I'm 28, been following american sports since day one, and STILL i have zero fucking clue why salary cap exists...

i'm 28, been following american sports since day one, and STILL i have zero fucking clue why salary cap exists. the older i get the less sense it makes, it's literal communism and distribution of wealth. look, there's just NO FUCKING WAY the lakers, knicks, celtic, cowboys etc. must use the same budget as some shithole teams from arizona, minnesota or ohio. there's just no logical justification for this. fucking jews. is it theeir biggest trick in sports business? the lakers and knicks are able to offer i.e. curry 70-80 millions per season but are not allowed due to jewry. so much for your free market capitalism, yanks. #jewmerica

Uh, that's an anti-semitic image.

L E G A L M O N O P O L Y

1.) If the ultra rich organizations were allowed to spend big, the super rich organizations would leave the competition, which would jeopardize the monopoly.

2.) It limits athlete negotiating power by stacking the deck in favor of owners and investors. Incomes increase ever year but player allocations stay the same for four or five years at a time, thus allowing more profit for the Suits

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MLB doesn't have a cap per say, you make say 30 million a week but pay upwards to 20 million a a week to the team then you got to spend wisely because the extra 10 goes towards staff and maintenance

The Americans are obsessed with forced parity in their leagues. They think it's good but really it hurts the sport.

And they still end up with Patriotswinlol and Warriorswinlol

telecoms and isps work together to maximize profits. sports teams are trying to do the same.

it was created when small-market owners joined large-market owners in a profit-seeking single entity.

The correct answer

(((owners))) say it helps small market teams compete but they really just want to keep wages down

>If the ultra rich organizations were allowed to spend big, the super rich organizations would leave the competition, which would jeopardize the monopoly.

this is whats happened to MLB

It keeps the league competitive. Would you really want the shit soccer deals with in American sports? It's been the same teams since the dawn of the league.

???

Incompetence. Just like the Cubs were for 100 years. Margin of error for a small market team is razor thin and they often have to mortgage their future at the perfect time (see:KC Royals). The big teams just have to stop being retarded.

They're going to win this year though

We hate socialism for the poor but love it for the rich.

Parity in the NBA without a salary cap would be insanely bad. The overall entertainment value would go to trash.

The Knicks, Nets, etc have been so bad for so long and it doesn't even matter because they still make so much fucking money. Take away the cap and they would hog all the good players and literally suffocate the league

>he's not rich and never ever will be nor will any of his descendents but he still defends the rich and their rigged system on a Kazakhstani pole-dancing forum

the alternative is worse

but even with "parity" there are still only two teams who can win it since all the superstars are blobing onto the dubs or the cavs

That's because NBA basketball today isn't a team sport

>Cavs

Nope, their era is over. Even then it only lasted three seasons and it was entirely due to Lebron, not any other free agent stars joining.

>Dubs

Dubs are supremely elite, but they were already elite before KD. Even their dream team will collapse because of the...salary cap

So explain to me again why you'd want a literal two team La Liga

who is gonna win the east next? the fucking Grizzlies?

Well they are in the West, but the correct answer is the fucking Celtics or Wizards

>He wants to turn the NBA into the Scottish League

>if I don't defend the rich I could end up having to share my tractor and have free healthcare

wow much scary

very socialized

Major League Baseball fortunately seems to be the outlier

The Yankees and dodgers spend gorillions but haven't made the WS in at least 8 years

A top three spending team has made the WS like 50% of the time.

>using baseball memeoffs as an example
Baseball playoffs are 8-10 ball lotteries this doesn't prove anything. Once they started spending a shitload they made the playoffs every single year. You can pop up for a year or two on a low budget in baseball but you have zero chance of sustained success. The only team that can even loosely meet this definition the last 5 years are the Indians.

The warriors drafted insanely good and the Cavs have a once a generation player in a sport where one player can be more valuable than in any other. There's only so much you can do keep it from being top-heavy without being outright unfair.

the dodgers spending gorillions is more to tell players to fuck off that were picked up stupidly by the previous regime
their actual salary is only 1 gorillion

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

You also forgot the Royals

nope...

/thread...wow...so very thread.

They made 2 world series in 2 years, didnt make the playoffs 30 years before that and are 138-138 the last 2 years. Like I said, they popped up for a couple years and back to mediocrity they go.

Maybe that was Durant's plan all along. By taking 20% of what he's worth and completely destroying the half-assed attempt at forced parity, they may just give up on the salary cap system altogether

>doesn't count!!!

Outstanding argument

It's to protect the owners from spending too much

Watching the same teams win every year is shit.

Dude you proved his point shut up

What the actual fuck are you talking about retard? You're conflating sports and capitalism of an entire society into 1 thing. Please stop posting

ignoring the yankees I think its more even

The league could be forced to remove the salary cap if there were competitors outside of the NBA who began to buy off our talent the way China and PSG have spent enormous sums to attract athletes who would never consider going there otherwise.
Until a European league becomes financially strong enough to compete with the NBA, there is no reason for the system to change.