Salary Cap

Tyreke Evans, the most valuable player of the McDonald’s All-American game last month, announced his decision Wednesday at a news conference surrounded by his family at American Christian School.

A three-time state player of the year, Evans averaged 29 points per game as a senior and capped it off with a 21-point, 10-rebound performance in the McDonald’s game.
He seriously considered nearby Villanova settling on the Tigers.

Evans could step directly into the starting spot vacated by Derrick Rose, who announced Tuesday that he is leaving for the NBA after one season with the Tigers. Chris Douglas-Roberts, the team’s leading scorer and Conference USA player of the year, may also end up in the NBA next season.

Evans, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard who excels at getting to the basket, could follow Rose as a one-and-done member of the Memphis backcourt.

Well, I have been looking at the NBA season with pure hate for the first half of the season.  My beloved Philadelphia Seventy Sixers were in the best of terms, pure garbage.  The only thing that helped me live through the days was the debacle in New York called Isiah Thomas.

Like all good things, the New York Knicks have come to their senses and hired someone with the authority to end this freak show.  Why I love the fact the Knicks suck, it is going to take 4 years to get out of the salary cap hell created by Thomas.  The new president is going to have to trade either Curry or Randolph because these are the only two guys someone MIGHT want.  Even so, this team is bound for the lottery for the next three years regardless of what they do.  Good luck and everyone should blame James Dolan for this.

The Sixers on the other hand have cleared salary cap space for this upcoming summer and in doing so, turned their team into a playoff contender.  Who knew?  Since being 18-30, the Sixers have gone 20-7.  No small feat for a team with “no superstar” to help lead them.  Young guys like Lou Williams, Thaddeus Young, Jason Smith have energized the two Andres (Iguodala and Miller) and Sammy Dalembert to drive this team into the playoffs.  My question now is this?  Do you spend this salary cap space on a power forward this summer like Josh Smith or Elton Brand or do you wisely resign Andre Iguodala and Lou Williams and see how much more they can grow?  Unlike the New York Knicks, the Sixers have players teams would want and salary cap space to make moves. 

For all the times I wanted to hit you with a bus, thanks Billy King.  You might have been smarter than I gave you credit for.

Like all other nascar fans, salary cap was very interested in the biggest free agent of all-time in Dale Earnhardt Junior.  While I am a Rick Hendrick fan(go Jimmie Johnson) I never thought that Junior would join my team.  Part of me didnt want him because I like rooting against him and the other part of me saw no more room at the inn for Dale Earnhardt Junior.  Shock and awe when salary cap saw that Hendrick Motor sports added the biggest star in the sport.  So, my question to all fans is this, does this move make HMR the Yankees of Nascar?  Is this move similar to Alex Rodriguez joining the Bronx Bombers?  Will this jinx the team?  Does this mean I hate Tony Stewart even more?  Is that possible?

The last part of this salary cap rant is about the NBA finals.  If you didn’t know, the Snors won 4-0 over the King.  Lebron James needs help to compete against the west.  This is the text messages between salary cap and the mexican. 

Mexican: The finals r so horrible to watch, that i am actually watching real salt lake play fc dallas

Salary cap: Five minutes earlier before you text i was watching soccer. I like to think i made the right call.  The finals are horrible.  Paris bad.

Mexican: LOL…PARIS

So there you have it.  Two devoted basketball fans that turned to MLS soccer instead of game four of the NBA finals.  I know why Paris Hilton was crying and going mental.  It wasn’t incarceration.  She was being forced to watch The Spurs versus the Cavs.  Now thats a crime.

Well, here it is…my blogging thoughts about race.  Today, we have the dismissal of the “duke rape case”, the suspensions of “pacman” Jones and Chris Henry, and also the “nappy headed hos” of Rutgers via Imus.  So, where do I start?  Let’s take them one at a time and then give a whole big summary at the end. 

First, the Duke case.  People’s poor life choices and lack of personal responsibilty was about 100 percent of this story.  The “victim” made poor life choices and now has to dance half naked to feed her illegitimate children.  The Lax players made a poor choice of hiring a drunk stripper to a drunken frat party.  And DA Nifong lacked personal responsibilty to just drop the case, but his ego got in the way of his better judgement.  Nothing to do with race or class, just idiots all the way around and everyone got exactly what they desreved for making their choices.  Has everything to do with sports and why we treat them differently in our society.  You never here about the computer club’s stripper party.  And do NOT get me started on the racist Jesse Jackson.

