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richardhutnik on 17 May 2011
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Kasz216 said:
richardhutnik said:

Anyone but the Heat.  The Heat are bad for the NBA, if their model works.  It is good if it implodes and they never win anything.  That is not how you build a team.  Assemble 3 max contracts on the fly and fill the rest with league minimum contracts?  Nope, that is not a way to do it.  If it ended up working, then the NBA shifts into a big 3 in the prime model.

Anyhow, will see how it goes here.  The NBA is likely going to face a prolonged lockout, likely joining the NFL to.

The lockout will be interesting.  In a way, the Heat gave the owners an enormous amount of ammo to put on a hard cap and give more power to the drafting teams.

I wouldn't be surprised if they made a rule where max "franchise" players can't be traded.

I don't see that happening regarding max franchise players.  A club losing money may want to end up moving a player.  Option could be that both sides would have to agree to trades.  However, there could be rules against the number of max players you can have.  But the 3 in Miami did what they could to get together.