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Should the nba have a hard salary cap?

Should the nba have a hard salary cap?. Is stacking teams the only way to win?. Introduction.

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Should the nba have a hard salary cap?

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  1. Should the nba have a hard salary cap? Is stacking teams the only way to win?

  2. Introduction • The NBA each year gives all 30 teams a certain amount of money they can spend on contracts for players year. That number varies each year. Teams can release players with bigger contracts to open up salary cap space. The nba salary cap has gone up every year except 2009-2010.

  3. NBA Salary Cap last 10 years

  4. Stacking teams, Unfair? Or Strategy? • Some teams with higher salaries take advantage of the higher salary caps to sign big names to their teams. One of the most infamous deals in NBA history happened in the summer of 2010 when the Miami Heat exceeded the salary cap to sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh to go along with Dwayne Wade to form the big 3 in Miami. Yet the commissioner of the NBA David Stern denied the trade of sending Chris Paul to the Lakers to team up with Kobe Bryant. One team can but the other cant?

  5. Can you buy Championships?

  6. Soft Salary Cap vs Hard Salary Cap • A soft Salary Cap allows teams to exceed the salary cap of that year as well as the tax limit witch allows teams to sign more big contract players. A hard Salary Cap would deny teams that right and only spend what the league cap is that year. The MLB and NFL both have hard salary caps. If the NBA continues to have a soft cap, then the NBA would continue to have only a handful of teams winning each year, but if a hard cap is established then that could open more teams with a chance to win. Its not guaranteed but percentage wise and fan bases would grow by seeing teams like Minnesota or Philadelphia a chance to play well and go deeper in the playoffs. Witch could increase tv revenue.

  7. NBA Salaries for 2013-2014 • The Brooklyn Nets signed Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry from the Boston Celtics, giving them the Highest Salary in the NBA with over 100 million dollars. The Philadelphia 76ers have the lowest with 45 million dollars. To an average person 45 million dollars is set for life, but to an NBA team its dealing with the bottom of the barrel of players.

  8. Player Salaries 2013-2014 • This year the highest paid player is Kobe Bryant at 30 million. Of the top 10 highest the Heat have 3 of the 10. Of those top 10, only 3 have stayed with the team who they were drafted by: Dirk Nowitzkifrom Dallas, Kobe Bryant from the Lakers, and Dwayne Wade of the Heat. Witch shows that team loyalty is not on the list of priority's for most players. Out of the 360+ players in the NBA only 6 have won a title playing for one team. The league minimum for a rookie is 490,00$ that number increases as the player plays more years, after 10 years his minimum is 1.3 million dollars.

  9. Conclusion • So to put it in to perspective, if the NBA continues to have a soft salary cap then teams are going to continue to stack their teams, and only a handful of teams are going to be able to do that. However if the NBA installs a hard cap then every team will have the same limit when it comes to signing players, yes their will be a slim difference for teams with more money but only a difference of maybe 10 million, instead of 50 million. This does not mean that those big name players will go to those other teams but it does give more teams to offer bigger contracts, witch entitles more money witch what every NBA player wants.

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