Derrick Rose doesn’t want a NBA salary cap – NBA Lockout Update
Chicago Bulls super star Derrick Rose has voiced his disapproval of the NBA salary cap system. The salary cap has become a major sticking point between the NBA and the players in the ongoing labour dispute and Rose believes the
league would be better off without it.
"I wish it was back like where it was in the old days where there wasn't a cap," Rose told The Associated Press on Tuesday. He argued that since before the time of the NBA salary cap, the league has grown in leaps and bounds and
revenues are at an all time high. If a player then deserves a certain amount of money, why restrict it?
"Back in the day, they were giving guys coming out of college with multimillion-dollar contracts, so why stop it now? The game is growing. There's no need to stop it."
The NBA owners wanted a hard salary cap in any new Collective Bargaining Agreement while Billy Hunter, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, just recently suggested abolishing it. Now Rose has lent
his voice to the director saying that he doesn’t see any benefit of the system.
Rose, who won the NBA Most Valuable Player award last season, has established himself as a part of the league’s elite. However, his pay scale doesn’t reflect that at all. Other super stars in his talent bracket earn around $20
million a season while Rose made $5.5 million because of the salary cap, or more specifically, because of the restrictions it places on rookie contracts.
These matters are under consideration in the NBA labour discussions, but those are not going so well. The NBA owners and players have been meeting for well over a year, and although they agreed on finer details with George Cohen’s
help, even the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service couldn’t iron out major differences over BRI split and salary cap structure.
The fans meanwhile have started blaming more sides as games continue to slip by. There have even been suggestions from some quarters that both sides are being greedy, but Rose dismissed that assertion completely. He said he earns
for what he brings to the game, and he works hard to put on a display for the fans out on the court.
He believed, therefore, that those assertions were way off mark.
"I put a lot of work into my game. I take my basketball life very serious. That's just my life," he said. "For people to still talk negative about you, I think that's just life, period. You just go with it. But I feed off of it."
Whatever, the case is one thing is for sure, the league has lost its reputation.
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