Growing up my dad used to tell me that with escalating player salaries, which were out of control back then, he'd like to see each league shut down "for a year or two" to straighten everything out. He also said that if players would play for "only" $500,000 to $1 million a year, "you'd have no problem finding enough people who wanted to play for that."
I told him I disagreed on both parts, but after we've seen the NHL lose a season to a strike, I guess anything is possible. If anything baseball needs to strike for at least a season and get an NFL-style salary cap and floor, but because of the powerful players' union, this will never happen—at least not on puppet Bud Selig's watch. Still, that's another article for another day.
Before blasting the NBA, let's look at a few things they've done right since their last lockout/CBA:
1. Cap on Player Contracts in Terms of Years/Dollars
Before this version of the NBA, you had nice, but not superstar players like Antonio McDyess (of the Nuggets) and Antoine Walker (of Boston) getting crazy near-$100 million contracts or more.
No, Shawn Kemp formerly of the C ...
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