Rovell: Cost of keeping Warriors together

[Smashcat]

Darren Rovell‏Verified account@darrenrovell 5m5 minutes ago
In 2010, Joe Lacob & Peter Guber spent a record $450M to buy Warriors. Ten years later, they will pay $400M in yearly salary + lux tax

 

[UKUGA]

Yikes.

New arena.

A bit of irony: the Dubs' play-off domination reduced league revenue, which lowered both the salary cap and tax luxury tax line. Not to mention the direct revenue loss to the Warriors for hosting fewer playoff games.

While their championships are increasing their value dramatically, their doninance is actually eating into the bottom line.

 

[JasonS.]

Team valuation is on the way to $3 billion. Money well spent.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/g...ncreased-more-than-1-billion-in-recent-years/

 

[Bluegrassking]

People seem to get overly concerned about the cost of labor but almost never the owner's revenue.

Nary a cent of it is coming your way either way and the billionaire will be aight.

 

[wildcatsboston1984]

Yikes.

New arena.

A bit of irony: the Dubs' play-off domination reduced league revenue, which lowered both the salary cap and tax luxury tax line. Not to mention the direct revenue loss to the Warriors for hosting fewer playoff games.

While their championships are increasing their value dramatically, their doninance is actually eating into the bottom line.

Wasn't just the Warriors. Cavs slaughtered the East as well, going 4-0, 4-0, and 4-1. Only two series went to seven games. An all-time low total of playoff games were played, at least since the first round was expanded to 7 games that is.

 

[W_Heisenberg]

Wasn't just the Warriors. Cavs slaughtered the East as well, going 4-0, 4-0, and 4-1. Only two series went to seven games. An all-time low total of playoff games were played, at least since the first round was expanded to 7 games that is.

Which caused the salary cap to go down, and thus players making less money. Wonder how many "super teams" the players union will allow moving forward...

 

[Aike]

Looky here, another revenue stream...

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/246719/Warriors-Could-Generate-$300M-In-Personal-Seat-Licenses

Almost as if some of these billionaires know a thing or two about making money.

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

NBA needs to do away w/ deferred payments and enforce a strict salary cap. Outside those parameters you can spend your money any way you want. If you wanna max your salary on 3 superstars and then fill out your roster w/ 9 church league volunteers, that's your bidness, but the hard cap will be enforced.

 

[Cefiro]

NBA needs to do away w/ deferred payments and enforce a strict salary cap. Outside those parameters you can spend your money any way you want. If you wanna max your salary on 3 superstars and then fill out your roster w/ 9 church league volunteers, that's your bidness, but the hard cap will be enforced.

Agreed....never been a big NBA fan, but not fun to watch if all the good players are on the same team.

 

[wildcatsboston1984]

NBA needs to do away w/ deferred payments and enforce a strict salary cap. Outside those parameters you can spend your money any way you want. If you wanna max your salary on 3 superstars and then fill out your roster w/ 9 church league volunteers, that's your bidness, but the hard cap will be enforced.

Artificially capping salaries is anti-American

 

[BlueRunner11]

Agreed....never been a big NBA fan, but not fun to watch if all the good players are on the same team.

You must've really hated the 2015 UK team.

Dominance is quite enjoyable when it's your team doing the dominating.

 

[Deli owl]

Rather see a hard cap and parity.

 

[~Keyser Soze~]

I'm always amazed by UK fans complaining about 1 team acquiring too much talent.

 

[Cefiro]

I'm always amazed by UK fans complaining about 1 team acquiring too much talent.

Well, when golden state only keeps their top players for one year then I'll stop complaining.

 

[USSLair]

Durant is back and they are going to probably win the next two titles if they stay healthy.

Doubt they care about that.

 

[WildMoon]

probably will see a trade with either Klay or Green in the future.

 

[WildMoon]

I'm always amazed by UK fans complaining about 1 team acquiring too much talent.

for me, the issue i have is...

why is there so many shitty players in NBA? lol, i like loaded teams...in fact i want to see more loaded team.

 

[Aike]

for me, the issue i have is...

why is there so many shitty players in NBA? lol, i like loaded teams...in fact i want to see more loaded team.

You would see less bad players in the league if teams were allowed to cut underperforming players and sign better ones without receiving cap-related penalties.

Then the rich teams would keep rolling the dice until they hit on a winner. The Lakers would have waived Mozgov and Deng, and held onto Russell, for instance.

 

[Rupp'sRunt]

Team valuation is on the way to $3 billion. Money well spent.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/g...ncreased-more-than-1-billion-in-recent-years/

Pretty much impossible to lose money on a sports franchise