2025-2026 NBA Season Thread: Wolves Died • Page 36

Discussion in 'Sports Forum' started by Drew Beringer, Jun 24, 2025.

  1. Collins is better
     
  2. Sean Murphy

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    i will literally never understand NBA salary cap stuff
     
  3. Jim Harden lobs to Collins is fun y’all. I’m sorry
     
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  4. MidDave

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    It's genuinely impossible. The NFL's is nonsense and conuluted as all hell, and like 10000000% easier to follow.
     
  5. I think a team is hard capped and then Bobby Marks is like “well they can absorb 8.5 million of the contract through the MDMA THC LMFAO TPE exception. Pretty standard workings here”


    Alright man
     
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  7. cj

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  8. Sean Murphy

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    [​IMG]
     
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  9. tvck

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    hell yeah rich white nerds
     
  10. fowruok

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    Harden/Beal/Kawhi/Collins/Zubac would be a pretty solid starting lineup. Obviously, health-dependent.
     
  11. morgantayler

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    lol of course. I’m gonna miss him on the team, obviously a great locker room presence but he meant a lot to them on that run to the Finals two years ago. Unfortunate about what was going on with his dad last year that he wasn’t able to get on the court much, but understandable that he wanted to be there for him when he did finally pass.

     
  12. “obviously health dependent” while mentioning those names is hilarious
     
  13. Argus

    Of sugar and ice I am made

    One of the silliest parts of the CBA is that players are incentivized to stay with the team that drafted them bc they can get more money, but those teams take a bigger hit on their cap sheet, thereby making it harder to assemble a quality roster around that homegrown star. Also, teams can still do exactly what the CBA was created to stop, so long as their owners are cool with paying the tax (and suffering the consequences should they invoke repeater status).

    A hard cap number that no one is allowed to exceed would make more sense if they're truly trying to facilitate parity.
     
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  14. MidDave

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    I mean, the CBA is stupid, but it's definitely achieved the goal of parity.
     
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  15. morgantayler

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  16. tvck

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    absolutely brutal
     
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  17. cj

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    lowest opening win total in 25 years lmao.

     
  18. Sean Murphy

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    is he saying this so they can trigger some kind of medical insurance or exemption for him for salary cap reasons? it doesnt seem odd to just get out in front of it and say this but also feels weird when you know hali's attitude would be that he wants to get back out there as soon as possible.
     
  19. MidDave

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    This is probably why you eliminate all hope right away before he pushes too hard and re-aggrivates it lol
     
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  20. if this were the nfl thread five posters would be in a race to quote this with “exempt deez” but i won’t be posting that in here
     
  21. Sean Murphy

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    this would have been a great post and would have gotten many, many likes
     
  22. marsupial jones

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    I imagine no one would actually do it, but like, can a free agent or someone who is bought out not agree to a contract for like 1 year for 2 million bucks? The salary has to start at some number based on six trillion different things due to the CBA?
     
  23. Sean Murphy

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    there is a minimum required salary in the nba that is dictated by number of years experience
     
  24. marsupial jones

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    interesting. Podcasts talk about how LeBron could have opted out of his LA contract and “signed wherever he wanted” and people say the same thing about Dame next year which implies they decide how much they could sign for but that doesn’t seem to be the case so idk why that’s mentioned like that when there are minimums and players would need to get moved to make it work
     
  25. Sean Murphy

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    well, on that topic, i also must also maintain that