Salary cap is the root cause of collusion

[TheOne]

With the current salary cap rule, a player can occupy up to 35% of a team's cap space. This gives teams room to sign multiple super stars. So we see so many collisions like the most recent and infamous Durant case.

A simple fix of this issue is to increase the max salary to 50%. By doing this each team can only have one real super star. Unless they are willing to give up big money which is less likely because too much money to give up. So real stars will distribute evenly in the league. Fake stars won't get paid ridiculously.

What do you say?

[illias]

i see where youre coming from but what if your superstar whos getting 50% of sal cap gets injured? they wont have a chance to make the playoffs

[Spurs m8]

Thats the gamble...

[bk33]

size of the cap is not the problem, neither the 35%

problem is the cap is spking to the TV-deal money but player contracts haven't all caught up yet, so we now have post-TV cap and pre-TV contracts, All-stars like Curry and Lowry making 12M instead of 25-30M, role players like Darren Collison, Morris brothers making 5-7M instead of 10-15M.

Since the issue is deemed temporary, cap spikes will tail off in a couple years, around the same time all pre-TV contracts will have expired, eventually everything will be back to normal. Nothing needs to be done now, just ride out the transition.

[Im Still Ballin]

Greed is a good thing. Once you start playing with 6+ digits, you guys will understand...

[Haymaker]

Well, Superteams bring more ratings/revenue so I could see why the league did it. Stern wanted a quasi-socialist league, Silvers seems to be a trickle-down economics guy.

[pmj]

I don't think the max salary is the issue necessarily, but I think one problem is the max salary is not the max salary for everyone, it escalates by years in the league maxing out at 35%. Max salary should be the same for everyone immediately following the rookie contract imo. Frankly, great players are usually great by their 5th year on anyways, look at all the great players today and their numbers in year 5/6/7 - these are the years they are MOST underpaid.

You have Curry and Klay only making $16 and $12 respectively, when they should get $25 million+ each. Same with the Heat Big 3 taking around $15 each when they could have had $20 at the time if a 35% max was available. Yes they cut a million off their salaries but it could have been cutting $5 million off each year, a much bigger difference. If all maxes were 35% and you had 3 max players, everyone could only get their full contract if the team had bird rights, and there would never be cap space for anyone else. They would have to improve via draft picks or trades, and the teams with multiple max players would hit the tax restrictions much quicker.