i think they’re referring to the actual amount of money between the tiers which iirc is only $5 million even though average player salary is now i think north of 10. they want to make it so signing one guy doesn’t blow right through the first tier.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 27 February 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
ah ok
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 February 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
it is funny tho that they did this to stop themselves from spending so much money but they just cannot stop, if i were a tax reciving team id be like no the tiers are fine
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 February 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
these two seem very reasonable
Increasing the contract extension limits, which would add flexibility and have significant effects incredibly quickly. Under the current CBA, teams and players can only increase the player’s salary by 120 percent in the first new year of the extension unless that player qualifies as a designated player/rookie or makes well below the league’s average salary. Shifting that 120 percent to potentially 140-150 percent as the sides have discussed, according to sources, opens the door a lot more for players who signed contracts that eventually become below-market deals to get enough of a raise to commit ahead of time, a group that potentially includes O.G. Anunoby, Domantas Sabonis and Lauri Markkanen over the next few seasons.
Smoothing out the process by which the salary cap rises instead of allowing the cap to spike, which occurred in 2016 and led to several overpriced contracts.
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 February 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
imposing a salary cap but then arranging a complicated tiered system of payments that allow you to spend over the cap you are imposing on yourself is a really funny circular game. like i get why it exists in this league but on its face it's still plainly stupid
― J0rdan S., Monday, 27 February 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
to their credit its a fun game, basketball is easily the best general manager sport
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 February 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
i would love to see them do some things to ease player movement in this CBA but it feels like the teams are still pushing it in the other direction. there is a healthy balance between the FA and trade markets that is heavily imbalanced now bcuz every star player is incentivized to take the massive extension that they can only get from one team the first day it's made available
― J0rdan S., Monday, 27 February 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
the decision was nearly 15 years ago and teams are still so shook by it. free agency is a more fun and overall a more healthy system than "you can only afford to acquire a star player if you are willing and able to mortgage a half decade of your franchise"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 27 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
or put another way i don't see how the bradley beal situation is beneficial to the league overall, or really to the wizards either. everyone is a loser in that situation except brad beal but even he kinda loses too
― J0rdan S., Monday, 27 February 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
the biggest max deals coming at the point when players decline is a flaw in the system
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 February 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
players should be eligible for super max as soon as their rookie deal is done imho
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Monday, 27 February 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
they are if they make an all nba team its just not as big of a super max as later cause the whole system is built on yearly raises
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 February 2023 19:03 (one year ago) link
it shd be the superest of maxes, like imagine tatum on the dame deal
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Monday, 27 February 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
nba needs to set up their own academies to protect kids from aau basketball its bad
The whole picture starts with players sometimes playing between 10 and 20 games per week between school, AAU and competitive runs.By the time guys get to the NBA, a lot of damage has already been done. NBA teams are mostly trying to hold of what feels inevitable for too many. https://t.co/S0gipY7dIZ— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) March 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 March 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
i keep wondering whether the ball bros having a bunch of injuries is related to stuff like that
― circles, Thursday, 9 March 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
Specialization is a killer. (Hollinger snippet below from our load management story: https://t.co/9YhWYHKBEx)It ain’t just the NBA. In baseball, you hope pitchers have already had their Tommy John’s before you get them. pic.twitter.com/NdtadVNe0p— Eric Nehm (@eric_nehm) March 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 March 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
also, humans keep getting bigger, stronger, faster - ligaments and cartilage generally don't get stronger/tougher.
