I was happy when magic Johnson was hurt and couldn’t play against my bad boy pistons in 1989
And I’m glad the warriors lost Durant. It’s not fair that a championship team can go out and get a guy like Durant. Maybe next year they’ll get lebron. The year after that Zion.
That's "professional" sports, Champ. Durant could have gotten a big pay day anywhere.
He
chose to play with the Warriors because he liked their style of game and winning attitude.
Under Steinbrener the Yankees used to load up their roster every single year. Maybe you should check out the
Socialist Association of Basketball where no one is allowed to be too skilled or superior.
You ******* panty waists kill me.
It is weird that in Europe their sports are run like capitalism but in America our sports are totally socialist. For example, do you think a private corporation paid to have the Texas stadium built when Bush owned it? No. Bush got Texas to pay for it. Tax payers paid for it.
In pro sports, Europe is capitalist and the U.S. is ... socialist
In America you are rewarded for being the worst team. You get the first round draft pick. In Europe that's not the case.
In the United States, some people, for one reason or another, are not huge soccer fans. Former Rep. Jack Kemp, an NFL quarterback and 1996 Republican vice presidential candidate,
once labeled soccer a “European socialist sport” as opposed to football, which he considered “democratic.”
Although many Americans may agree with his take, there is no doubt that European soccer is more of a capitalist endeavor than any of the top-level American professional sports.
In top-tier European soccer leagues like the Premier League (United Kingdom) and La Liga (Spain), soccer is the ultimate meritocracy. The teams with the worst records in the standings are actually
relegated to lower leagues after every season and the top teams from the league below are
promoted to take those spots.
ompare this to the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB where the worst teams in the league are not only allowed to stay, but are rewarded with
revenue-sharing and
top picks in the following year’s
draftto help them improve. Since they are
getting moneyand top picks anyways, there’s not as much incentive for them to do anything to try to make themselves better teams. They don’t even have to try to spend money to
pay proven veterans to play for them.
For example, the Tampa Bay Rays ($69.6 million) can spend more than
$130 million less than the Boston Red Sox ($206.25 million), play in the same division, and not contend for a title year after year. Simply existing in the league and never contending is suffice – like the
Cleveland Browns, who have only had a winning record once in the past 15 NFL seasons.
Plus, those top American pro sports leagues attempt to have a “competitive balance” by implementing salary caps; they determine that, even if owners can afford it, teams are not allowed to spend more than a certain amount. This is true in the NFL, NBA and NHL; in MLB, teams also have to
pay a penalty if their team
payroll is above a certain amount. No such limit exists in the top European leagues. In fact, Lionel Messi
earns more than $50 million per season as a member of FC Barcelona (La Liga), a team with a
payroll of nearly $600 million per season.
Not to mention American pro sports leagues thrive off the corporate welfare known as
taxpayer-funded stadiums. Instead of billionaires privately funding stadiums themselves, they ask local municipalities to do it instead.
Wake up America
