I was just reading the CBA rules for appeals and it could take a couple of months before a decision is rendered. The NBA has 10 days to file an appeal, an appeals panel has to be selected, both sides get to argue their cases and then the appeals panel has 30 days to render a decision.
In the mean time any award is stayed with a filing of a timely appeal until a decision is made by the appeals panel. Looks to me the Knicks could get screwed if Lin and Novak get deals offered by other teams and any FAs we are interested in would have to wait until the appeal is decided on.
Wow, this is tremendous news for our franchise. Finally something to get excited about. Watching Lebron, Wade & Bosh dancing on the sidelines last night was almost more than I could bear.
I wonder if Nash would sign for a MLE to join the Knicks? He would be a Godsend for this team. If not I would love to target Ray Allen, we need another reliable shooter other than just Novak. That would help to spread the floor tremendously inside for STAT & Melo to do their thing, not to mention open up a ton of lanes for Lin to penetrate & dish.
Here's hoping the NBAPA has some sort of plan to file tampering charges if the NBA tries to pull this tactic to force teams to use their MLE regardless. Honestly I can't see why the NBA is so dead set that waived players can't keep their bird right. If they had felt so strongly about it they should of crammed it down the players throats like they did everything else this last CBA.
Stern got the league thinking backwards.
The league would gain by waive players having their Birds Rights....
teams could gain a option by negotiating sign n trade for restricted and unrestricted (waive) FA.
What if Billups dont want to stay in L.A., the Clippers would be able to get him more money in a sign n trade.
It's such BS, if Dolan really wanted to save money he could just choose not to sign Lin and Novak, that simple. Oh wait so he doesn't care about the money and wants the players? Then that should be his right! Last I checked collusion is against the rules. Yeah there is a cap but there is also early Bird rights which have been set in stone so the arbitrator made the correct call. Go ahead and appeal like a bitch but the fact will remain. How is letting teams resign their own players a bad deal for teams? Other owners should be all for this too.There are 2 issues here...The first is just $$$$...With this new interpretation, teams will be paying more money to players, since they will have more breathing room under the cap. More teams with cap room=larger offers for available talent...So if you were going to evaluate each team as a business, this decision just lowered the value of each team, since now their costs are going up
The second issue is the big market vs small market thing...Obviously this ruling favors the larger markets, since they are the ones with the money available to go above the cap room. The league is trying everything it can to create balance, and wants to create an environment where small market teams can compete.
It's such BS, if Dolan really wanted to save money he could just choose not to sign Lin and Novak, that simple. Oh wait so he doesn't care about the money and wants the players? Then that should be his right! Last I checked collusion is against the rules. Yeah there is a cap but there is also early Bird rights which have been set in stone so the arbitrator made the correct call. Go ahead and appeal like a bitch but the fact will remain. How is letting teams resign their own players a bad deal for teams? Other owners should be all for this too.
Crazy⑧s;238265 said:I think I'll exercise my skepticism on this one. Massive boon for big markets, and we all know what happened when Dan Gilbert (who is currently chainsawing a LBJ voodoo doll) intervened on the CP3 to LAL trade after the CBA lockout. This has gotta be in the same ballpark, no? There'll be tantrums, count on it.
If smaller market teams object, and the league is attempting to put in place an equilibrium between all markets, this could very well turn in to another separation of sides ~ haves and have nots (on an NBA level, that is) ~ and cause a lot of headaches for Stern.
Will he save himself the trouble and have it burned?
No, it's not about Dolan wanting to save money. The Knicks (and any other team) that takes advantage of these new early bird rights will drive up the cost of the OTHER players for EVERY team since there is more cap space available. So, it is in David Stern's best interest to appeal this, since the teams are more valuable when the cost of the players is lower.
I hope so because this ruling is time critical. The last word from the union is they don't expect the appeal will be resolved when FA begins on July 1 but maybe they can petition for an expedited appeal so it can done by July 10 which I think is the day FAs can begin signing with teams.Here's hoping the NBAPA has some sort of plan to file tampering charges if the NBA tries to pull this tactic to force teams to use their MLE regardless. Honestly I can't see why the NBA is so dead set that waived players can't keep their bird right. If they had felt so strongly about it they should of crammed it down the players throats like they did everything else this last CBA.
Completely different situations. The CP3 thing happened because the hornets were a league owned team. This decision is an interpretation of a CBA that has already been agreed upon by both parties. If i had to guess, i'd say the reason it passed is mainly that the guys who are picked up off of waivers are done so due to no fault of their own. So, since they didn't make the choice of leaving a team for FA, why should they be punished by losing their ability to make more money through having early bird rights...
Crazy⑧s;238294 said:I'm speaking more directly in regard to those that will oppose the arbitration. There will be those that go against it, and there voices have to be heard.
The league has apparently overlooked a number of loopholes from the most recent CBA, and if they allow this to be reconstructed, they'll likely have a lot of work ahead of them to restructure/iron out the fine print. I'm sure they'd prefer not to, and I'm sure there'll be influxes of both good and bad news for Knick fans before a decision is finally made.