Last night I solved the problem....Viva LOOO

by Dipper on Jul 3, 2011 7:11 AM EDT

I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep so I solved the problem, or at least put the players into a winnable or worst case break even mode. The answer: The LOOO. AKA, A League Of Our Own. I worked out all the details of financing, stadiums, teams, players, refs, travel, etc etc even down to the ticket takers, but it's all too lengthy to type in here. Essentially, financing would be done by the Kevin Garnets and similar team leaders with very large dollars. Each player would get a stipend (around 200K a year) , pro-rated for the length of time the LOOM existed. At the end of the year any profits would be distributed equally with a share for each player, the Coach and the "Owner/Financier". Schedules would be much more intelligent, reducing travel costs. EG: If the Boston team and the Chicago team were to play four games vs each other during the 'year', they would each play a two game series at home. Think major league baseball scheduling. Also eastern conference teams would only play western conference teams in a 'world series', again, think how baseball used to be. Again, no time to type in all the stuff but I got it all figured out (Grin).

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I love the enthusiasm

I know it would take some time to type out, but I would like to hear more as in a rationally, non greedy world, your restructuring would be the perfect idea. However we don’t live in that world.

by Cool Hand Luke 15 on Jul 3, 2011 11:52 AM EDT reply actions

Short of time, here's a quick thought tho

NBC and CBS were cut out of the national televising. National television is of course THE BIG DOG of the NBA money system. I think there is a good chance one of them would go along with a contract for the LOOO.

by Dipper on Jul 3, 2011 12:14 PM EDT reply actions

revenue sharing like in baseball would go a long, long ways. all the money from the luxury tax needs to be split up, 20% to the league and the rest to the other teams who arent paying the luxury tax. any TV deals, etc…take 20% split up for all other teams.

on top of that, players could also agree to put a steps FA scale. where players are grouped by teirs with top and bottom prices for those players. say teir 1 is $12-18m per, teir two is $8-11.99m per, etc….first 4 years of a deal 100% guarenteed, after that deals are half guareenteed. should be an injury option too where if a player hasnt played in more than 60 games in 3 season the team can void the contract.

this way the league could keep the smaller teams from losing tons of money (like they say they are), lowers the prices of players contracts and keeps them from having long guady contracts. no need to have a hard cap, why punish other teams because some teams dont want to spend? it works in baseball, i dont see the yankees, red sox, mets and dodgers winning every year.

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

im gonna be all up on you like a spider monkey!

by remembering9ergods on Jul 3, 2011 2:16 PM EDT reply actions

Also think about what the old AFL did

Remember the startup of the old American Football League? The established teams scoffed at it. Then the bidding for new draftees….then Naimath was drafted by the new AFL team, the Jets…and then several years later, the upstart Jets won the Super Bowl that the NFL was forced into.

There are a lot of ways to have a LOOO. A combination of wealthy players/explayers like Garnett, Magic Johnson, LeBum along with civilian wannabee owners could do it.

by Dipper on Jul 4, 2011 6:36 AM EDT reply actions