[Wojnarowski] 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.
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. https://t.co/LcI0Zjb3FF
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 1, 2023
by DRAZZILB1424
48 Comments
Shit just got super strict
Wtf
Awful, what does the buyout market even look like then in the future
Broke owners need to sell their teams if they don’t want to compete.
E: Read that Woj thread. This new CBA is a hard cap without calling it one lol
Ridiculous. The new CBA is going to penalize teams that draft well because they will have a limit on how many players they can afford to pay.
Wait can’t sign players in the buyout market? That’s a massive change. Does this include players that clear waivers?
We finally get a rich owner and we can’t do shit with that wow
Robert Sarver and Donald Sterling walked so other cheap owners could run.
Every year teams have made a fuss about some good team getting a completely cooked star in the buyout market and that player never matters. This new cba is solving like 10 issues that don’t actually exist. I’m pretty shocked how much nonsense made it’s way into this iteration.
I have been fairly ambivalent about most of these, but I can’t believe they stopped them picking up buyout guys. Teams like that *are* the market for buyout guys.
How in the FUCK did they get DOGGED this badly? Did they hire the NFLPA legal team?
Wow, holy shit.
Why are we punishing teams that try to win ????????
Damn so teams can’t use the taxpayer’s mid level exception or sign guys on the buyout market if they’re above that second apron.
They’re really trying to limit the big spending teams.
It’s a hard cap. Players accepted a hard cap without getting any concessions.
All (most?) these teams are owned by billionaires. If some of them don’t wanna spend to try and win punishing the ones who do seems wrong.
Punishing Lacob and Balmer for actually spending their money to win is hilarious.
Players lost this negotiation. A lot of these “fixes” feel like their trying to address things that weren’t really problems.
Silver got the easiest layup of all time to start his tenure with the Sterling situation then went on to be legitimately awful
The luxury tax meant that the salary cap basically just didn’t matter if your owner was rich enough to not give a shit so like I personally am perfectly fine with it actually mattering
I can’t be the only one who kind of likes this right? Will have to wait and see what else is in the CBA but I don’t think this is THAT bad.
Goddamn. Who is leading the negotiations? The Hornets??
ITT: basketball fans experiencing what F1 fans experienced a while back when stricter spending limits were introduced in the sport
So they’re punishing teams willing to play and rewarding the ones who don’t? Just making sure I’m comprehending this clearly.
Abolish the repeater tax in that case
This doesn’t stop teams from paying players that they drafted. There shouldn’t be any complaints because teams can keep the players they developed, they just won’t be able to add free agents
A league for incompetent cheap billionaires lol
this is owners trying to just stop buyouts completely. the buyout market never matters that much competitively
Wtff not even buyout guys? I guess Euro players are about to be trendy for contenders
I thought this would target the Warriors more. But half this sounds like they are targeting the clippers. Who we all know have not won shit.
These rules will destroy this league
I love crippling the dumbass NY/LA washed-vet-buyout concept
New CBA said “we are tired of the Warriors, foh”
No MLE and no signing buyout players for just spending on your own guys for a long time
This is a clear intention for the death of the “super team” and dynasties by driving high paid players to not be on the same team whether they’re big or small market, or they were drafted by them or not. The league wants parity so bad and don’t care how it’s done. The worst part is the players said yes
Dawg why should the league have to accommodate to cheap and broke ass owners who don’t wanna spend 🤦🏾♂️
Buyouts are broken, love this change. Bottom seeds never got the good buyout players and the good teams got even deeper for the min.
Is this an April fools joke?
The new nba will be the battle of the mid Lmao
The Owners fisted McCollum the same way he fumbled multiple 20 points leads against the Warriors 😭 what do the players even gain?
NBA is about to turn into a mid off
Small market teams with cheap ass owners winning this CBA
Veterans pretending to be washed on bad teams are in shambles right now.
I actually like this because now good team management will have to involve making more trade offs rather than always going after the most star. Because the players are guaranteed the same percentage of the revenue in both cases, players overall don’t lose any money. Now if we could get rid of max contracts then we can consistently achieve parity. These recent years have been way more fun than the Cavs-Warriors domination.
All these rules because of salty owners mad that the Warriors could sign …. Divenco?
So basically don’t be too good or you will have to get rid of all your players and tank
This sounds like players are gonna be earning a lot less money now. Even if the player’s a star, if his name isn’t Steph Curry, LeBron James, or Giannis Antetokounmpo, I doubt players will be offered those level contracts anymore to counter all these new spending provisions if they want to be on contending level teams.
No buyout pickups is crazy 💀💀
Lol all this conceded just to freely smoke weed which they can pretty much do anyway. Weak as piss from CJ and the PA.
Fans seeing this as a win because it hurts tax teams are stupid af. All it does is kill development of teams centered around their own drafted players and give cheap owners more excuses to not spend.
That’s a horrendous change. Cheap owners should not be rewarded and good front offices should not be punished. We were so good we legitimately broke the league smh.
Well fuck