NBA Salary Cap

The NBA Should Enforce a Hard Salary Cap      How many of you sports fans out there are sick of paying twenty-five dollars for a lousy seat at an NBA game? How many of you are sick of seeing the same teams in the finals every year? I'm sure there are thousands of you out there that feel this way, as do I. The way we can fix these problems is to demand that the NBA enforce a hard salary cap. A hard salary cap would lower ticket prices, allow for more teams to be more competitive and eliminate

Angeles Lakers franchise had an estimated $293 million dollars in the NBA fiscal financial year. However, Forbes also reported that the Los Angeles Lakers spent just $89 million dollars in player contracts, which is just one million shy from the NBA’s max allowed in the Salary Cap system (Forbes). Should there be an overall cap on how much a NBA team can spend on a player contract? This will be the main topic in the coming NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement talks between the Player’s Union and the

players. As the value of the players have risen, the salary cap has followed. Although the salary cap has risen, star players continue to feel like they are worth more on the free market than they are being paid. LeBron James, for example, is invaluable to the NBA’s bottom line. Yet, because of the salary cap, he gets paid around the same as Grizzly’s guard Mike Conley who is not considered a top-five point guard in the NBA. Although the NBA salary cap is in-place to promote competitive balance between

Final of Wage Equity: The evolution of the Salary Cap in the NBA Wages equity has been an issue for a long time, it is still an issue these days, salaries must be defined by your education, your training skills, your ability and even more. NBA athletes are earning millions of dollars to play the sports that they have been playing since their young ages for most of them. They are earning millions of dollars to entertain the demand. They have for goal to keep the demand at a high rate. In

Traditionally men have dominated the world of sports however in recent year’s women’s sports have become popular and with their new found popularity, women’s sports have evolved into marketable leagues of their own. Although women’s sports took a huge leap forward, women players still don’t receive the same financial compensation for playing the same sports in the same arenas as their male counterparts. In Purse Snatching by Donna Lopiano, she points out sexism may have a huge effect on this financial

of 3rd place; she currently competes in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. With all the success and financial gains women have reached in sports, Women are still underpaid when compared to male athletes. Lopiano complains that there’s too much of a salaries gap between man and women playing the same sports. “The right to play has been established. However, the issue that has been confronted is the barrier to being treated equally when it comes to money” (Lopiano 1). Most people will say women’s tennis

Fleisher, an attorney and sports agent. Hired on as a general counsel in 1962, Fleisher negotiated the first collective bargaining agreement in all of professional sports in 1967, securing pensions, minimum salaries, and disability pay for its members. Over the years, the NBPA grew in power as the NBA grew in popularity. With new massive network television deals, apparel contracts, advertisement air times, ticket sales, concessions, to name a few sources of the teams’ revenue, how to divide the Association’s

couple of years, both the National Basketball Association (NBA) and college basketball have lost a substantial amount of their competition and have caught much criticizim for it. At the heart of this problem is a single cause, greed. The game of basketball has become all about money instead of the game and its fans. This problem needs to be addressed, and the best place to start is with the college players, or more specifically, the NBA draft.

Salary caps are a very important tool used in professional sports. All 4 major professional sports leagues in the United States have a salary cap installed into their collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players. Those four major sports are, the NFL, the NBA, the MLB and the NHL. A salary cap is defined as s an agreement or rule that places a limit on the amount of money that a team can spend on players' salaries. It can be as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's

The debates have gone on every sense the very first year free agency was introduced. I think after all this paper is done I truly believe that I will be able to show you evidence on why salary caps are truly unfair. So let 's have some facts that prove my theory with facts from their lives. Most coaches can look at talent and see potential at such a young age. When coaches see this they push Athletes to the next level making them ready for the college. That’s why you see kids pushing themselves so