Can You Buy An NBA Championship? 

I replayed that part like 10 times. Great scripting for this video, like all others.

That quote is gold.

@@modolief gave me chills

Dont be surprised if someone on espn steals that golden quote

So I guess Magic is the best ever. He turned Worthy and Scott into stars while dragging a washed Kareem to more rings.

All Time RU-vidr

I came down here to look for this comment

I watched the other half of the video because of your comment.

Marvel will probably sue this dude sooner or later

I miss the trap sax

Same bro the team is a perpetual mess

Well you need good players to pay them a lot of money

Curry has had easy street to 3 chips. The 2 KD ones have asterisks for KD AND EVERYONE ELSE. The 2015 one was because of injury. Yes, all teams have injuries, but not usually, or ever, to their 2nd and 3rd best players.

Fan of the Knicks?... Why do you do that to yourself...

As a long time Knicks fan (longer than the dubs, what can you say? NBA jam made the Knicks dope as a kid) I concur, so many giggles. Also, see Lakers since like 2010 on tryin to.

Best edit in the whole thing 😂

😂😂😂 was looking for this comment

I think that's what happens when you don't default to creating videos everyday like other creators. Gives him time to actually think stuff through. It's honestly refreshing.

which is why you need to hit the "like" button 3 times to show your love !!! :)

here is an interesting take. 5 years from now we may have 5 active players in the top 10 all time points leaders, i don't think that has ever happened before so if it does it will be unique.

D Rider

yup. this is the way

@@twincitydezray explain how Shawn.

@@kingtchalla5868 It's one thing to compliment, but to go out of your way to talk about how many views he's gonna get is a D rider, I'm sorry

@@twincitydezray that's not dickriding by any means, he's just spitting facts... jimmy does pull a mill minimum on every vid he puts out💀

Also, the Dubs were just crowned the most valuable NBA team in the league at $7 billion. Lacob bought the team for less than $500 million if I remember correctly. First time it hasn't been Lakers or Knicks in forever. That is all Steph. Can you imagine? Steph will probably make maybe $300-400 million in his entire NBA career in salary. Steph gifted Lacob 7 BILLION DOLLARS, 15 times what he spent!? If you are Lacob, you pay Green, you pay Thompson, and you spend whatever you have to spend through the rest of Steph's prime until the fucking wheels fall off.

@@johnjperricone7856 i say it’s worth it

@@tavi7181 absolutely worth it and deserved

On top of that you gotta think about how much money they actually make off Steph’s merch sales, Steph’s marketability etc

Just like Kobe's last contract: It was "Thank you, for your service to our franchise".

Probably because his monetization is so insane, the front offices can't afford him.

I'm not, he's good but the league has money to out pay colleges and hire people with PhD's in this kind of shit. Not a knock on jimmy, his statistical breakdowns are my favorite part of this channel but when the money is high so are the qualifications required.

@@KermRiv exactly they'll get guys from MIT to do their analytics

You're joking right

most of his graphs are slightly misleading as they dont start from 0 making then look more insane than they are. if the average good player has 20-30 in a given stat, so you start your graph from 20 and the best ever is 35 that 35 looks insane. but if you show the whole graph from 0, it still looks pretty good but not that good

As a big Barca fan, im glad that you mentioned them

You right the heat have had a great culture these past few years just not enough given to the team to really get them over that hump of winning the cavs are building a beautiful dynasty and culture as we speak post lebron the grizzlies seem like they have a culture but idk I feel like people can just leave they don’t feel as tightly constructed as the warriors the dynasty spurs or even the current cavs I feel like that will be there downfall

Keeping it on the football talk, look at how PSG has been doing in the quest for a Champions League and have an answer as to whether or not money gets you what you want in sports

@@matheusmarinho8280 man city too

Yeah look at football psg has all of the amazing players mbappe messi neymar donnoruma marqunious hakimi di maria veratti but the couldnt make it because the managers and the oil owners didn't understand how a team works it matters if these players can play together like example you named barca look at barca 2014 they knew how to play together

I got into watching European football from watching guys like Jimmy it's cool how someone can make something so interesting

I’m sure that he makes more money being independent on RU-vid

@@jewmail5395 hell no lmao

@@0rangecray0n what kind channels are like his for european football its a sport im interested in id like if u shared :)

@@piplupdabest he's probably making BANK, you underestimate what youtubers make off of sponsorships

Couldn't agree more. Steph is a humble guy.

nah with all these 40 pieces and crazy performances i thought he was gonna upload

I’m no longer supportting the nba so much money practically wasted so much could be done with America problems more than America tbh

Hell no

True that glad tho foe shure dat be legit home boy

@@Kneegrow3000 First off you almost made no sense. And secondly, why are you spending money on basketball? Betting thousands and so on.

