DT vs NM is classic basketball. Veterans teach not by X's and O's but by showing how it's done. Rookies learn by giving their complete attention to the finer details executed by the best and trying to emulate. It's all part of the game we love.
Mostly. Sometimes it can be antisocial media too though.
"Secretary of Defense", I like that.
I think you should forward your suggestion to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert.
In the situation of the Seattle Storm, it is going to be $17.00; no, not as little as a buck thirty seven, but literally seventeen dollars!
Can they pay a “luxury tax” of $6?
Not crazy about that. It would allow unscrupulous owners to whipsaw 2 or more players to accept lower compensation than they are due, and it would also be in violation of the CBA. The goal should be to raise overall WNBA salaries, not reduce them.
On the other hand, it empowers players to make a decision as to whether or not they're willing to accept a nominal decrease to play in the WNBA. I accept that it may be violent at the CBA, but I am always partial to treating people like adults.
Again, if someone is willing to take less pay than they are due, it presents a whole host of problems, not the least of which includes the potential of players to be referred to as “scabs” as well as the likely opposition of veteran players who would also be subject to whipsawing by owners.
It is Capitalism. Further, these are professional athletes being discussed, not staff at a hair salon. This is a ‘protection’ that has absolutely ship-wrecked players careers in the past and will continue to do so into the future. In addition to being on the bubble and having to outplay other teammates for the roster spot, if your ‘required salary’ is $652 more than others only because you were drafted a few spots higher, and as a result puts the team over the limit, regardless of whether you’re a better player or not you don’t make the team. What is necessary, is to MAKE THE TEAM!!!
I guess, but shouldn't that be their choice, rather than someone else's? I'm always wary when people who aren't involved decide that "they know what's best" for people who are actually involved and have an economic interest.
Absolutely! She played Nika for 20 mins in the last game, right? I think someone wants to give her the best possible shot at making this team. And finding her voice? Does anyone have a louder one on any team? No way she goes unnoticed.
Minimum wage laws were implemented following the Great Depression to protect workers and insure they had an acceptable standard of living. Absent such protections, unscrupulous employers were far more likely to drive down compensation for all employees. I was profoundly impacted by reading “The Grapes of Wrath” in HS, which outlined the cruel exploitation of agricultural workers during the Depression.
Hmmm, so if everyone on the 11 man roster takes a $1.60 pay cut, then the team can fund a 12th player under the salary cap (less than a cup of coffee)? No, I don't like that solution. This is beyond ridiculous. The W needs to get their act together. Some of their problems are self-inflicted.
I wonder whether a player's salary is reduced proportionately if she doesn't return from playing overseas by the start of the season? Also, couldn't the Storm trade a guard for a forward? Or a forward for another forward who is a better fit and earns slightly less? Or go down to 10 players and then pick up someone who is a good match, has been cut by another team, and fits under the salary cap? My overall point is the Storm's management is not as clueless or as helpless as many on this thread are making it out to be. I don't know whether any of my "what ifs" would work, but that is kinda the point. None of us who has weighed in so far understands the CBA on a granular level, much less is privy to the goals, desires, and strategy of Storm management.
By the way, my previous response to your post, Dugway, was not meant to take issue with anything you said. Your post was well-researched, thoughtful, and carefully presented. I felt a lot smarter after reading it.
if you're right in this analysis, then ... bye, bye V.V. (i'd assume. since cause nika is a far, far more valuable asset to the franchise overall, if not the better ballplayer ... yet.)
