That being said I think Seth Curry should get a bonus just for being a Curry.

That’s not an either/or though (unless they’re on the same team, I guess). The point is that the players (collectively and individually) are paid based on the value they bring to the league, and capping that value at an arbitrary maximum (for laborers, specifically, and in particular in an industry that is purely…

No one’s saying they should remove the ability to collectively bargain-- just that the CBA should have different, and more player-centric, provisions.

The players don’t own the teams, or the broadcast rights, or the stadiums, or...

The earnings are a share of the total earnings of the league, and cumulatively are always less than half of NBA profits, so I’m not exactly sure what you think this means. Except, I guess, that the players shouldn’t be able to benefit commensurate to their value to the league.

It’s not hard for me. Work on it, you’ll get there.

But there’s no justification for a cap on individual salaries; it should just be on cumulative team salary.

Just make the penalty purely on exceeding the cumulative salary cap, and remove any limits or penalties on individual salaries, and distribute the penalty equally among the other teams, or pro rata among the other teams based on revenue or salary or some formula like that. That puts all the onus on ownership and none…

The 6th paragraph of this is about you. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/case-glass-steagall-act-ganesh-sitaraman

The Isner-Mahut match lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes across 2 days. The first four sets took less than three hours in total; the last set took 8 hours and 11 minutes (beating, on it’s own, the previous singles match length record), taking up *72% of total match time.*

One of the things that ostensibly makes tennis almost unique among major sports is the idea that the player (or in the case of doubles, team) must problem-solve on their own, in real time, under the pressure of the match. And given the sheer amount of pressure on the players, this makes their attempts to do so (and…

many people need this book (which is a great read!) https://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences/dp/0809058405

He’s still making indecent amounts of money for phoning it in, so there might be another angle on it.

Yeah he was quite the character. Tbh I was kind of fond of him in a weird way; he was so unhinged.

Except the guy he was choking was Koellerer, one of the most aggressive, distasteful players ever to grace the sport. Koellerer was ultimately permanently banned for match-fixing, but along the way he managed to call a Brazilian player a monkey, spit on his hand before shaking at the net, punch some people,…

Karma!

It was puer mayhem.

The man was king of straight-up trying to hit his opponents. Unapologetically. 

It’s possible; it’s certainly what Sloane thought. It’s also possible that it’s not that at all. The universe is rich in possibility.