SilasCoade

30 teams each offering max deals to two guys means 60 guys make 2/3 of the money, while 300 guys are splitting the other 1/3. On average that's going to mean stars make as much as the entire rest of the roster, and in practice means they're making 40+ times the guys on the minimum. I'm about narrowing that gap.

I'm totally in favor of players in general making more. And I don't actually care about the absolute number. So if Brown gets $60M/year, good for him. My only issue is in the context of team and league management. If you have a salary cap but designate 60% of that cap to 2 players the majority of players end up getting screwed. Raise the % of revenue given to players, raise the minimum salaries, cap the owners take from league-wide TV deals and ticket sales but let them take whatever they want from team-oriented (i.e., not player specific) merchandise and local TV deals. And FWIW I know there is no universe in which owners will agree to something like that. They have almost all the leverage and therefore can dictate the terms. I'm strictly dreaming about my God-Emperor status.

You're making an assumption that every above replacement level player deserves a max contract here. In the universe where I'm God-Emperor of the NBA there are like 6 guys eligible for a max contract and that max is no more than 10x the vet minimum per year. There would also be no limit on duration of guaranteed deals. So guys who want to prioritize stability and security could sign for 10 years at 70% of the max and still come out ahead without worrying about injuries derailing their next contract. All salaries would also be relative to the current cap for a given year, so a max contract isn't $40M/yr when signed and $40M/yr when the cap has grown and the max would be $60M/yr. The max is something like X % of the cap with a minimum floor of Y millions per year.

I can't believe these kinds of deals are still getting done. That's Bradley Beal level bad for sure.

That was so good I might sign up for Netflix again just to watch the whole thing.

It's weird that you don't think carelessly endangering toddlers or children being terrified to go to school is subverting the very fabric that holds out country together. Shitty country if that's ok.

Yes?

No problem just started going through this thread and every post you made kind of sucked.

Why only with that conditional statement? His actions directly led to the near death and permanent mutilation of a fucking toddler. Let him swing.

"It was not anything that was done politically." Has there ever been a more brazen lie?

The OG Dune books are all great, though some better than others. Been years since I read them though. I don't recommend any of his other stuff though. I read a book he wrote with his kid outside of the Dune universe where these aliens came to Earth and got high on basil. It was just a 300 page allegory of teenagers smoking weed. Terrible.

Did I forget to stipulate it was the jt method?

https://www.landofbasketball.com/player_comparison/nikola_jokic_vs_shaquille_oneal.htm That comparison is very basic but it's interesting to look at reg season vs playoffs for the two of them. Jokic goes nuts in the playoffs. And you can mitigate the late career effect on Shaq by looking at the best season and best playoffs numbers. https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Nikola-Jokic/Comparison/49571/Shaquille-ONeal/755 PER comparison shows Jokic's last 3 seasons top Shaq's best season. https://stathead.com/basketball/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&seasons_type=perchoice&player_id1=onealsh01&p1yrfrom=1993&p1yrto=2000&player_id2=jokicni01&p2yrfrom=2016&p2yrto=2023 See image highlight the advanced metrics demonstrating higher WS/48min on lower USG% for Jokic over the same ages. The WS/48 differential goes up for the playoffs as Jokic's USG goes up. There's also the fact that in the modern game Jokic is an actual threat from 3 and can actually hit a free throw. EDIT: Re: Dirk vs KD, I was probably wrong for that but the advanced stats suggest it's probably a closer call than most would expect. I limited to the years before KDs injury and the same time span for Dirk. https://stathead.com/basketball/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&seasons_type=perchoice&player_id1=nowitdi01&p1yrfrom=1999&p1yrto=2010&player_id2=duranke01&p2yrfrom=2008&p2yrto=2019 Dirk Nowitzki (1999-2010) vs. Kevin Durant (2008-2019): Advanced Regular Season Playoffs Rk Player Age From To G GS MP PER TS% ORB% TRB% AST% STL% BLK% TOV% USG% OWS DWS WS WS/48 OBPM DBPM BPM VORP 1 Kevin Durant 19-30 2007-08 2018-19 849 849 31305 25.2 .613 2.3 10.7 19.6 1.5 2.3 12.4 30.1 101.0 40.8 141.7 .217 6.0 0.7 6.7 69.0 2 Dirk Nowitzki 20-31 1998-99 2009-10 920 895 33731 23.8 .580 3.9 13.1 13.0 1.3 2.0 8.9 27.0 107.0 43.2 150.2 .214 4.9 0.5 5.4 62.7

