Salary
Caps
The
NBA, NFL and NHL all have salary caps because players let themselves get
bullied into it. Time after time,
rosters get blown up when teams have exceeded their salary cap. It happened to the Blackhawks after they won
the Stanley Cup in 2010, and may happen again because of a weak Canadian
dollar.
The
cap is solely for the benefit of owners.
None of the above sports have what you would call ticket affordability
(thank you, baseball, for no cap and a 162-game schedule). So, fans benefit from it about as much as
players do. No, we’re supposed to
believe teams need the cap in order to survive.
But why isn’t there a capital gains’ cap imposed when an NBA, NFL or NHL
team gets sold? Why does Donald Sterling get to walk away with $2 billion from
the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers?
Players either need
to demand such a thing or strike to end salary caps. Until then, give me baseball’s luxury tax any
day.
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