How Sport Is An Equal Opportunity For All Teams

The NBA’s salary cap varies from year to year based off the leagues revenue under their CBA, short for collective bargaining agreement. A new CBA was just reached this December for another & years. For example, in 2014 the NBA inked a new deal with ABC/ESPN and Turner that will keep the league on those broadcasters' channels through 2025 for the cool price of $2.67 billion per year. Just because of that deal once it kicked in the salary cap increased by 30 million dollars. In collective bargaining agreement, you get the rules and regulations for contracts, salary caps, and anything else related to that. The NBA operates under a soft cap but certain components of the NBA's system function as a hard cap under specific circumstances. A soft cap gives teams a chance to retain the players they have and give them more money instead of them leaving for a bigger market

My first reason I think NBA players should make that much is because kids and families in some places need supplies to live. Families like that should get money that goes to NBA players they should get less and them families should get more so they could live. Them families starve all day and night and get cold because NBA players get all of the money.

Having salary caps for sports teams is an easy way to create equal opportunity for every team within a league. Without salary caps, the wealthiest teams pay for the

What’s more intriguing is the fact that some question whether NBA players are overpaid. Nathan (22) indicated that overpayment in the NBA is problematic. Statistically some players are overpaid based on poor or sub-par performance. These players are highly sought after because they are proficient in one aspect of their game such as three point shooting or they may be a defensive force. However, these same specialized players may be a major liability in other areas i.e., the three point shooter may be a poor defender and the defensive force may be a poor free throw shooter. Whatever the issue, overpayment in the NBA is a concern. The reason for payment is to fairly compensate a player for his play. However, in the NBA it seems as if compensation is a reward for past performance and anticipated or expected future performance. However, past performance and expected performance may not be good indicators of fair compensation. NBA owners and general managers often over spend for a player that they feel will meet and immediate

There are five major sports leagues in the United States; Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, the National Basketball Association (which has what is known as a “soft salary cap), the National Football League, and the National Hockey League. Of these five, only baseball lacks what is known as a salary cap. A salary cap is the upper limit of the combined salaries for a team’s players. In the other four sports I mentioned, having to work within the boundaries of a salary cap is a balancing act, to gain an advantage at one position requires you to be at a disadvantage at another position. For example, to have a top tier quarterback in the NFL like Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers and the large salary they command, a team might lack the funds to sign a top tier linebacker or cornerback. With Major League Baseball lacking a salary cap, this balancing act vanishes and teams could sign anyone and everyone they wished. This causes a competitive imbalance that is hurting the sport. Too often we see the same teams making the playoffs and winning championships like the San

He gets paid $7 million dollars, not the highest on the team. Eric Gordon, who is nowhere near as good as Anthony Davis gets paid $15 million dollars. (Smith, Steven A. "No Matter How Much They Make, The Best Players In The NBA Are Vastly Underpaid." FiveThirtyEight. 2015. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.)I think the best player on every team should be paid the most. Not the third or fourth best on every team should be paid the most. Tom Brady, Super Bowl 49 MVP. Got paid less than his Tight end who hasn't won an award in his career yet when Tom Brady has won 5 awards. 3 Super bowl MVP and 2 League MVP. (Smith, Steven A. "No Matter How Much They Make, The Best Players In The NBA Are Vastly Underpaid." FiveThirtyEight. 2015. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.) If you have won your team 3 super bowls, you should be paid the most. The person who has won 1 award. Aaron Rodgers the MVP of the National Football league in 2014 was getting paid $11 million dollars. Randall Cobb a 2nd string wide receiver got paid $20 million dollars. (Smith, Steven A. "No Matter How Much They Make, The Best Players In The NBA Are Vastly Underpaid." FiveThirtyEight. 2015. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.) If you are a second string wide receiver is getting paid more than your MVP quarterback. Than that is bad for your

This is an amazing argument against mine. Although this is true, there is a way around this. Not every single athlete needs to be paid the same. Do you see pro teams paying all of their athletes the same? Didn’t think so.

These 7 players were the best players in their era and probably was the best in their conference they showed their fans a little something in their days but now the 2000 players are showing their fans something. Magic Johnson made over $2.5 million in the 80’s. In the 80’s they didn't make as much money then they do today. But I don't get that Magic was one of the best players in the league and he still didn't get as much at Lebron James.("History." Basketball Forum). Lebron James made over $18 million in the 2000’s. Today, LeBron made more money than Magic Johnson in 1980’s("History." Forbes. N.p., n.d.

It is also interesting to examine the roots of free agency, which in the beginning was a good idea. In December 1975, Peter Seitz, at the time baseball’s arbitrator supported a grievance that two players had filed (Chass, 2000, par. 4). He ruled that when a player’s contract to a team expired, the player was free to choose from all interested teams. In theory, this is a good idea that is fair for players. They weren’t property of their original teams after contracts expired and were free to pursue other options, just as in the same way a businessman could look for a new job. However, there was no system in place to stop a bidding war between teams if the money was available. It also failed to take in to account the human ego. If a player sees a person with similar statistics getting paid more, then that player will demand the same amount of money, and this cycle continues endlessly.

To the people that believe this, I must remind them of Major League Baseball and the situation that they faced just a few years back. First, players' salaries skyrocketed to obscene levels, alienating their average fan. Next, the players couldn't decide how to divide up their millions. Finally, they quit playing the game and their fans quit caring about Major League Baseball. Does any of this sound familiar? This is exactly what's happening in the NBA right now. If it happened to the American Pastime it can, and certainly will, happen to the NBA. Yet people, in spite of the lower ticket prices provided by a hard salary cap, aren't convinced that a hard salary cap is a good idea. They feel that players

Free agents demand for very high compensation and this takes away major chunk of available salary. Every team has to come up with good balance of rookies and veterans to meet salary cap.

For example: Matthew Stafford is paid over 200 million and he's not even that good of a quarterback in the NFL . There are also a lot of other players in football and basketball. There should not be a 100 million dollar contracts on average. There should be 10 to 30 million dollar contracts on average. There is also people like Tom Brady he should have a lesser contract but he still is a very good quarterback in the NFL , he was even pretty good as a second string quarterback at the university of Michigan.

In each of the major sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA), free agency is usually a period of big spending, crazy contracts and fresh looks to some teams. With the drastic rise in the salary cap, NBA free agency has been no different this summer. The contracts NBA players have received, compared to those given to some of the star players in other major sports, have been amazing.

If I could pay someone $25 million a year to get him/her on my team and generate $30 million, why not hire that player? The salary cap for the NFL is $102.5 million per team, and we currently have 32 teams, so we the public are paying 3.28 billion to those teams. Currently America is in a 11 trillion dollar debt, if athletes could get paid $150,000/year then we could save 1 billion dollars a year. The monetary worth of athletes exceeds the value that any one individual is actually worth. League officials should be using salary caps, negotiations, and legal tactics. Athletes' salaries are in increasing problem for the economy of our modern world. Although the sports have their own equal distributions, the overwhelming salaries of the leagues' highest paid players have made the average of salaries higher and higher each year.

The NBA is one of the United States’ favorite sports leagues, with each team averaging 100 million dollars of income each year before expenses.