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The Braves’ scam is dumber, if anything, because Uber exists now. What’s stopping someone from taking an Uber to the team-operated parking lot and walking to the stadium from there along with everyone else who parked?

It’s the natural order of things because there are too many teams and a limit on max salaries. If they contracted about 10 teams from the league and got rid of the max contract, this wouldn’t be a problem anymore. But that’s never going to happen, so this is what we have.

And the other two thirds are going to be paid to Magic City employees as child support.

Didn’t the Sixers finish under the salary floor a couple of years ago and not really have much of a penalty? If I recall correctly if a team finishes under the salary floor for a given year they just have to pay the difference between their team salary and the floor by splitting that amount up among the players on the…

Think about why in the world you would compare any other business venture to a professional sports franchise, and whether the role of labor at any other type of business is analogous at all to pro sports.

In pro sports leagues, the vast majority of the value is created by the players. The fact that revenues are split roughly 50/50 in every sports league means EVERY player is underpaid and EVERY member of management is overpaid.

If I’m not mistaken, in Canadian that celebration is called “bappin’”

The rubber duckie is a nice touch.

The relevant question shouldn’t be whether they can help your team but whether they can be the best player on a championship team. It is that kind of player for whom teams tank. Out of all those players, how many fit that description? Maybe 3 or 4, all of whom were mid lottery picks made by teams that missed the…

OK, but “success” as defined by what San Antonio does — having the greatest coach in NBA history, three future Hall of Famers on the roster and contending for a title every year — is different from the kind of “success” that Burneko would like to see the Sixers strive towards rather than tanking, which would get them…

My post was more about Burneko’s criticism of tanking as a strategy in general and the flaws inherent in the logic behind criticism of that strategy. I have no objection to criticism of the Sixers and Hinkie for their poor execution of that strategy.

10th is mid-lottery, not mid-draft. You’d be hard pressed to find a team willing to trade the #5 overall pick for an impending unrestricted free agent and trade a package including two future 1st round picks and three recent 1st round picks for another impending unrestricted free agent on the basis that those two UFAs…

Even if Harden was considered a premium player at the time — which you’re right, he wasn’t — that trade was particularly rare, because players of his caliber almost never change teams at that point in their careers. The last restricted free agent of that caliber coming off his rookie contract to change teams was Tracy…

And were able to re-sign the stars they traded for in large part because they already had a star they drafted in the lottery with whom those acquisitions wanted to play.

There are a lot of other superstars who give no thought to returning to their home town to play. LeBron and Carmelo may actually be the only ones who did. Durant has all but explicitly ruled out signing with the Wizards this summer. Having played 7 seasons in Cleveland couldn’t have hurt.

“Many of those premium players are available via free agency and trade, every single year, and they prefer going to good teams rather than bad ones.”

Wouldn’t this, in a convoluted way, increase school integration somewhat? If so, maybe not such a bad consequence.

Speaking of Atlanta, how is its weather “good” when Roswell and Marietta are “average”?

Kinda reminds me as a Hawks fan of the 4 first rounders in 1999 that they turned into Jason Terry and three generic create-a-players on NBA 2k.