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(ESPN) Unlikely Chauncey Billups said he would sacrifice his $14M salary for a fair NBA CBA, like we really would believe that   (espn.go.com) divider line 23
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ChrisDe
2011-11-03 11:28:12 AM
They may make a lot of money, but they spend a lot of money.
 
merkey88
2011-11-03 11:28:17 AM
Rashard Lewis needs all $18 mil (or whatever ghastly number this/next year is worth) of his contract.
/to feed his kids
 
nunoyo
2011-11-03 11:30:26 AM
Chauncey has always been one of my favorite players. Loved him when he was at CU, loved him in the pros. When the Nuggets Thuggets traded him away, I was officially out of reasons to care about the team.
 
RogueViking
2011-11-03 11:32:51 AM
What terrifies me most is the knowledge that somewhere out there, there is a "Stephen A. Smith show." That should be a crime against humanity.
 
xtragrind
2011-11-03 11:42:22 AM
Isn't "fair" sharing the revenue losses the league is enduring?

This isn't the NFL where there is a ton of money coming in...
 
velvet_fog
2011-11-03 11:46:23 AM
Doesn't he have a family to feed?
 
IKanHazaBukkit
2011-11-03 11:50:39 AM
Chauncey already has zounds from bloated contracts... so obviously he can shake a ~14mil loss.
 
MugzyBrown
2011-11-03 11:58:23 AM
xtragrind: Isn't "fair" sharing the revenue losses the league is enduring?

This isn't the NFL where there is a ton of money coming in...

I'd say yes after the league and each team's books are audited every year by a 3rd party foresnic accountant.
 
UNC_Samurai
2011-11-03 12:04:57 PM
MugzyBrown: xtragrind: Isn't "fair" sharing the revenue losses the league is enduring?

This isn't the NFL where there is a ton of money coming in...

I'd say yes after the league and each team's books are audited every year by a 3rd party foresnic accountant.

Deadspin did it for one franchise. (new window)
 
Gosling
2011-11-03 12:45:37 PM
Well, he'll certainly be sacrificing that salary, that's for sure.
 
drewogatory
2011-11-03 12:50:43 PM
It takes money to make money. Maybe the owners do make more, but after all they are the ones who shelled out tens of millions to buy the damn franchise. If you want to make ownership money, than buy your own damn team. The farking players have invested zero farking capital in the business, yet they want more than half the profits? A restaurant is nothing without a chef, but no chef expects to make as much as the farking owner.
 
Sin_City_Superhero [TotalFark]
2011-11-03 12:56:35 PM
Assuming that the lockout continues, at what point will Stern cancel the entire season? End of December? Before then?
 
UNC_Samurai
2011-11-03 12:58:07 PM
drewogatory: It takes money to make money. Maybe the owners do make more, but after all they are the ones who shelled out tens of millions to buy the damn franchise. If you want to make ownership money, than buy your own damn team. The farking players have invested zero farking capital in the business, yet they want more than half the profits? A restaurant is nothing without a chef, but no chef expects to make as much as the farking owner.

The NBA markets itself as a collection of great players. That's who sells the tickets, the posters, everything. The NBA rules are geared towards the stars. If you don't have the elite players, then you're the CBA, and you're one bad business decision away from bankruptcy.
 
MugzyBrown
2011-11-03 01:00:48 PM
drewogatory: It takes money to make money. Maybe the owners do make more, but after all they are the ones who shelled out tens of millions to buy the damn franchise. If you want to make ownership money, than buy your own damn team. The farking players have invested zero farking capital in the business, yet they want more than half the profits? A restaurant is nothing without a chef, but no chef expects to make as much as the farking owner.

Well sports is different than real life. Super Star atheletes are irreplaceable. There are, what 5 people in the world who you could replace Lebron James with and have about the same result.

There are 1000's of chefs out there... especially because super star chefs usually own their restaurants.
 
bigmattress
2011-11-03 01:05:15 PM
MugzyBrown:
Well sports is different than real life. Super Star atheletes are irreplaceable. There are, what 5 people in the world who you could replace Lebron James with and have about the same result..

