2024 NBA offseason thread

Its interesting to see how much the team's value has gone up, because in inflation-adjusted dollars, that 360m purchase prices in 2002 would be 628m and change in today's dollars.

 

The way this Bronny James thing has played out you'd almost think he was a make-a-wish kid. Fun fact, when/if he scores his first point, LeBron and Bronny will be the all-time father-son scoring duo in League history.

 

There is not a paucity of articles about how things went bad between Klay and the Warriors.

 

As a fanboi, I am very grateful for the joys that Klay brought these past 13 years, but I'm not going to cry for him or worry about whatever treatment he got. If Willie, Kareem, Johnny U, Joe Montana, and Rick Barry can get traded/let go, I'm not sweating that someone else is going to wear "different laundry".

 

Its nuts how well the Warriors replaced Thompson. Hield is a poor man's Thompson and at less than half the price and younger.

 

Hield will be 32 and has never been close to the defender Thompson was. He's had a weird career, which shows up in his comparables list on B-R.com - Rodney Hood, Nate Robinson, Evan Fournier, Brian Shaw and Larry Miller (60s and 70s) player are the Top 5. Hield can shoot, but not quite as well as you'd think, and he just does not get to the free throw line. (Career rate of 1.8 FTA per 36.) The decline has been sharper for Thompson, so maybe Hield will be better this coming year than him, but there isn't a ton of difference between them at this point.

 

Not to mention that the new ownership are the ones that are going to have to deal with all the second-apron stuff.

 

NBA offseason: What is the CBA’s second apron? And how does it limit high-spending teams?

My head started to hurt reading this.

 

It is incredibly punitive. The owners and players agreed to it though.

 

It would be interesting to see how big a gap there is between the "richest" NBA teams and "least rich." The TV money is split evenly, so we are talking about ticket sales, sponsorships and local broadcasting (which I really wonder about considering regional cable's woes.)

 

Given the number of games, the ticket sales have to be a major factor. Same with the networks like MSG.

 

Its not that hard (not trying to criticize), they used awful word though "apron"? Should have just simplified it, "First Spending Line/Amount", go over first limit, here's what happens; "Second Line/Limit", go past this line, this is what happens.

People know what a spending line/limit is. You put "apron" out there and they envision some cook or some landing strip and get confused. But, probably frankly what the NBA/Players wanted, to make it confusion for the fans, rather than simple.