New NBA CBA Isn’t About Creating Parity, It’s About Poverty Management

New NBA CBA Isn’t About Creating Parity, It’s About Poverty Management

Adam Silver claims the new NBA CBA is about creating parity. While that may be partially true (even if it’s idiotic and is single-handedly killing ratings), everyone with an IQ above 40 knows the truth. This is about poverty management, and the unintended consequences of these new rules are going to severely damage the well-being of the sport.

This new CBA sucks for so many reasons, but this particular angle cannot be argued. Adam Silver wants to curb tanking, but also gives tax teams zero avenue to improve the team and, quite literally, forces them to tear their rosters to the ground. What this CBA does more than anything is make teams declare who they are in the most public way possible.

Hey, we’re not trying this year. But in two years, we’re really trying!

That conversation is happening in every single organization right now. And guess what… the players aren’t dumb.

What the NBA has done is create bad culture, and the sad part is they don’t even realize they’re doing it. The players on the roster know when the team wants to win and when it doesn’t. Because those teams no longer have a choice in the way they operate, the on-court product for those teams is only going to get worse in the coming years. If you hate load management, you’re going to love what’s coming when half the league has to declare they’re not in it this year because of poverty management.

I’m not a Bill Simmons guy, but the latest episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast proposed a theory where high profile NBA stars could opt to leave the league for the equivalent of LIV Golf.

“What they’re telling people is that they have a couple major stars that are gonna be joining that are gonna be jaw-dropping,” Simmons told Chuck Klosterman. “It’s pretty clear, ’cause Maverick Carter is running this or is one of the people involved in pushing it, that he’s dangling [that] LeBron [James] is gonna be one of the people that do it. Could it be Kevin Durant?

“My guess is it’s probably older famous superstars nearing the end of their career who are just gonna do it, where they would get a bunch of money, probably equity in the league. And it’s a financial play and you try to build something.”

Adam Silver Cares Too Much About Parity

You may scoff at that notion, and trust me, I’m not a Simmons guy, so I get it, but he might be onto something. I just talked about this in a blog I did a few days ago. There are so many unintended consequences this new set of rules have created, and the years of service problem isn’t going away. Those same older players will be given a choice.

A: Take the minimum to try to win a championship.

B: Join the LIV golf of the NBA and take this large sum of money you otherwise can’t see because the NBA shot themselves in the foot.

They told us it was about parity. It’s simply not true. It’s an excuse for owners to not spend money, and it’s going to reek like a smelly disease when this stuff rachets up. I promise you that. It has everything to do with poverty management, and the smart people know it’s going to kill any and all momentum the league once had. The consequences are coming. I promise you that.

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