar teams and if you have those, talent in the buyout market is always going to gravitate to the chance at a ring to close out a career or rehab a career to help bolster their next potential contract. Maybe you could have a rule that only allows one buyout waiver claim every so many years.
To prevent super teams, maybe you allow one player to take up half of the salary cap and no other player on the team can make more than 50% of that contract number. So for the Mavs and using fictional numbers:
-20XX CAP is 120M
-Luka is 60M
-KP is 30M at most.
*shrug*