The New Rule TERRIFYING NBA Teams 

As an NHL and NBA fan, damn. I stand by my take that in any cap world, drafted and home grown talent should have some cap relief effect. If you drafted and trained a player (like JT) you should be rewarded for it, not penalized.

This is punishment for the last decade of player empowerment

Dynasties are not bad.... You needed those kinds of teams for other teams to be smarter.

CJ McCollum gets a lot of criticism for being the player's union president who oversaw this Collective Bargaining Agreement but its the Governors (owners) who forced it through. They wanted to penalize the likes of Steve Ballmer and Joe Lacob for being big spenders and they got it.

I think the problem with the payrolls is the max salary. Take Phoenix, their 3 main players, Booker, Durant and Beal are being paid $150 million because they are getting the max salary. I think teams are going to take a hard look at offering max contracts to top talent next year. They take too much of the payroll and there are going to be teams that will not take those players on in free agency.

You can already see who it actually hurts: mid level players Every year, all 30 teams would use their mid level exception on a four year deal. Now, half the teams aren't using it at all, instead just signing minimum deals only.

They should give exceptions for teams to players who has only been in one team since their rookie year and call it loyalty exception. At least allow a player to retire in a team where they started. It’s a rare thing and gives more identity to a brand and foster team loyalty for players and fans

There's an elephant in the room with this new rule: there's more and more talent in the NBA. This rule will penalize players in the long run because there will be fewer and fewer points of fall for max contracts.

NBA should do something to make homegrown talents an exception to money rules

It's going to take away from some exciting times... The buyout market was FUN to see... I hope they have a way to amend this moving forward

This will weed out which organizations really have their stuff together. If you wanna win multiple titles, your front office, coaching staff & roster have to be on point & on the same page.

Excellent video. Thank you

All sports = cap rules to promote competitive balance and prevent overspending by rich teams MLB = already stacked team can sign superstar for near billion dollars and delay payments to allow signing even more players

4:09 ‼️ Great point. This definitely helps the owners save money far more than it creates parity in the league.

The fact that teams that draft well can't keep their stars is bull. That was probably slipped in there by the OKC owner from the backlash he got for the Harden move

Imagine the 90s bulls if they won their second threepeat, then couldn't put together a good team for the next 30 years .... oh wait ...

Love the vid and the channel. Questions about the cut. You look like an Eastern European carpenter

People are too anxious to put an ''end'' to superteams (even though all superteams since the Warriors failed catastrophically), that I think they are being overall shortsighted here: yes, its true that teams who spend big to attract stars will be hampered... but so will teams that *actually draft well*. The OKC Thunder right now, for example, has a bounty of young talent... what happens when they all go into their actual big contracts? Shai and Chet are no-brainers, but so is JDub. You'd also want to keep Jay Will, Lu Dort, and I haven't even reached other young guys who showed very good potential, like Aaron Wiggins and Cason Wallace. A team like the Celtics already was fearful of looking forward knowing they had 2 Max players in their roster (and had to capitalize before the second apron hit), what is OKC gonna do having 3 of them AND other guys? Its an even worse situation then they were when they *let go of fucking James Harden*. The idea is good, but they NEED to tinker with it a bit more, specially when it comes to players drafted by the team. As it is its only gonna encourage teams to find THE guy and give up instantly on their other drafted players.

Or maybe max contracts should only go to the few very best players instead of every single all star in the league. Brunson seems to care more about keeping a roster together than killing the Knicks by demanding a max deal.

Ya know that picture of Patrick from SpongeBob with sparks flying from his head? That's me right now lol

Finally, I can just send this video to people instead of explaining it for 15 minutes 😂

I want more unpredictability. dynasties not needed anymore.

im happy no teams can just easily buy a championship.

I think these are a little harsh. I get that there is alot of star movement and team ups nowadays, hell look at all the all star duos we've seen over the last decade but this basically gives teams a 2-3 year window once they get good or even great which doesn't happen for a lot of team frequently if ever since most of the championships are with LAL and BOS. (Those teams have had multiple periods of dominance where are with the bulls and spurs it was really just one player or a train of players)

It's going to almost force star players to take less than their market value like Brunson just did

Goodbye Big 3s. Even Big 2s to an extent. Now it'll be Big 1 and 1/2s 🤣🤣

There should have been a couple seasons grace period before the 2nd apron started. For example, Nuggets and Bucks constructed their roster under the old rules. On top of that, look at Jalen Brunson’s new contract. That gives the Knicks a huge advantage going forward. But the freezing pick could lead to some screwball situations.

True NBA fans love league parity. But the real money is in super teams. All the way back to the showtime lakers up to the warriors.

They need to add a clause that reduces the amount that a contract counts towards the cap space for home drafted players, maybe 80%. This would give teams that draft well a leg up over the competition

Didn't answer the biggest question..why is this called an apron. How did the definition of an apron grow to cover this. Aprons were garments worn to protect clothes from food splatter while cooking, then part of an airport tarmac where planes congregate and now all of a sudden an apron is an organisations salary threshold limit.. How did an apron come to have these varied uses??

