Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2019.06.19)

By: Grocer

Grocer — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:23:58 +0000

Tell me why this is bad.

Grocer’s Guide To Fixing The Draft While Increasing Parity:

Draft position determines how much money a team can offer. Rookies can decide where they’d like to go. Increase the percentage of the cap max contracts can be to cut back on multiple star dynasty teams. Maybe no rounds, just a flat contract amount teams can spend how they wish on rookies? Plus as many minimum contracts as they have spots for. Allow using that money for one offs to lock in rights to euro players?

Plenty of details to be hashed out later.

By: Grocer

Grocer — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:51:46 +0000

The big straw man is the implication that workers have “no right to complain” if they’re earning millions. No one is saying that.

Pretty sure bob said precisely that and I don’t think he was alone. It may seem like a field but it’s really a road of yellow brick.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:10:43 +0000

The big straw man is the implication that workers have “no right to complain” if they’re earning millions. No one is saying that. Obviously, workers DO have the right to complain and to seek redress, through the collective bargaining process, superseded by employment/civil rights law.

The Knicks are poster children for the power of collective bargaining. See: Joakim, Amare, Eddy, etc. Those are the guys that are screwing the 19 year olds, not the evil cartel.

By: bidiong

bidiong — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 06:36:15 +0000

All I know is if this country keeps running up debt like it is we’re all fucked. Doesn’t matter what kind of labor situation you’re in.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 04:21:22 +0000

Grocer dropped the hammer, and I’m all here for it.

His world view sounds like an endless nihilist wasteland punctuated by the bright burning candles of investors keeping us all safe from the hoary clutches of over-zealous justice.

(Btw I’m totally stealing this to throw at the few Austrian economists I still run into from time to time)

If Griffin trades for the 2nd to get Barrett I would be very, very happy. I don’t think it’s happening because I really don’t see Memphis wanting Ball (who’s certainly not going to want to play in Memphis and it will be a mess), but maybe they love Garland and can be enticed by other assets? At this point I guess its just wishful thinking anyway, so I won’t get too hopeful.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:54:40 +0000

@142

g r o c e r t i m e

By: geo

geo — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:49:45 +0000

listening to RJ on sportscenter…great smile…he’s got a chance to be broadway in way KP never could have been…

By: Grocer

Grocer — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:42:05 +0000

The damn machine told me I had 9 characters left and it still cut it off. WTH machine? Note to self: don’t let Knickblogger perform the bris. End of 142 should read “details TBD.”

By: Grocer

Grocer — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:39:36 +0000

What do the Pels have that we don’t really want but the Grizz do? Or does he actually think Memphis is taking Barrett? I gotta say, this whole idea is really fucking stupid and I think it is great. I mean, I guess I’d but okay with Morant, shucks Griffin, you tossed us in the dang briar patch once more. When will we learn.

By: Grocer

Grocer — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:35:07 +0000

I love reading the combination of “players get paid a lot and choose to play in the NBA so they have no right to complain about their employment” and “the profits of investors are paramount and we have to put their needs first when contemplating the conditions of the workers they employ.” So delicious! Such bright contrasting flavors! The ur arguments of late capitalism. Money has more value than the labor that produces it and any inclement employment conditions are the fault of the workers. You can tell it’s true because the free market requires less taxes from investors and everybody knows that the market is a naturally occuring phenomenon, like Jesus. It’s a perfect meritocracy. Insert heart eyes emogi here.

Also loved dessert, where any instance of corruption in a system is proof of widespread and inherent corruption and there’s no point in trying to root it out. That’d be silly idealism! Sometimes I think Strat must live in a world where everyone is a murdering adulterous pedophilic rapist but it’s beyond the pale to question anyone who may have engaged in those activities. Who are we to cast stones? It’s just not done. Too bad it’s past his bedtime and he’ll never see this. His world view sounds like an endless nihilist wasteland punctuated by the bright burning candles of investors keeping us all safe from the hoary clutches of over-zealous justice. It’d just make things worse after all. Next time I’ll just have the glass of port. Maybe a coffee.

Grocer’s Guide To Fixing The Draft While Increasing Parity:

Draft position determines how much money a team can offer. Rookies can decide where they’d like to go. Increase the percentage of the cap max contracts can be to cut back on multiple star dynasty teams. Maybe no rounds, just a flat contract amount teams can spend how they wish on rookies? Plus as many minimum contracts as they have spots for. Allow using that money for one offs to lock in rights to euro players?…