Probably you are right, but those factors are just the effect of winning games and winning a championship.

@@dxbgaming4813 not excactly, actualy they are about popularity. most of the time is the same thing but some players are more markatable while they contribute to team wins less than others that keep a low profile and they are not divas.

Besides that, teams will pay more a player who can carry them even if it's not better than other players in superteams for example. Sometimes your only star will get more than a teams 3rd star even if both win equally or it the other is actually more valuble. And another thing is the pro name. If you playing like 10 years in the league and you are a star even if you didn't win a chip or mvp - fmvp award will get more than "a 2 years in" player with a chip or even mvp. Cause its fact that the long that you are playing the more your contract grows. But what you said its the rule, not going to argue that, just naming some exceptions to make it more clear.

I like this, hopefully he does something like this one day.

Do vids like this

This is the best line of this entire video!

Yup and that's why luxury taxes for drafted players shouldn't exist

Major point

dude's abusing the linear regression

thats was great edit i loled too :D

In terms of impact to teammates, I could argue that Curry is second only to MJ.

@@jdapaul1351 ur forgetting chris paul made deandre jordan a all nba player

@@duncan2560 that's one player impacted by CP3. How about leading teammates to championships?

@@jdapaul1351 MJ impacted his teammates in what way? Horace, Pip n Rodmanm shit even Harper were nice before and after Mike. Kerr always the same role

@@Heatlifer77 stepped up their game? Stats don't show the whole story, but their testimonies tell their part, if you watched The Last Dance. I think it was Will Perdue or Judd Buechler that said something like if they weren't teammates with MJ, they wouldn't have improved their game.

i remember duncan took paycuts to win. not sure about hakeem.

Exactly.Curry has had easy street to 3 chips. The 2 KD ones have asterisks for KD AND EVERYONE ELSE. The 2015 one was because of injury. Yes, all teams have injuries, but not usually, or ever, to their 2nd and 3rd best players.

@@diatribeeverything You not gonna talk about 2022 or are you in the past?

@@diatribeeverything so the 2019 chip has an asterisk too? Since the Warriors 2nd and 3rd best players were injured too. 🧐

@@diatribeeverything you mean Lebron who assembled a superstar team and earn his chips. That is a real buying a chips and it is a fact.

It's not really bullet proof. On the chart with the value of the players, he put the line at a point where it could suit his narrative and not at the intersection of the lowest salary and lowest WS. And he forgot that the salary of a player is not only correlated to his performance on court but also on how much money he brings to the franchise. Steph's salary for exemple reflects his performances and how much he helps selling jerseys, tickets to games, etc.

Great observation, kudos to the owner 👊👏. Spread the wealth, dont get stingy 😜

@@ArtMagik Steph is worth a lot more, like triple of Klay and Draymond 🤷🏽‍♂️

Golden State is now worth $7 billion, Lacob is getting more than a just return on his payroll expenditures. The Warriors took in $765 million and $206 million in operating income last year alone.

@@ahmetturgut6131 Well, I'm not in secret of the Warriors offices, so I don't know how much he brings to the table. But considering the rules (Salary cap and Luxury tax) that are currently on the NBA, he is paid on what he's worth under those rules.

