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I'm just saying that nobody who matters predicted the White Sox to do anything this year, and anybody who says they did had no logical reasoning behind it. For the most part.
Outlaw, that is probably correct. I know LeBron (not on the list obviously), but he signed a contract near $100 million or something with Nike. So yeah you can get a hell of a lot of money outside of your playing contract, but thats not really what I mean.
My beef is that the way the NBA works right now, a player has a somewhat good year (Adonal Foyle for example), then he gets signed to a huge contract and then sucks it up for the rest of his career because some dumbass like Isiah Thomas has money to throw around. If you look at that list, there are two shitty New York players in the top 25 paid for last season, and Marbury was up there too. They by far have the biggest payroll, but their team is utter shit. Then the other part of the problem, if a guy is worth two million or so, then he is coveted by a couple teams, instead of going to the place where he fits in best or has the best chance at winning, a team like the Knicks can just offer him 10 million and he goes there, has no more motivation to win, and thus ruins the league. Then to add onto that, the guy next season says "I was just as good as him and he got this contract, so I want the same"...INFLATION. I hate to say it but really Kevin Garnett started it all. I don't know if I would go as far as non-guaranteed contracts, but at least a hard cap would completely cut down on shitty overprices.
Think about it, if a team can simply not spend over say 80 million, they are not going to sign a guy like Adonal Foyle to a big contract unless they know he's going to be good. He would have a pretty much set value, have a couple team offer him it, but a team like the Knicks wouldn't just put their foot in the door and offer him twice his worth. Also you couldn't have guys making like 30,000,000 without being on a losing team, so everything would balance out.
The NBA really has issues and it was terribly exposed with Latrell Sprewell this season. He made it clear that he was worried about money rather then winning a championship, and made a laughingstock of the league by saying he needed to feed his family. The way it is set up is to just let guys get really rich and relax, and that takes away way too much of the passion that is what makes basketball great.
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