I have brought the exact same number of championships to Cleveland and Miami. I would be willing to continue doing this for the league minimum.
 
Dafatone
2011-11-03 01:52:19 PM
nunoyo: When the Nuggets Thuggets traded him away, I was officially out of reasons to care about the team.

Really?

Because the Nuggets really needed to be paying $14m a year with Ty Lawson on the bench? Not to mention netting Felton in that deal.
 
nunoyo
2011-11-03 03:57:31 PM
Dafatone: nunoyo: When the Nuggets Thuggets traded him away, I was officially out of reasons to care about the team.

Really?

Because the Nuggets really needed to be paying $14m a year with Ty Lawson on the bench? Not to mention netting Felton in that deal.

Oh I was never a Nuggets fan. I was just living in Denver and enjoyed watching the games because of Billups. That's all.
 
drewogatory
2011-11-03 04:02:12 PM
MugzyBrown: drewogatory: It takes money to make money. Maybe the owners do make more, but after all they are the ones who shelled out tens of millions to buy the damn franchise. If you want to make ownership money, than buy your own damn team. The farking players have invested zero farking capital in the business, yet they want more than half the profits? A restaurant is nothing without a chef, but no chef expects to make as much as the farking owner.

Well sports is different than real life. Super Star atheletes are irreplaceable. There are, what 5 people in the world who you could replace Lebron James with and have about the same result.

There are 1000's of chefs out there... especially because super star chefs usually own their restaurants.

Well, then the players should get together and utilize their vast talents and extensive educations to organize,fund and manage their very own league.I mean, hell, you can dribble a ball, of course you can manage a multi billion dollar conglomerate. Just look at how those wily players outfox those greedy agents at every turn and parlay their millions of dollars into massive fortunes with their incredible business and investment acumen.
 
groppet
2011-11-03 04:44:16 PM
If they want more money they should do more work. Like be ticket takers and clean the locker room and court up after the game.
 
IAmRight [TotalFark]
2011-11-03 08:44:56 PM
groppet: If they want more money they should do more work. Like be ticket takers and clean the locker room and court up after the game.

You're talking about the owners, right? The ones who are locking the players out so that they can make more money?

/I miss when owning a sports team was a dick-waving contest amongst the uber-rich instead of a business
 
rjakobi
2011-11-04 11:00:32 AM
In other news, Chauncey's former teammate Tayshaun Prince would give $15 million to get a proper first name.
 
xtragrind
2011-11-04 04:21:12 PM
UNC_Samurai: MugzyBrown: xtragrind: Isn't "fair" sharing the revenue losses the league is enduring?

This isn't the NFL where there is a ton of money coming in...

I'd say yes after the league and each team's books are audited every year by a 3rd party foresnic accountant.

Deadspin did it for one franchise. (new window)

So they speculate that the team might have made 6.6 million in a year it went to the playoffs? Doesn't seem like a lot of money for a playoff team in a large market.

Then follow it up with A real loss: "Something interesting happens in 2005," Fort says. "The team really did lose $30 million," even after you remove the phantom losses for player depreciation. (The adjustments aren't insignificant. The next year, in 2006, the team lost something south of $40 million, not the $70 million you see on the balance sheet.)
 
IAmRight [TotalFark]
2011-11-04 07:33:23 PM
xtragrind: So they speculate that the team might have made 6.6 million in a year it went to the playoffs? Doesn't seem like a lot of money for a playoff team in a large market.

Then follow it up with A real loss: "Something interesting happens in 2005," Fort says. "The team really did lose $30 million," even after you remove the phantom losses for player depreciation. (The adjustments aren't insignificant. The next year, in 2006, the team lost something south of $40 million, not the $70 million you see on the balance sheet.)

Feel free to read the WHOLE piece, which details how books are rigged so that companies can CLAIM $30+ million in losses while actually profiting. And that's without even going into the whole "one piece of the puzzle" part of it. As for the losses in '06, much of that has to do with money spent to sell Brooklyn on the idea of kicking a bunch of people out of their houses so they could have a stadium and a hell of a lot of valuable property around it, all of which makes the owners way more money than anything else.
 
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