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Originally Posted by alexchechs
I think this was such a bad move. I know clearing salary cap is the new black but people need to chill on it. I saw what the Knicks are doing and no matter how much money they clear up for 2010 I dont see them landing Lebron, or Wade, or Bosh. I bet in 2 years alot of these NBA teams with salary cap room are going to be signing one round wonders for max contracts and the mess is going to start all over again.
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Oh yeah....with the Knicks it's ridiculous.
Peter King wrote about it in his column that week.
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b. Really: In what other sport are the next two seasons rendered totally meaningless for a cornerstone-of-the-league franchise like the New York Knickerbockers?
c. It's everywhere -- on talk radio, on SportsCenter, in columns, endlessly in every New York paper and Web site. I keep reading how smart and prescient the Knicks were for decimating their current team (playing with seven players Friday and Saturday night) and clearing out enough cap space for this great player, LeBron James.
But the NBA already rivals the PSL-charging NFL for ticket-price insanity; if I wanted to sit two levels up from the floor at the foul line in Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night for Knicks-Cavs, I'm paying $244.50 per seat. The Knicks have 75 home games remaining before, presumably, LeBron James or some similar star begins to suit up for them in 2010-11 because of all this cap room they've cleared. And they're asking that fan in the second level up from the floor to pay $36,000 for a pair of seats for those 75 games to see the JV team, a team simply playing out the string 'til Superman arrives.
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Tickets aren't as expensive here...and we're not a JV team now....but still. The Hornets made a mint with last year's playoff run and ticket sales this year are way better than they were last year at this time.
I could see them trading Peja or something because he's old...but you don't dump 1/3 of your young talented nucleus for "financial reasons" because I promise you the amount of season ticket holders that are going to bail over this and the playoff revenue you'll miss by getting knocked out in the first round will far exceed whatever you had to pay Chandler next year.
As much as fans in other cities hate guys like Steinbrenner and Jerry Jones....alot of times we wish we had guys like that owning our teams.