The second is the suspensions dealt out by the Commish on “pacman” Jones and Chris Henry.  You know, when the rest of the league turns on you and says you deserved to be punished for your actions, you really f***ed up.  I mean, you have the “murderer” Ray Lewis saying these guys are out of control.  I want to know where is the outcry, the outrage, the anything from left-wing liberals about how these guys are being singled out because of their race.  How about the black community saying these guys are giving “African-Americans”(I am an american, not any other bullshit nationality) a bad name?  How about the black community saying these guys should be punished at all?  Where is the outrage on this?

Third, Imus.  Just goes to show you that ignorance comes in all shapes.  He certainly has the shock part down of his title shock jock.  A wonderful team puts together a cinderella run and they get called names for it?  Are we back in the sixties?  Imus has no personally responsibilty and deserves everything he has sown with that one comment.  Rutgers, you ladies are my reason for even watching women’s basketball this year.  Take a bow.

So, in summation, race is stupid.  Life choices and personal responsibilty are not.  Sports creates headlines in our society today because we lack real heroes and leadership from top to bottom.  Salary cap has dated and been friends with just about every different race out there.  My friends are not determined by their skin color, but by their actions.  Stay in school, get an education, find a job, and work your ass off to achieve your dreams.  There is no easy money and much of the time the pursuit of easy money will make your journey to the dark side complete.   I am now getting down from my soap box. 

I want to be the one to come out abd apologize to anyone who tried to leave a comment here.  I was messing around with a new spam controller and accidently set the thing on killer mode.  I am not sure how long it has been this way, But I have over 400 spam deleted comments on it.  So, if you left a comment, I apologize that it didn’t get posted. 

I blame the guys I work with, but they are programmers and basically get defensive when you say anything to them.  So, salary cap is now back in business and ready to field questions once again.  Thank you for your patience.

Salary cap was sad to hear about Chris Webber’s contract buyout.  He accepted a deal of 5 million dollars versus almost 43 million dollars over this year and next.  While this helps Philadelphia out in terms of salary cap room, one has to wonder what if with Chris Webber.

What if Chris Webber still had two good knees?  What if Chris Webber hadn’t called timeout?  What if Chris Webber hadn’t accepted this deal and consumed large amounts of money for limited play?  What if Iverson would have let Chris play his game?  What if This happens:

In Isiah Thomas’ view, the Knicks are on the verge of becoming a “pretty good basketball team.”And hypothetically, in the same man’s view, they would be a better team with the addition of a certain 13-year veteran with a foot injury, a contract buyout completed last night, and only a little bit left in the tank at age 33.

Salary cap will laugh and laugh to his Knick friends.  A broken down Chris Webber to the highest payroll on Earth.  OMG!

As a long time philadelphia sports fan, I am completely soured on the chances of seeing a championship team this year.  I have been patient.  I have been vocal.  I prayed to God.  I cursed God.  I am now to the point that I am completely numb to all sporting events that have a philadelphia team in it.
Whenever I look back at all the near misses in the 23 years of no championships, I start to tear up.  I know that my suffering doesn’t compare to Cub fans, but my city has all four major sports teams(football, baseball, basketball, hockey).  The sixers last won in 1983.  OMG, this is just ridiculous.  The SIXERS?!!  The Phillies did it in 1980.(by the way, that year is the only year all four teams in the major sports from one city have ever been in the finals)  Sadly, only the Phillies won their final.  The Flyers last won in 1974-75.  Bobbi Clarke was the captain, not the burnt out GM.  The Eagles, well, they are still looking for a Super Bowl win.(won the Championship in 1960 before it was called Super Bowl) 

 My point is that I am tired of all the excuses that seem to go along with Philadelphia sports teams.  They had injuries.  They had one bad play.  Mitch Wild Thing Williams was pitching.  Always something to tell the fans about why they didn’t get the job done.  How long before fans stop showing up to games?  How much of this can one endure?  If you have the answer to any of these questions, please feel free to let me know.  Check out the poll and let me know when a Philadelphia team will win.

NBA players are some highest paid athletes in the world.  The salary cap for each team next year is a astronomical 53.15 million dollars.  With only twelve memebers on each team, that averages out to roughly 4.5 million dollars a player.  To make matters worse, these players salaries are increasing 100 percent about every seven years.  This article shows salary caps since 1984.  Eight year olds play on the same court with the same dimensions as these pros.  I believe that we should raise the baskets to fourteen feet.  Dunking would then be impressive to me.