To Draft or Not To Draft......

[Nconroe]

Happy New Year, in October looks like I suggested they ought to get new CBA done before it expires pretty shortly, avoid lockout, have a regular offseason schedule, but did not suggest continue existing CBA, atleast that is what I think I meant to say, maybe. Not sure if we will hear many details on discussion, when. It is going slower than I had hoped.

on those two topics -

on rookie salaries,expecially first round picks, and first 10 picks really, it seems almost everyone including owners and players think this needs to be fixed, so, expect it will.

on salary distribution, hopefully you realize statistics are just numbers. hard to feel sorry for either side on this money they make part, right. Owners are not hurting right now are they, most are billionaires. if they hurt, they can sell to another billionaire who is happily waiting to buy.

Me personally, if you said I only got 10% of my annual billion dollars instead of 40% of my annual billion, I'd be ok. but of course, if you said I get 10% of one million I would not be so happy. Current TV deals makes the money real funny.

And depends on what your other expenses are and if they are fixed or float based on total income and if talking gross or net, and when you calculate effects answer you get. I'll let those guys dig in the books pretty deep to be fair with percent they end up at.

I think on the salary distribution, guaranteed salary to contracts, ie. making it a little harder to cut someone after one day of a long contract and pay very little might be a bigger contract issue, something not maybe as extreme as NBA but something a little more fair for players.