So the Lakers bought another championship…

Money helps , but it isnt the end all and be all. Look at the Knicks payroll they have the forth highest and didnt come close to the playoffs. The Mavs didnt get out of the second round and they have the third highest

Jeff, Mark, and the other commentator didn’t even complain or point out the foul differential it wasn’t even close to the 02 playoffs when Bill Walton said the kings were getting ripped

jazzin how is that any different than any other league? lol you need to spend money to win games because you need the best players. yankees, red sox, real madrid, and barcelona. thats how sports work. you need to win to get money though.

jazzin how is that any different than any other league? lol you need to spend money to win games because you need the best players. yankees, red sox, real madrid, and barcelona. thats how sports work. you need to win to get money though.

NY has a high payroll cause they took on every expiring contract they could. DOY! Mavs didn’t get out of the second round because the trade was a mid-season trade and teams need more time to gel. While money of course isn’t the “end all be all” that someone said. It makes it a hell of a lot easier to win. Of course, the Lakers get credit for spending their money wisely but at the end of the day when you can go over the cap into Luxury tax as much as L.A. you’re in a very advantageous position.

Lakers had the same people pretty much from their title run. Team chemistry is key as well. Also Lakers had to pay to keep their players. There are team over the cap that are not winning. I would rather if you did pay it was for quality player and not scrubs who put up good numbers on bad teams.

even if all the teams had the resources to spend as much as the lakers and celtics why would any free agent choose memphis,toronto, even cleveland over LA and boston. players go to these cities because they want to be part of theyr great history. do you think lebron will sing in minnesota or with the clippers this summer?they have money to spend, but he wont sign there because he wants to go to a big city. even if all the teams had the same money tere are only a handful of players worth the money. not every team can sign a great free agent there just arent that many great players.

New CBA coming soon

toronto is a big city

Toronto is one of the biggest cities in North America. We have 5 million people and its pretty much a smaller New York.

A concrete cap would not be good for the league. The revenue generating abilities of the Lakers, Knicks, and Bulls are able to make double that of Milwaukee and Memphis. This is not the NFL where the bulk of the revenues (broadcasting money) are split evenly because not every game is on national tv. The big markets have boat loads of cash, and many of the small markets struggle when they don’t have winners that fill the stadium. The soft cap and tax acts as a secondary stream of revenue sharing from the big to small markets. Going to a hard cap would simple guarantee profits for the rich teams and lower the overall level of spending. You’d have what the NFL has where the Redskins can make hundreds of millions in profit because the revenues they get from the gate dwarf almost everyone else. Up until this past year, they were restricted to how much they could spend on players. Their revenues would indicate that they could spend significantly more than the cap, but because they can’t Dan Snyder simply pockets the cash. The NBA should want to avoid this, but not be so free market that it results in an EPL or MLB model where Chelsea/ManU/New York/Boston are able to simply buy anyone and everyone. The soft cap affords the big revenue teams to spend more (sometimes effectively, sometimes not) but the additional money gets recirculated in the system because of the tax. It stinks for small market teams when the Lakers can buy Pau Gasol, but remember that the best player on that team was essentially drafted by the Lakers. Pierce, Rondo, Perkins, and Davis were drafted by the Celtics. It isn’t like these were teams of All-Star mercenaries. The league should want to avoid that, but at the same time I think the hard cap would just be awful for the product.

LOL…I see a hater named JazzinSLC.

They don’t have the highest payroll. There the most over the cap. They added Ron Artest for the MLE. That’s it. They were pretty much a grown team here.

How did they steal it? It’s not LA’s fault they got Gasol for pretty much Gasol and a 1st round pick.

Resigning Odom under salary cap rules? They bought that?

Adding Artest for the MLE? They cheated and bought that?

Yea, sounds like a fan who got beaten by LA.

jazz no one tells the owners no to go over the Capp they just decide not to so who’s fault is that? Obviously you’re the minority as far as being tired of seeing two teams win 30titles since man people still watch. If you’re truely tired of it then stop watching.

“Most owners don’t have the money to spend as much as the Lakers or Celtics, even if they wanted to.”

Yea they do, they are cheap if they don’t. All NBA Owners are Billionaires. Most GM want to win but Owners want to keep money at the same time. Teams like Boston, New York, Dallas and Los Angeles pay whatever the price is to win. I cannot fault those teams at all.

Donald Sterling is a perfect example