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[Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter] ESPN Reporting with @BobbyMarks42: In new CBA, high-spending teams above a second-apron of luxury tax aren’t allowed to send cash in deals, trade first-round picks seven years away or sign players in the buyout market.

  • April 1, 2023


This is just flat-out embarrassing bro, does the league want to kill itself because wowsers

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  2. Lmao boo cj mccollum.Every-time you see him .Lacob was not joking about how the league was pissed I’m crying 😂.

  3. NBA is alienating the big spenders to accommodate the cheap losers what a joke this league is

  7. Holy shit what a shit show. NBA ratings are gonna drop so fucking hard now. What are we doing here exactly? Wanna just straight up take our players and scatter them around the league at this point. This is all just a major middle finger pointed straight at us for doing things the right way? Not our fault we struck gold in the draft multiple times.

    Adam Silver you’re the biggest bitch in commissioner history.

  8. pathetic. genuinely pathetic.

    these poverty franchises really think this is gonna help them, whatever they can stay irrelevant i guess.

  10. This might actually benefit the Warriors because it weakens the other contenders. We rarely make trades and never send out first round picks, buyout guys are always useless. It hurts teams like the Suns, Clippers, Bucks who rely more on trades and free agents to fill out their roster. We also have 2 promising young guys with Poole and Kuminga who will keep getting better unlike other contenders.

    We have a solid 8-9 man rotation already locked in, if we extend Dray/Klay we have enough to compete for the rest of Steph’s prime.

  11. Guys, I’m pretty positive this is just an April Fool’s joke but no else seems to even be considering it so I feel like I’m going crazy.

  13. Considering any player that can score 20 points a game is gonna get paid 20 mill a year this isn’t going to work out well for the league

  14. Theyr’re really trying to nerf good GMs. The future of the NBA is gonna look like what the middling Western conference has looked like this year.

  15. This affects us less than teams like the Clippers. We build well through the draft, don’t usually go after buyout players, and don’t make big trades. The removal of the MLE is annoying as hell though. We can just resign our guys and take advantage of the third two-way contract to develop.

  16. NBA/NBPA basically nerfed ring chasing.

    Didn’t affect the Warriors last year, ain’t gonna bother them this year, and won’t change them next year either.

  18. Silver just needs to go to fucking Disney and leave the NBA to someone who cares about putting out good product.

  21. Is this a wild idea?: Create a super-star slot that doesn’t effect the salary cap nor the luxury tax.

    There can be several factors that decide who is considered a super-star, but it doesn’t restrict a team from having 2 super-stars, it just makes more room for paying at least 1 super-star on your team what the market says they deserve without fucking up your salary cap.

    You don’t even have to use your super-star slot, but if you plan on building a winning team, you can slide one of your players who is about to sign a super-max to this slot and have room to build around that star.

    I was thinking about this while hearing about people bitching about QB’s salaries in the NFL affecting everyone else’s salaries on the team which is why no owner wants to sign guaranteed deals. In the NFL this could have been a QB slot instead of super-star slot I guess.

  22. The NBAPA Exec Committee is led by CJ McCollum followed by, among a couple others (that include JJJ and Harrison Barnes), 3 Celtics – Grant, Brogdon, and Brown. There is not a big 3 in the league that loves to rain hellfire down on petty haters like Steph, Klay, and Draymond. Good luck, boys, because y’all just lit a fire the size of the Grand Canyon under the last 3 guys you’d ever want to do that to.

  25. You know, in hindsight, the FO trying to maximize players by only using rooks and mid-level might have in preparation for this shitshow.

    With this kind of rule we can’t get people like DDV and correct me if I’m wrong but like OPJ last year.

  26. All cheapskate owners want is to get by with spending as little as possible and these changes do exactly that for them.

  28. I actually like the no buy out thing. it’s crazy to me how lebron’s heat or the clippers for example can just strengthen their team so much with buy out markets, when they were already super strong to begin with. it’s also unfair since it’s just the case of the rich getting richer, since no buyout players would want to join a non-contenders. It’s jarring to me why the warriors often was not taking advantage of this. Those buy out players ended up playing integral part in that season’ championship.

  31. Okc thunder fans are going to be PISSED in a few years. That team has like 15 first rounders and so many guys are worthy of being paid. RIGHT now you can say that theyw ouof love to extend, josh & the one jaylin thats balling tf out rn. Thats 3 huge contracts and thats not even including the center that got hurt in Sl. What happens if the find another gem or two in thir next 15 first rounders?? Lmao this is funny man

  34. This is stupid… So the NBA and sorry ass owners who don’t try to win or want to spend $$$ want to penalize the Dubs for drafting smart and wanting to retain their players? Outside of Wiggs who nobody really wanted until he balled out last year, our big contracts are towards home grown players.

    I probably don’t really mind the first part of this CBA but not being able to sign players in the buyout market is again STUPID. Injuries happen and it’s not like some being cut mid season is going to sign for more than a 1 year league minimum contract. Let’s go ahead and make Basketball retarded like baseball.

  36. The new CBA also makes it so you can’t use the MLE. We got Donte (who is crucial) through the MLE. This screws us once it takes full effect. We may not win it all this season, but the FO and this team needs to get its shit together and make an honest effort next year before we can’t use the MLE anymore.

  37. Odd question, but would the warriors just say a big FU to the league and keep resigning their main players? Can they still sign Dray and Klay with bird rights knowing that not signing them will not bring them low enough anyway? Essentially if you’re going to have nothing to work with aside from vet minimums, might as well keep as many bird right people that you can?

  39. The Warriors clause. Haha. THE WARRIORS SINGLE HANDEDLY made a billion dollar company change its entire salary structure.

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