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It's not just that they all turned out good, they develop their players unlike other teams

The salary cap and CBA with the extension rules is already setup to where this isn’t even really possible. There’s a reason you don’t see huge free agency periods anymore with absolute superstars becoming UFA and shopping around and changing teams. The money is SOOOO huge to stay with your team it is just too big of an incentive to stay. You can’t buy a Steph Curry or a Giannis or a Luka etc. You have to draft them. Even the second tier guys like a Zach LaVine. He wasn’t going to leave CHI this summer because they could pay him WAY more money than anyone else, and obviously they did. The only way really is to trade for a disgruntled star, and even that is tough. KD wanted out but he’s too good and he is under contract because of course he took the max with BKN. You can maybe trade for a Harden if he really makes a stink and has baggage, maybe can get a Kyrie bc he has baggage. But you’re not buying a Steph or Giannis or Luka. The whole being able to buy wins thing is a farce. You need to be able to start well and make savvy moves as a front office to even put yourself in position to have amazing players to pay. Jimmy did this video because the NBA is proposing an ACTUAL hard cap. There already a hard cap you can trigger by using the full MLE, BAE, doing a sign and trade blah blah. But I’m talking an actual number you cannot pass no matter what. The NBA basically is saying it’s not fair GSW and teams like LAC can afford to pay so much in luxury tax and they need to be limited or there won’t be any parity. They’re dead wrong and there’s some ulterior motive. Plus GSW has some of the least rich owners in the league. DEN is owned by a multi billionaire and is cutting corners (they rly didn’t have to move Monte Morris and they could really use him now, or some good backup PG) to pay less tax. Obviously GSW is in a good market and they make some of the highest revenue in the league…but they’re basically in the red anyway. Meanwhile non tax teams are getting $10, $15M checks bc they get 50% of the total tax penalties the tax teams pay. There are probably going to be 10 teams that end up paying the tax this season. Might be 9 but let’s use 10 for simplicity. They’re going to pay some obscene amount of luxury tax, let’s say $600M. 50% of that goes to the NBA. So there’s $300M left. The other $300M gets split between the 20 non tax paying teams. So those 20 teams will all receive a $15M check at the end of the year of pure profit. The NBA proposal is a joke, and it’s a pure non starter for the NBPA. Surely the NBA knows this. I think they’re using it as a bargaining chip. Like oh you guys won’t do this, well then at least do this (insert way less extreme thing that benefits the owners) bc that’s how bargaining works.

@@BOnYTB Yea, however if you look at the Warriors roster and remove Wiggins, look there who’s not drafted. Only Ty Jerome and JaMychal Green, who joined this season. I feel like they should remove all fees and taxes and limits and whatnot for drafted players signing extensions for their original reans

@@NiX_xD donte ty jamychal anthony lamb

@@glubzyoutube4374 All of which joined this season as rotational players. Like if none of them and Andrew Wiggins didn’t play, they’d still be good enough to like get a top four seed and make it to the second round or conference finals or even the championship with Steph just giving it his all and developing their players.

Yeah. He was the 5th most paid player on the Warriors.

Yea they just gotta get their defense back. What the heck happened to it over the offseason ???LOL

Wiggins will lead that team as a 32 year old vet. I feel he’ll even be a better all around player by then

I don't see what's funny here. I hate to kill the fun but....I don't think Jimmy meant it like that. Covid protocols (which Kyrie didn't fully appreciate) were unforseen for the common folk at least. Did you foresee a state in a first world country to deny an athlete the chance to perform because he had reservations about a non-fully tested procedure? Meanwhile allowing fans entry without verification on said procedure?

Your pfp is fire 🔥🔥🏐

@@mikeyx1999 thanks

Yes please!! I always wondered the same

would you rather have him start though

You up next man! Stay blessed 🙏

I'm from Argentina, the best example in the world to the pain money brings in soccer, so I feel you

Mbappe makes 100 millions euros this year that's 2 Steph Curry

Yeah he knows this vid was made after the warriors won

Legendary RU-vidr, I still remember the old song he’d play just after the intro

Poor sportsmanship

Yeah I don't see a problem with that

@@chrisslol6376 ?

fr it's not like they're straight up paying the most for star free agents. The entire roster has been drafted excluding Wiggins and a few role players. And they were traded for, not bought

theres no need for a rule change, its good that if you draft good players you can keep them. It woukd be worse if you could just sign any star

My top 3: Kobe, Jordan, lebron My top 3 by stats: lebron, Jordan, kobe

Everyone always argues the top 3. The rest is in parentheses