Dan Gilbert and Robert Sarver killed CBA deal

[QUOTE=longtime lurker]I'm still trying to figure out where all these big market teams over the salary cap have signed stellar players just because they're a large market. LA got Ron Artest and Steve Blake??? New York were horrible for ever and they only got Amare because they had the cap room and they still overpaid for him.....Which game changer did Dallas sign? How about Boston? 2 broken down O'neals. I'm not seeing it...........[/QUOTE]

That's because it's not there. You can go up and down through all the greats in NBA history and almost all of them made their names with team that drafted them. Shaq is one of the only ones that got drafted and left his team for a larger market and got rings.

[QUOTE=Sarcastic]Actually the NBA had it's best run when it had very little parity in the 1990s with Jordan. Prior to that in the 1980s, it was the Lakers vs Celtics that brought the league up in the first place. The NBA actually had TONS of parity in the 1970s, when 8 different teams won the title. The NBA couldn't even get on live TV when it had that parity, and I would bet that most people could barely even name the teams that won in the 70s.[/QUOTE]


Thats why the league sucks after him. Fans from small market teams are already abandoning nba. Why would they support a league that doesnt give them a chance? Thats why nfl and mlb have higher revenues coz theyre fanbase is the whole country while the fanbase of nba is just the big markets. The problem with the nba is that arenas are empties. And thats because they dont have hopes for their teams.



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Carmelo Anthony was traded to NY. The Nuggets didn't have to trade him, but by most accounts they got the better end of the deal when they got to deplete NY's entire roster.

Since when is Chris Paul a Knick? That's news to me, but I am ecstatic that it finally happened. [/QUOTE]

I dont think they got the better deal. Time will tell but its not yet time to judge. Chris paul may not be a knick but it is where his interested. Did you hear him wanting to be in phoenix, san antonio,milwaukee?

[QUOTE]All the other situations you are talking about were through trades. It's also funny that you didn't bring up Barkley forcing his way out of Philadelphia (big market) to Phoenix (smaller market) in order to chase a ring. In his case it seems the player wanted to win, and market size didn't matter. He wanted the better organization that gave him a chance to win.[/QUOTE]

but still they forced to be traded there or to be drafted by the lakers so its still like free agency. And Barkley had a conflict with management. Much more funny if he remains on that team.

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Oh...the parity argument...

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But this is only one point (revenue sharing) the real problem is the soft (hard) salary cap, they can agree on everything except that it seems.