Mike Conley gets 5 years, $153M!

NBA is a big fat joke!!!!!!!

So much money for so little talent.

Conley worth 30M per? MFer that is disgusting.

 

I don't get it, you guys. The league makes huge bank b/c we all watch it, and it's apparently worth it to TV broadcast and advertisers, etc.

It just "is what it is." If you think that's obscene, the owners are making even more than that, just by sitting around and handing out terrible contracts and hiring bad coaches, mostly. :grin:

 

Such a major jump in salary. Either the teams were way underpaying or now way overpaying.

 

it would've been better if they and the player's union had actually gotten together and agreed to smooth out the cap increase. huge cap increases mean lots of cap room for about the usual number of free agents. with the floor so high at 90% of the cap forcing teams to spend that money, you basically cause an offseason or two of too much money chasing the normal amount of free agents. so you pretty much screw the teams who need to sign talent and reward the guys who are free agents. the union should have gone along with a smoothing because then the whole union would participate in the increase instead of just the guys who are free agents.

 

Damn 30 mil per year.
The superstars are gonna demand twice that.

 

the players make basically 50% of whatever money comes into the league and the owners get the other 50%. the amount coming into the league went way up. so now the players salaries go way up as well. so there isn't really an underpaying or overpaying.

 

That's not how salaries work. This is the absolute max they can be paid (not exactly certain but Lebron might have a slightly higher max).

This contract while it was needed to re-sign him reasserts Moreys points about how these 2nd tier FA/middle tier ones are very inefficient.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Grizzlies have offered Mike Conley a 5 year/$153M deal, would be the richest contract in NBA HISTORY.</p>&mdash; NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/748998149784473600">July 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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MJ made about $90M from NBA contracts in his ENTIRE career.

 

If the NBA got a huge raise then it's only right that the players get one as well.
I love it.

 

lmao is this real life. and the warriors are expecting durant to take their measly 12 mill a year

 

dude might be the highest paid player in the league!

 

Post from Cavaliers2 on RealGM: "That is a lot of money, is he even a top 10 point guard?"

Air Langhi exposed??

 

If he was a FA next offseason with the projected 108m cap, this would've been a 176/5 year contract, Jesus

 

This needs more attention lol

 

i feel like they should have just adjusted all the existing player salaries upwards with the new tv money. now we have all these average players and outright scrubs getting way overpaid relative to the rest of the league

 

They need to drop ticket prices after seeing all this $hit

 

This kind of contract could eventually kill the league. I like Conley, but that's beyond ludicrous.

 

The fans are overpaying.

 

Instead of jumping the cap to such obscene levels... howabout giving the fans a break on overpriced tickets, league pass and merchandise?

just sayin...