NBA 2013-14 Season - Page 74

On November 26 2013 06:43 seiferoth10 wrote:
Pau is definitely gone. He might as well start looking at other teams for which city he would like to live in.

Can you picture Kobe hanging on like Stat, because I sure can't. He would never hang on for a whole season as a pie shell of himself.

On November 26 2013 06:08 Jibba wrote:
Ahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahhahahahhahahah

Kobe should've been amnestied last year and immediately re-signed for the next two years, with half of the $50 million they're spending this year going into a marketing campaign to hype his return from injury, and the other half being saved so they could get out of luxury tax hell. Instead, they're going to keep climbing that luxury tax ladder for 5 (?) straight years with increasing rates each year, while Kobe "Winning is #1" Bryant drains the team's chances of winning a bit further. Give me a break. Maybe the Lakers and Knicks management can do a 1:1 swap, so we can see who will fuck up each other's franchises more.

Yes, Kobe represents the franchise, but so did Joe Montana and cutting him loose was the correct decision. The Lakers were bidding against themselves on this one. No other team was going to sign Kobe for $15m+ coming off an injury, as his added off-the-court value is mostly only realizable for the Lakers. They had a good bit of leverage and they tossed it away. Height of stupidity. Even if you're adamant Kobe retires as a Laker and you're willing to overpay to do it, they overpaid by $10m/yr on top of the overpay!

You can't just keep pointing to that Time Warner cable contract when the repeat offender tax is ramping up. They either need to get under that threshhold for a season, or they'll have to spend increasingly larger amounts of money to keep up. And if they don't keep up, that cable contract goes to waste anyways because your nationwide base isn't tuning in for a 33 win team.

This is what a team with a good front office looks like. Look at those Duncan and Parker contracts.
http://hoopshype.com/salaries/san_antonio.htm

On November 26 2013 07:04 Elroi wrote:

what... Spurs and Rockets (the two teams with the most talent imo) are nr 19 and 25 on the list of teams that pay the most to their players. And Knicks is number two. And the rockets can still afford to pay 15 milion $ for Asik.

On November 26 2013 07:07 Jerubaal wrote:
Pretty sure most people knew that Ego was #1 in the list of priorities for Kobe. The question is whether money or winning comes next. I don't know what he would do if it was obvious he wasn't best or even second best player on the team.

@Elroi: I'm not sure what exactly you are looking at, but from my research, Spurs have the 8th largest salary this year. Rockets are #18. But you are right that they Spurs have a tremendous amount of talent and the reason for that is that they have homegrown talent on favorable contracts. They only have 5 veterans really.

On November 26 2013 07:04 Elroi wrote:

what... Spurs and Rockets (the two teams with the most talent imo) are nr 19 and 25 on the list of teams that pay the most to their players. And Knicks is number two. And the rockets can still afford to pay 15 milion $ for Asik.

On November 26 2013 07:37 Elroi wrote:
yeah i know... I was just so surprised.


I was looking at this list http://hoopshype.com/salaries.htm.

On November 26 2013 08:48 Doraemon wrote:
Kobe/Nash: $33 million.

Duncan/Parker/Kawhi/Green/Bellinelli: $32 million.

On November 26 2013 10:18 Dogfoodboy16 wrote:
Im sure all the people critizing Kobe Bryant for not taking a pay cut would gladly take a pay wage deduction in order to benifit their employeers business. What people dont realise is that Kobe is going to be taxed SIXTY PECENT by the state of California. Kobes only gonna see about 18 out of that 48 million while the government is going to get about 30 million for doing nothing. If anything, Kobe is getting robbed.

On November 26 2013 10:27 Holcan wrote:

I like how you act like those are the highest paid spurs, and not rookie/league minimums due to situations.