(10-28-2022, 08:49 PM)DrMav Wrote: I hope whatever they can come up with in the new CBA can walk back some of this player movement empowerment. Just gonna spitball some ideas.
- If a Supermax player forces his way out, contract should revert to a max.
- Maybe add the ability to pay one player on the roster whatever you want with it only counting as the max or a certain percentage of the cap with that contract also reverting to a max if they are traded.
- Need some harsh penalties for tampering, as well as for players that work to force their way out. No more of this “well since they didn’t actually say to the media they demanded a trade we can’t punish them, even though their agent is explicitly trying to make it happen.”
I’m all for players making as much money from these billionaires as possible, just do it in a way where us fans don’t get cheated.
I've also thought about something along the lines of the first two. IMO the Supermax money past the normal max should not count against the cap or luxury tax, it should solely be taking money from the owners. This also means owners could no longer hide behind the luxury tax or cap as an excuse for letting star players go.
For trades, I would say there should be two choices: either the player gives up their Supermax money and gets traded as a normal max player, OR they have to get traded for their full salary, whatever it is, and the receiving team has to match all that money and it counts against their cap, while the team trading the star gets an exception equal to the Supermax money.
Tampering is pretty much impossible to stop at this point I think. What I do think they could do is compensate teams who lose star players with a draft pick (on a sliding scale with losing a superstar giving an end-of-the-lottery pick), as long as that team had an offer on the table equal to what the leaving player took. Again, this would also remove another excuse owners use, Cuban would get no pick for Brunson unless he offered an equal contract.