Jokic absolutely over Shaq. That SF group was really tough to split, in part b/c they don't seem to be similar players outside of the spot they occupy on the roster chart. But sure, flip KD and Dirk, doesn't change the overall ranking.

You might be right. Let's do position by position: PG: 3, 4, 1, 2 SG: 3, 1, ... , 4/2 SF: 2, 4, 3, 1 [very narrow spread here] PF: 2, ... , 3, 1/4 C : 1, 4/3, 2 Team 1: (3+2+4+3+1) = 13 Team 2: (4+3+1+1+3) = 12 Team 3: (1+1+3+2+2) = 9 Team 4: (2+3+2+3+2) = 12 Heat I know I'm going to catch: Joker == Hakeem, Giannis > Malone/KG, KD as worst SF. No matter what team 3 is the clear best.

I don't rate Wade or Malone (or AI for that matter) with these other dudes. But even if we say MJ would have trouble guarding DWade (he wouldn't) the reverse is doubly true. And if Magic is guarding Steph, who is Steph going to guard? That's easy money for Magic. Replace Wade with Pippen and Malone with Barkley and team 4 could match team 3.

Nah. Barcelona never happened? Giannis is definitely a plus defender. Meh. Wha? Team 4 has two guys barely on the level of every other player in the discussion. Team 3 Team 1/Team 2 Team 4 The bottom line is almost always the team with Mike is going to win. EDIT The only downside of team 3 is the guys around Joker aren't really the ideal fits to benefit from his passing and orchestrating the offense. Swap him and Cap and both teams are better.

I'm on the fence on this issue. On the one hand no one really needs to have a gun. On the other hand the people that really feel they need to have a gun are exactly the people who should have their guns forcibly removed from them. Fuck guns.

That is a bold, bold statement.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38020423/sources-suns-add-bol-bol-trade-cameron-payne-get-picks Bol Bol must be a tremendous asshole or something because he can't stick with a team despite tremendous skill and size. Some of those highlights are ridiculous for a 7 foot dude.

You can never have too many shooters.

See this is the issue with identity politics. You hear something like CRT, which is nothing more than a particular lens through which history and public policy can be evaluated. Some inevitable conclusions from such an analysis are that American cultural, financial, and legal systems include or are even largely based upon components that disadvantage people of color generally and black people in particular. As someone presenting here as a white male conservative of at least moderate affluence, you have inherently benefited from such systems. So when you hear a criticism of American society you interpret as a personal attack. "If the system that benefits me is racist then you're saying I'm racist." Which is not really logical. A passenger train hits a guy crossing the tracks. The railway might be responsible for his death but the passengers are not. But if a passenger interprets this event as "he was probably drunk or suicidal. Society is better off without him, no way we need to slow down the train at that intersection or introduce other safeguards that will slow my commute." Well, that passenger is a piece of human shit utterly devoid of empathy. So no one wants you to say you hate black people. But your insistence that a discussion about the inherent disadvantages faced by black people in this country in an academic setting subject to rigorous, thoughtful analysis is somehow a threat to the youth of America is not only insane but utterly devoid of empathy, exposing you as a piece of human shit.

I stand by my words.

Poe is the one that fast-forwarded through Last of Us because Ron Swanson kissed another guy. is this real?