This new CBA is so dumb, what if you are a team like OKC or Houston who actually drafted a lot of talented players and will be penalized tryna sign those players and/or even lose them because they simply just can’t afford to pay them all.

I’m sure a few owners have already thought about relaxing the rules for players who never leave the team that drafted them. What I’m curious about is why they couldn’t agree on this. A bad team like Detroit could potentially keep all its talent, not pay the tax, and just keep shuffling coaches until one sticks. And on the other end, you could have a Warriors team that are just able to keep their big 3 until retirement for that fairytale ending.

Since KG and Ray Allen went to the Celtics I believe in ‘08, what’s kept the league growing is roster turnover. But let me be specific: SUPERSTAR roster turnover. No one cares about Bruce brown and KCP leaving Denver except Nuggets fans and hardcores. Once you have NBA finals featuring the Pacers and Kings followed by the Thunder and some other small market team no one cares about and NBA finals ratings go down the drain, the NBA will change this real quick. I liked the escalating luxury tax. Even Balmer was going to get sick of spending $200M in luxury taxes for a bunch of first round exit bums. This is just ridiculous. All it does it help owners spend less with an excuse and make good guys who are team players like Brunson take significantly less than someone with comparable talent who has no title aspirations just wants to make as much money as possible. We as fans often forget we care a lot more about winning than most of the players. That’s not talked about nearly enough but it’s a stone cold fact

Damn man who cut that hair? Nice vid tho

Ratings are decrease even more

Salary Caps are un-american

Good observations, nice one

I like to see team identity above all else. There is none in the last decade of player empowerment. Owners want to win for the team and the city they represents. Players wants to win bags. The reason I admire Pop with the Spurs and Pat Riley with the Heat.

NBA just ruined the league with these aprons

No more superteams in a nutshell 😂

So these 'super smart' billionaires got rules to keep them from making continuous stupid basketball decisions. Remember this folks next time a billionaire tries to talk and act like they are an expert in some other field or issue.

Only punishments I see here that are bad is anything that punishes teams for drafting too well and developing their own players too well. Anything having to do with that should be rewarded

Homegrown guys should have a discount on the aprons impact. It’s unfair either with the good organizations and with the players.

I feel like you should be able to go over for your own drafted players

New CBA RULES TRASH 💯

Relationships today are like the NBA's current CBA. I currently have a room exemption worth $8.30

They’re going to need a dynasty or two to bridge interest from the LeBron Curry era to the Wemby era now that those guys are either aging and/or their teams are degraded. Boston and OKC et al being rewarded for drafting their guys would give people new stars to latch onto (Tatum, Brown, Shai… Nuggets should be rewarded for Jokic not punished… also sustained loyalty even if you didn’t draft them but you resuscitated/elevated their career ie Pacers stealing Haliburton and turning him into a superstar

I like the new CBA! 👍🏽

nice haircut joe

When a team goes over the luxury tax who is responsible for that bill

Protect the home grown

To answer that last question, you only need to turn to the big daddy in the room, the NFL. As early as 1960, when he became commissioner, Rozelle saw the need for parity. Having all your teams having a good shot at winning (over time) is a good thing. Having a reverse draft--where losing teams picked before winning teams was one of them. But the big innovation was revenue sharing. This allowed teams in smaller markets to compete on an even footing with teams from New York, Chicago, and L.A. You only have to see baseball's continuing struggle with this--where teams like the Dodgers and Yankees practically buy pennants--to understand. The NBA did a brilliant thing when David Stern took over by agreeing to guarantee the players 55% of the gross revenues. This saved the league and forced it to also come to terms with limiting what teams could do with salaries. While it's been tweaked in the decades since (decades!), the basic premise remains: establish a minimum and a maximum, and then let teams compete within that. And let's face it, the best-run franchises in basketball do most of the winning. If you could buy your way to a championship based on your market, the Knicks and the Nets would be right up there with the Lakers and the Celtics in terms of championships.

It’s not affecting Cleveland. They are planning to give Evan mobley the max . Now they have three max in Mitchell , garland , and Mobley . Garland and Mobley don’t deserve the max but got it anyway.

This is so these players dont get paid more than they are worth ... Zion, Kawhi, Kuzma, Dame, PG, Embiid, the list goes on

lol, the owners asked for this. They wanted protection from themselves.

Who else is sadistically waiting for the first team to hit it

Clipper’s definitely should of gave PG that 4th year Especially after buying that new huge stadium

They are trying to avoid another Golden State run with 4 hall-of-farmers, including a pirate(*Cough* KD *COUGH*)😅

Soo im kinda of curious and based on current trends we could see the salary cap rise to 200-300 mil. If star players take a bit less than the max say 75 mil per year theytr still getting paid but the mid level guys can also get paid way more.