― awaiting the ILX acquihire (PBKR), Thursday, 9 March 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
NBA, NBPA moving closer to agreement to establish rule that a player must play in a minimum number of games to be eligible for major awards as part of potential new Collective Bargaining Agreement, sources say.Full details in The Bounce at @TheAthletic: https://t.co/0BKUBNAkQr— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 13, 2023
that it’s going to be based on games rather than minutes is just the icing on the cake
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 March 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
The Mavs say Kyrie Irving (right foot soreness) joins Luka Dončić (left thigh strain) as OUT tonight against Memphis.— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) March 13, 2023
― J0rdan S., Monday, 13 March 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
kyrie shutting it down early to save himself for the summer contract for whichever team is sucker enough to sign him
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Monday, 13 March 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link
I was curious whether 1 of 7 games featuring both teams' top two players was a big outlier. So, I asked @DanFeldmanNBA to compile the data, and High Quality Matchup Rate was born:https://t.co/BvF4Plouidhttps://t.co/iikfe4g3hO— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) January 26, 2023
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 March 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
High Quality Matchup Rate was just 25% over the weekend. pic.twitter.com/MrK8SQh8bA— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) March 20, 2023
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 March 2023 14:36 (one year ago) link
new CBA has been agreed upon but still needs to be ratified. sounds like the midseason tournament is happening, among other things
― k3vin k., Saturday, 1 April 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
this thing where they’re killing the midlevel completely for high-spending teams sucks
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 April 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
yeah one would think the players wouldnt like that
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 April 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
it might be good imo
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Saturday, 1 April 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
Wonder how many of these we'll see under the new rule of 65-game qualification for MVP, DPOY, 6MOTY, MIP, etc. https://t.co/PLTRWSjK9d— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) April 1, 2023
this will be great
― k3vin k., Saturday, 1 April 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
one has to imagine they’ll have try and close such loopholes to a degree i.e. a “game played” for awards purposes only counts if you play at least 15 minutes or something
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 1 April 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
saw somewhere that weee is getting removed from drug testing for good, i guess that’s the players big win in this
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
they should be able to vape on the bench
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
When was the last time a player got suspended for weed? Feel like it’s already been removed from testing off the record or something
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
i’m still shook by stephen jackson revealing he used to smoke weed before games. few things would make me panic harder than smoking weed and then sitting on an NBA bench with all that noise & stimulation around me waiting to be called into the game. but i guess that’s why i’m not stephen jackson
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
yeah thats wild lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
i bet he smoked it a lil while before the game so that he wasnt super high but still feeling loose
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
like you get high then warm up and by the time the game starts youre in the zone, thats what i used to do at the gym lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
it’s a good thing there are only 2 games today, this way more games can be played the other days. if you’re making the schedule you definitely want to block some days off to not have games
― k3vin k., Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
they dont want to catch march madness
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 April 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link
there’s no known cure for it
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 April 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
April fools theres actually 100 games today
― Clay, Saturday, 1 April 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
shd be fine
Game changer: The league's new collective bargaining agreement will give players the ability to invest in NBA and WNBA teams, as well as promote and/or invest in sports betting and cannabis companies, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 2, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 April 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
invest in the teams they play for?
― micah, Sunday, 2 April 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
must be april fools
― micah, Sunday, 2 April 2023 02:12 (one year ago) link
love to invest in sports betting while playing professional sports
― Clay, Sunday, 2 April 2023 02:13 (one year ago) link
New cba sucks for teams that draft and develop well.
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Sunday, 2 April 2023 03:50 (one year ago) link
no games tonight, more games other days!
― k3vin k., Monday, 3 April 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
many games on tues, bos-phil cld be nice but wonder if we might be in rest mode east seedings are looking pretty set
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
I think officiating hasn't been mentioned enough as a factor in the NBA's offensive explosion this season16.6% of all 2-point shot attempts drew fouls this year, a massive increase from 15.2% last season, which was already the highest mark of the 21st century pic.twitter.com/GAuFTzNbwK— Lev Akabas (@LevAkabas) April 13, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
hmm not good
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
that's interesting. i'd be curious to see how that trends with 2-pt shot location (i.e. more shots near the rim = more opportunity to draw fouls)
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
^^^If teams continue to move towards the morey fever dream of all 3s and layups, gotta think this number has yet to reach its high water mark
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 14 April 2023 06:06 (one year ago) link