NBA labor talks broke down on October 20; No new meeting scheduled

[QUOTE=Sarcastic]Salary cap would do nothing to stop the stars from coalescing towards NY, LA, and Chicago. They would just drop every player needed to be under the cap when the big time free agents hit the market. The top 10 players in the NBA would all be a Knick, Laker, or Bull. GUARANTEED.[/QUOTE]

Then why doesn't that happen in the NFL?

[QUOTE=DFish]Then why doesn't that happen in the NFL?[/QUOTE]

Started this year with the Eagles. Also you don't win in the NFL by stacking superstars. It's more important to have decent pieces everywhere than just a few high paid superstars. Washington has tried that strategy too with no success. In the NBA the superstar is much more valuable than the next 11 players. There is only position in football that has that type of importance, and no one is going to overpay to stack quarterbacks.

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[QUOTE=knickscity]Who'd be your choice? LeBron?

Fish is respected by pretty much every NBA player, that's why he is there.[/QUOTE]

Are you kidding me? JJ Reddick's eyes light up when he sees Fisher guarding him.

The big ti,e players seem to think they don't need the owners but it would be interesting just how well a league or competition organized by player would fare. As much as people love the top marquee players and match ups I think they prefer the idea of their team winning the LOB/all the things that goes with that type of competition level. With all that being said it seems to me at least especially in recent years that the NBA has the most fans who are player first fans which is far less common in other North American sports.

Have contracts based on production. The NBA needs to be more like the NFL in that contracts are based on what the player does. That way you won't have a guy play hard one year for a nice contract and become a lazy ass afterwards. I'm tired of this crap. If a player is not producing..he's out. Someone else will be happy to take his spot. The players need to wake up. The NBA needs to be fixed. What benefits the league will benefit the players in the long run. Stop being so freaking greedy..you will still make millions.

[QUOTE=senelcoolidge]Have contracts based on production. The NBA needs to be more like the NFL in that contracts are based on what the player does. That way you won't have a guy play hard one year for a nice contract and become a lazy ass afterwards. I'm tired of this crap. If a player is not producing..he's out. Someone else will be happy to take his spot. The players need to wake up. The NBA needs to be fixed. What benefits the league will benefit the players in the long run. Stop being so freaking greedy..you will still make millions.[/QUOTE]

Great idea, but that would lead to selfish individual basketball. You can't compare the NFL to the NBA, they are two different sports with different structures it makes no sense. Right now teams can place performance clauses is contracts, have team options, partial guarantees. They have this all available right now, they just choose not to use them