NBA: Contraction on the Table

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New Orleans and maybe... Memphis... would be gone first. The city of New Orleans possibly within a milli-second of any decision regarding contraction being made!


In another staggering development, CBSSports.com learned that salaries may not be the only area cut as the NBA tries to gets its financial books up to speed with the explosion in popularity the league will experience this season. A person with knowledge of the owners' discussions said the league "will continue to be open to contraction" as a possible mechanism for restoring the league to profitability.

The owners' ongoing talks about competitive balance, profitability and revenue sharing have included the notion of whether teams are operating in "the best available markets," the person said, and whether reducing the number of teams from the current 30 would help improve the product and the bottom line.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/14166621/stern-nba-wants-player-salary-costs-cut-by-750m800m?

[TexasTerror]

Did not know this, but NBA legend Jerry West talked about it much earlier this year...


Jerry West is talking contraction in the NBA, and some people are buying what he is selling. Jerry West talked about NBA contraction in an interview on Tuesday night, and talked of a time in the past where the NBA was able to put "super teams" on the floor that sometimes seemed to have five all-stars starting for some of them. It's a point that some support, the contraction of the NBA, but it is also something that would be extremely tough to figure out and even harder to put into practice. Right now this just seems like a pipe dream of Jerry West, who has now been out of the game a couple of years.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2613757/nba_legend_jerry_west_in_favor_of_contraction.html