Now in an age where your 7 and 8 players are 10 million guys.

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Yikes!

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Because they tend to be stupid. For a lot of people, it's seen as a violation of The Hockey Way to do anything but eat shit nonstop, and not immediately acquiescing to significant paycuts is stepping out of line. For fans of low-revenue southern teams, any sort of rising inequality that necessitates a lockout means their team is on the ass end of it and therefore support whatever Bettman wants to do to fix it for the owners, and by extension them.

As for the NBA lockout, even the diehardest of the diehards weren't guaranteed to stand by the players. I seem to remember Bill Simmons musing about how great it is that Really Smart People screw athletes in negotiations. And to think Dan Bernstein didn't know who the guy was!

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70 million for Lou Deng ?

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I have a feeling Durant will go to the Spurs. The money is pretty much the same and he has a Texas connection. He will lose millions because of taxes if he goes to the Warriors or Clippers.

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Slightly better than 80 million for Ryan Anderson. I think.

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I couldn't believe that or the Biyombo money.

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Courtney Lee to Knicks. Will that end the Wade to the Knicks talk?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Its almost like you have to divide everything by 2 to put it in perspective to past years.

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The NBA version of Little League.

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That's the point, though. No one is saying they gave Brian Scalabrine that money... but they gave the biggest contract in league history to a guy who is above average.

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And definitely not getting much better.

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I wouldn't be surprised to see Durant end up in Boston.

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Brian Cardinal loves the Memphis Grizzlies organization.

I don't even know who this is.

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I'm fine with mocking the contract. It's ridiculous. I was just pointing out it's equally ridiculous to label Mike Conley a "shit player" and throw him in the same crowd as Mozgov.

This is the post I was responding to:

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

This is getting weird.

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It really is.

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NBA would be more interesting if you had hard cap with no limit on how much you could pay a player. If you want to give Lebron 75 million of your 94.1 million in space go for it.

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This contract brings a tear to every Chicago Politician that has taken care of their kids.

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Agree they need to end the max contract crap. The truly elite players have complained about it previously. Hard cap coupled with this would serve as a market correction for what we are seeing now.

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Barnes to Mavs on max deal.

He will be back in GS unless Durant signs.

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In a surprise move, Kevin Durant has decided to jump on the bandwagon and take his talents to..










Reykjavik:

Twitter is saying Durant is choosing between GSW and OKC.

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I bet that is music to the ears of Goff and Bernstein. Nothing like providing validation for incessant Twitter talk.

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Would love to see Durant in GSW. That team just wouldn't be fair.

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Mark Cuban gonna wake up and find out he has Harrison Bryce Jordan Barnes signed for 4 years at max salary.

Celtics for Durant