Steve Ballmer has a lot of money but not a lot of sense when it comes to bringing the clippers a championship.

I guess the Celtics didn’t get this memo . 🤔

They should just have hard cap like the NFL.

As non american After watching this video Now im 95% more confused

Joe Lacob embarassed the rest of the league for the last decade to the point they had to change the game bc of it. Joey Lightyears really valued winning over all else and put his money where his moith is, and the rest of the owners said stop, youre making us look bad. Im just glad we were blessed with witnessing the last true dynasty first hand 🙏

if they were so terrified they wouldn't be signing ridiculous max contracts to fringe all-star players 😂😂😂

Fan Favorites getting superstar Max Deals i love this for the NBA

So where does the taxes go

Finally…. You got a decent haircut bro.

This helps save lovey but ruins the game how are people supposed to get invested in teams now that good rosters won’t be dominant for that long…..

Why did the players agree to this?

I love the fact the Celtics have the most titles without ever getting any high priced free agents. I remember when we got a sniff of KDs presence and we got all excited, even though he didn't come to Boston. Every Celtics title was built with shrewd drafts, home grown players and smart trades. And yet, Boston will have to deal with more inept NBA governance. Won't matter. LA, New York, Golden State, Miami can all try to draw big names. The C's will win with Stevens...

Problem is they are overpaying these plastic players. The owners need to take back their league.

Also might players gonna take a lot of pay cut

I'm in favor of the CBA primarily because each team will have an opportunity to begin the season as a hopeful playoff team increasing local attendance and it will cause marginal veteran players to have higher value later in their careers as teams look to maximize talent and price The CBA does hurt small market teams that draft well and do player development but that is counterbalanced by the larger markets being penalized for hitting the second apron too often. The league does better for a casual fandom when there are dynasties and marketable rivalries but I'm in favor of league attempting to get as many fanbases involved through the in season tournament and the play in teams for the final two playoff spots

This makes me wonder why are the salary caps different in the NFL and in the NBA? What if the NBA had a HARD salary cap like in the NFL? NFL has a HARD salary cap and the league still generates millions of dollars in views and revenue, this means the NBA should copy the NFL and have a HARD salary cap as well.

Player empowerment and superteams murdered basketball. Too little, too late. Fans are fed up with players, and the league as a whole.

No one team should be bigger then the NBA which is why this got put in place.

If they are going to place a this restriction, at least raise the salary cap to give teams more flexibility

Superteams didn't grow the League. Players with great stories of triumph over adversary grew the league.

Lol when Tatum and Jailin opt out for more money. They will be busting the salary cap on their own. Also lol if one of them opts out and the Celts say adios

Why not just have a hard cap and stop making life so confusing

This is a punishment for the player empowerment moment… It punishes the likes of OKC, Memphis, Minnesota who are developing their youth because of these apron restrictions and also, this is going to test players going forward… I’m watching the Knicks closely cause if they make the conference finals after Brunson taking less… players might have to take less to cheat the system once again

There is one thing more boring than "parity in the league", and it is FORCED parity. This is gonna be annoying to watch

The new CBA is similar to the NFL hard cap. They basically don't want another superteam to happen to the NBA and be able to keep a competitive balance for the agency market. Honestly, I like the new rules bc this will stop superteams from happening so much.

This sounds like a horrible idea

Queue the Rain Man meme 🫤

As a dude that loves seeing trades and stuff like that, this is great but man this is horrible for small teams that drafted well in the past.

Trading draft picks is worse than cryptocurrency. They're leveraging middle school student athletes for millions of dollars 😂

where does the tax money go?

wait... is this the same host we see but more up close and zoomed in?

They still gonna Rig Games FOR The Lakers. Have been for 24 years

What?

Meanwhile homeless people struggle and need healthcare.

Of cuz this won’t apply to Lebron team or wherever he will play

You have to continue to draft well or you will only have about a 3 year window because you will keep losing players when it’s time to pay them . This new CBA is the best thing to happen to my OKC Thunder. We also have 3 years left of Shai being on the best value contract in the NBA .

Parity is always better because more teams are in on the hunt making more fans caring about their local teams than 1-3 super teams always winning.

After 45 years as a Fan and Rrally Hate the NBA for RiggingcTitles for Kobe the Sex Offender. Take Portland and Sacramento Title Chances Away done by David Syern for Kobe.

WTF is that haircut?!!!

This is all bron-wade-bosh fault, people are done with superteams,at least the mavericks spanked those idiots.Since lebron decision players have turned into one year ring chasers

Players need to start taking a page out of Duncan, Steph, Brady, and Brunson’s playbook. If you wanna keep your team together and go on a run, take a pay cut. You can’t sign a 300+ mil contract and then complain about team building. Kobe’s biggest contract was 7 years 136 mil. These players can leave some on the table to make sure they’re surrounded by adequate talent. If they play their cards right, endorsements from winning will make up the difference.