That kills me when people start talking about the salaries of ball players back then. $800,000.00 was worth a lot of money. Probably more than the NBA average at that time. If prime James Worthy was playing now he'd probably be paid either a MAX deal or close to a MAX deal.
I remember someone on the radio explaining how the Celtics and Lakers of the 80's would have problems winning the championships they won if they were playing under the CBA rules of today. Think about it, Bird, McHale and Parish played together for 10+ years.All hall of fame players. In this era, you can barely get TWO HOF’ers to play together for that long of a time e.i. Shaq and Kobe. The last two HOF’ers to play together for more than 10+ years was Stockton and Malone and I really don’t consider them part of this era. Financially, it would have been real difficult for teams like the Celtics and Lakers to dominate with an economic system like today in place.