last i checked durant was finals mvp. and curry has never beaten a healthy cavs team in the finals without kd
It's his choice. Deal with it. Don't pocket watch. It's not like he's going on welfare for this pay cut.
Im for sure he would have played for free to get melo in there :/ the media sure is trying to make us feel sorry for him and like him. Eff him. He screwed the league up. Warriors storming through the playoffs caused down revenue and lower than expected cap.
Why is this news??? Chris Paul took $10 millions less this year to join the Rockets!!! Could have gotten $35 millions from the Clippers if he opted out. But he opted in for $24 millions. He also could have gotten $3 million in trade kicker as part of his contract. He waived the $3 millions bonus from the trade!!! CHRIS PAUL TOOK $13 millions less this year to pay for the ROCKETS!! $13 millions is greater than $10 million DO THE MATH FOLKS CP3 Gave up more to join the Mighty Mighty Rockets
How so? Said billionaire still has to spend money. Somebody else is going to get paid more than they are worth thanks to KD taking less. Have you seen the tax bill for this team in the next few years?
100% to piss off OKC and WB. remember, it was the cheap ass OKC owner that didn't want to pay his best friend, Harden, an extra $2 millions a year to keep that Dynasty going. OKC owner only had to give $2 millions more a year to Harden and we would never heard of Golden State.
Its not about saving the owner money its about keeping the talent in the salary cap rules. Owners have billions of dollars but they cant use that to pay everyone they want. Thats such a wrong argument. If that was the case then the brooklyn nets could sign the banana boat team next year. Guys like durant, duncan, dirk taking paycuts isnt about saving the owner money. Its about being sure there is money left over for other guys on the team. No matter how much money an owner has, the nba will force him to stop spending by hard capping him at some point. And thats a damn good thing. If there was no salary cap then the lakers/knicks would get all the stars and half the nba teams like utah, okc, sacramento would all go out of business. I am pro owner just because player empowerment usually leads to crappy parity and stars all just super teaming in big markets. Only mikhail prokhorov and steve ballmer would win lol
Its probably more that Durant sacrificed money so that Iguodala and other role players could get paid and stay with the Warriosr. The owners probably made clear that they would spend and pay lux tax but not "super-lux-tax", especially risking repeater tax to the tune of several tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. Also there are other issues like being hard capped with so-called "apron" provisions and such. Curry had already sacrificed by being paid literally scrub money during his prime MVP years. So he was paid the supermax, largely as makeup money as much as just paying his full worth. So it was basically between Iguodala and Durant. Durant has made his money and then some in endorsements. And he will get his big pay day next year so its just a one year "sacrifice", not to mention extra endorsements and opportunities being in the Bay Area. But for Iguodala, it was his last chance at a big payday and he has never had near the kind of endorsement money as Durant. Durant sacrificed for Iguodala not for the owners. If Durant rightfully insisted on getting his full value, Warriors would have definitely paid it to keep him. But they would have let Iguodala go. The owners would have paid out about the same total amount in payroll either way. In the final analysis, Durant gave money to Iguodala, not the owners, and only for one single year.
probably 3. draymond a clear #1 because without him the team doesn't work. need his defense. durant or curry could not be on the team and they would be favored to win the championship (though might choke it in the finals) and durant is better than curry. klay is #4.
I have no problem with great players taking less if that is their prerogative. Similarly if CP3 wants less money then that's fine. And I have no problem with average players making the max if someone gives it to them. Each player decides what is best for them.
but it's still durant vs the owner's money. the owner could pay iguodala and durant per the rules, it's just a matter of spending more of his money. so it was either durant get his money or get iguodala because a billionaire didn't want to spend more money. now sure, it wasn't a 1:1 ratio but it was still just durant's money vs a billionaire's money. the owner was basically just betting durant would be too worried about competing to risk losing iggy and would give up his money instead.
Durant didn't save the owners any money because the owners never planned to spend that kind of money period. The only reason Iguodala was overpaid was because Durant probably gave them assurances that he would take a one-year hit so go ahead and pay him what it took to keep him. And had Durant simply said that he was going to demand the max like Curry from the very beginning, they would just give him the max, let Livingston and Iguodala walk since they'd be out of cap room, and fill out the rosters with min contracts. No one would blame Durant if he wanted his max. But at the same time no one would blame ownership if they didn't want to pay ultra luxury tax either. There was a reason why Durant waited to sign last. He told ownership to pay what it took to keep Livingston and Iguodala and he gave an amount he would take in a paycut, only for one year, to make it happen. If he wasn't willing and wanted the max, the owners would have wanted him to let them know upfront and they would have just signed Durant first and then filled out the team as best they can without going deep into super lux tax territory.
He took less this year so he could still be eligible for the over 38 supermax. A straight up signing would have left him ineligible.
As if some other jock rider wouldn't have been more than happy to take his money. Getting clowned by Joe Lacob is embarrassing. Guy seems like a total toolbar.
Dude Durant was a "student" at Texas for 6 whole months. No need to circle the burnt orange wagons for a guy who just got clowned by a shithead who named his dogs "John Galt" and "Howard Roark" Look at LeBron and Gilbert to see how it's done
