MAVS NEWS:

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Problem is they won't take the hard cap away if ratings and revenue continue to go down.  That will just go back to big markets signing all the big players and the smaller markets suffering for it.  GS being able to get KD was not good for the league.

People are not seeing the forest for the trees. The focus is on TV ratings, but NBA revenue has gone through the roof.  The NBA and its players are NOT suffering, it's just the opposite - the size of player contracts has exploded, and so have owner profits. 

With the hard caps, and all the teams spending within a certain range, we will have what we have. Limits, hard choices, and teams avoiding hard cap penalties. The end result will continue to be that all teams have a shot at good players because no team has payroll room to monopolize talent, and there will be ongoing player movement (driven BOTH by player preferences and team decision-making).

That comment in the article about the CBA being changed reactive to all this was pure ignorance since it's half a decade before any CBA change could be considered. But the mass of money everyone is getting will more likely lead to general satisfaction rather than an undercurrent for big change when we get there. And as I see it, there's 1 Draymond whining about the fact GS couldn't keep their dominant team together and be the ongoing winner, while the vast majority of the other 449 NBA players (and owners) have been glad to see it go.