2016 NBA Offseason Thread

[dubcity]

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Chuck is like, "damn, I gotta work another day?" lol.

[wco81]

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If LBJ plays all 3 seasons on that contract, he'll be 34 going on 35 at the end of that third season.

Does he command another max contract at that point?

Or maybe he will opt out after 2 years and try to get another 3 or 4 year deal?

If he'd done a 1+1, he could have signed a 4 or 5 year deal at a higher per year average and he'd be about 32 and a half so Cavs might still give him a 4 or 5 year deal.

He's probably already got more money than his kids and grandkids will outlive. But what was the deal, Wade was mocking him for unwilling to roam on his phone while in Europe to avoid costly roaming charges?

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If a Billion dollar Nike Contract aint enough for dude then I dont know what is.

They should just sell him some shares in the company or give him some free when he retires or something.

Underpaid maybe, but this is the dude who benefitted by getting a billion dollar deal because of basketball.

[wco81]

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Well MJ set a very high bar for accumulated wealth.

The endorsement deals he has are no doubt lucrative but with the Nike and NBA money alone, he doesn't have to drive a Kia regularly or use Samsung phones if he doesn't want to. Or maybe the people advising him on these deals wanted their cuts.

I can kind of get the thing with not roaming. He probably grew up watching his money so he's conscious of wasteful things like roaming costs. I still look at some things which I can easily afford now the same way I looked at them when I was a kid and I couldn't afford them.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Please tell me you're not serious talking about that man's "roaming charges", lol

If you are, then I have heard it all when it comes to talking about a player's finances.

he doesn't have to drive a Kia regularly

Ya'll still believe this?

[The 24th Letter]

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If a Billion dollar Nike Contract aint enough for dude then I dont know what is.

They should just sell him some shares in the company or give him some free when he retires or something.

Underpaid maybe, but this is the dude who benefitted by getting a billion dollar deal because of basketball.

Hes earned all that because of the resume he built though..he doesnt necessarily have to be satisfied because of it...

[zasbury25]

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Two articles that explain why LeBron took the 2+1 and not a 5 year max or another 1+1:

http://deadspin.com/why-lebron-james-didnt-sign-another-one-year-deal-1785195045

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2016/06/29/lebron-james-cavaliers-free-agent-contract/86533252/

Spoiler

Forget the money. The money is always going to be there. The Cavs can give him more money than any other team, and they’re always going to give him the most money they’re allowed to. Which is why he’s previously signed a series of year-to-year deals: to keep pace with the rising cap and earn the true maximum each season. While LeBron James’s new three-year, $100 million contract with Cleveland will make him, for the first time in his career, the NBA’s highest-paid player, the money is an afterthought. The length is what’s genuinely interesting, and might provide a glimpse of James’s longer-term NBA future.

The deal isn’t signed yet, but when it is it’ll functionally be a two-year, $64 million contract—the third year is a player option, and it’s a safe bet James will opt out, just as he has in his last couple “1+1" deals. But this is James’s first contract since returning to Cleveland that locks him in for multiple seasons. And that’s no accident.

The CBA is dark and full of terrors, and a few obscure clauses made it wise for James to do one last bridge deal, spanning both the final influx of big TV money into the league, and a new collective bargaining agreement. For one, a two-year deal pays him more money this season. Because the Cavs are up against the salary cap, and because they don’t possess James’s full Bird Rights, they are constrained in the size of a raise they can give him. Cleveland could have only paid James $27.5 million on a one-year deal, while a team with cap space could have given him $30.8 million. But with a two-year deal like this, those rules don’t apply and James can get the true max in Cleveland this season.

Next summer, the cap will jump, but not as high as most predicted: because of the amount of free agent spending this year, the salary cap will rise to only $102 million, rather than the projected $107 million, according to an NBA memo last month. That would put the max-salary tier at $33.5 million, which James will not be able to achieve because he’ll be locked in. But by signing this two-year deal, he’ll gain more in year one than he’ll forfeit in year two: A two-year contract will pay him $600,000 more than would a pair of one-year deals.

At this point in his career, James is maximizing his money, as he should. But he’s 31 years old and he’s starting to think about security—about one last long-term contract. Everyone assumed that would come next summer, after the second significant rise in the salary cap. But it’s not so simple. Thanks to an even more obscure CBA provision reported by USA Today. It’s a little more complicated than this, but the “over-36 rule” prevents older players from signing true max deals. It exists to prevent teams from circumventing the cap by signing players who will retire before the deal’s up, and that’s obviously not LeBron, but he’ll be over 36 by the end of a five-year deal, so it applies to him nonetheless.

The solution? Get that clause out of the CBA. If either the league or the NBPA opts out by December 15th, the CBA will be terminated at the end of this season. That’s expected. There’s no telling how long negotiations on the next CBA will take, but now James won’t have to worry about free agency decisions in what could potentially be a very unsettled summer. And when it’s all worked out, and maybe the over-36 rule is off the books (James is the VP of the union, as it happens)? The TV money will be in, there’ll be no restrictions on the length of the deal he can sign, and James will be ready to ink one last big contract that should take him through age 38.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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It was always going to make more sense for player of his caliber to do these 1+1/2+1 deals. He's one of the very few players in the league that can/will get a max regardless of length(pause).

The man isn't a dummy when it comes to this.

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Hes earned all that because of the resume he built though..he doesnt necessarily have to be satisfied because of it...

He shouldn't but the notion that he's underpaid isn't true.

I'm a technical sense the game has netted him wealthy for generations

[dsallupinyaarea]

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I don't understand what the Nike money has to do with the Cavs money. Nike can pay him whatever they want and he can still be underpaid by the Cavs. The Cavs labor costs shouldn't be subsidized by Nike.

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[King_B_Mack]

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Guess the Olympics were all the Lakers needed to see. Laker fans, your thoughts? Pack, yours?






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[Vni]

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He can play. Definately in for two years with a team option.

I read it'd be for the vet min. Seems like a done deal.

Chinese paper say 1 year 1.14M. Low risk move.

[Ragnar53]

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That and it looks like he's bulked up over the years to be able to play a stretch 5.

They'd need it with Lance and Randle clogging up the paint.

[cam21224]

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From what I seen in summer league Lance has put some work into his shot and looks much improved.

Either way I don't see Lance & Randle spending much time on the court together.

As for Yin if it works it works if it doesn't when he can just get rid of him.

[Caveman24]

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My Niners just signed Christan Ponder and the Lakers signed Yi. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.