Official NBA OFF-SEASON Thread - 2011: Free Agency Dec. 9th

@JerryZgoda: Surprise, surprise: R Adelman next on #Wolves interview, due in Sat. http://tinyurl.com/2egjaa3
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Adelman to interview Saturday

The Timberwolves' coaching search just got very interesting.

According to league sources, former Houston coach Rick Adelman will be the fourth candidate to interview with the Wolves when he comes to town tomorrow to see David Kahn and owner Glen Taylor.

Adelman all along has looked like the dream hire who'd solve a lot of the Wolves' problems, if he's interested.

Well, it looks like he is now, at least enough to listen.


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Surprising news. I get the feeling Adelman will interview Kahn more than Kahn will interview Adelman though.
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@JerryZgoda: Surprise, surprise: R Adelman next on #Wolves interview, due in Sat. http://tinyurl.com/2egjaa3
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Adelman to interview Saturday

The Timberwolves' coaching search just got very interesting.

According to league sources, former Houston coach Rick Adelman will be the fourth candidate to interview with the Wolves when he comes to town tomorrow to see David Kahn and owner Glen Taylor.

Adelman all along has looked like the dream hire who'd solve a lot of the Wolves' problems, if he's interested.

Well, it looks like he is now, at least enough to listen.


Link

Surprising news. I get the feeling Adelman will interview Kahn more than Kahn will interview Adelman though.
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[h1]NBA Revenue News, Presented Through A Funhouse Mirror[/h1]
The NBA sent out a press release right around closing time on Friday alerting the world that the league did in fact have a great season, increasing total basketball-related income to $3.817 billion, a 4.8 percent bump. Included in the brief release were four bullet points, three of which are quite obviously written to help frame the NBA's pleas about suffocating losses due to (you guessed it) rising player salaries.

Those bullet points with some annotations are below.

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Lines from the press release in bold. My annotations in normal fontface.

BRI increased by 4.8% from $3.643 billion in 2009-10 to $3.817 billion in 2010-11.

Awesomesauce. The league is healthy! Right ...?

Total player compensation also increased by 4.8% from $2.076 billion in 2009-10 to $2.176 billion in 2010-11.

Oh.

But wait, considering that the NBA's salary system -- as approved unanimously by owners in 1999 and again in 2005 -- ties player salary to revenue, this makes total sense. As revenues rise, salaries rise. If revenues dip, salaries dip. If revenues blast into a new, uncharted galaxy, salaries blast into a new, uncharted galaxy. The two, revenue and salaries, are coupled.

This marks the sixth consecutive season that player compensation increased under the expired CBA.

Oh. Well, cool! That makes total sense, considering that this also marks the sixth consecutive season that player compensation increased under the expired CBA.

Total player compensation equaled 57% of BRI.

... as it is designed to under the salary system, which means that -- bar the doors, Sally, this is a big one -- the salary cap is working as designed.

The average player salary for the 2010-11 season was $5.15 million.

What a load of money for "average" players!

Over the six-year term of the expired CBA, the average player salary increased by a total of 16%.

What a huge increase! A 16 percent raise over six years? That's more than 2.5 percent per year! Meanwhile, NBA league revenues have increased 20.2 percent over the six-year term of the expired CBA.  Or 3.3 percent annually.

By the NBA's own numbers, revenues over this CBA grew faster than the average salary did. That bullet point is, unfortunately, missing from the NBA's release. Understandable, of course, as it hurts the NBA's case that player salaries and not self-imposed other expenses are to blame for the league's claimed losess.


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[h1][/h1]
[h1]NBA Revenue News, Presented Through A Funhouse Mirror[/h1]
The NBA sent out a press release right around closing time on Friday alerting the world that the league did in fact have a great season, increasing total basketball-related income to $3.817 billion, a 4.8 percent bump. Included in the brief release were four bullet points, three of which are quite obviously written to help frame the NBA's pleas about suffocating losses due to (you guessed it) rising player salaries.

Those bullet points with some annotations are below.

http://
star-divide.v777cf8a.jpg


Lines from the press release in bold. My annotations in normal fontface.

BRI increased by 4.8% from $3.643 billion in 2009-10 to $3.817 billion in 2010-11.

Awesomesauce. The league is healthy! Right ...?

Total player compensation also increased by 4.8% from $2.076 billion in 2009-10 to $2.176 billion in 2010-11.

Oh.

But wait, considering that the NBA's salary system -- as approved unanimously by owners in 1999 and again in 2005 -- ties player salary to revenue, this makes total sense. As revenues rise, salaries rise. If revenues dip, salaries dip. If revenues blast into a new, uncharted galaxy, salaries blast into a new, uncharted galaxy. The two, revenue and salaries, are coupled.

This marks the sixth consecutive season that player compensation increased under the expired CBA.

Oh. Well, cool! That makes total sense, considering that this also marks the sixth consecutive season that player compensation increased under the expired CBA.

Total player compensation equaled 57% of BRI.

... as it is designed to under the salary system, which means that -- bar the doors, Sally, this is a big one -- the salary cap is working as designed.

The average player salary for the 2010-11 season was $5.15 million.

What a load of money for "average" players!

Over the six-year term of the expired CBA, the average player salary increased by a total of 16%.

What a huge increase! A 16 percent raise over six years? That's more than 2.5 percent per year! Meanwhile, NBA league revenues have increased 20.2 percent over the six-year term of the expired CBA.  Or 3.3 percent annually.

By the NBA's own numbers, revenues over this CBA grew faster than the average salary did. That bullet point is, unfortunately, missing from the NBA's release. Understandable, of course, as it hurts the NBA's case that player salaries and not self-imposed other expenses are to blame for the league's claimed losess.


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I NEVER thought Adelman would even interview. If we hire him, MAN what an offseason we've had. Got Rubio, drafted D-Will, hire Adelman. With all of that, we may even be able to grab a competent FA too.

It's exciting to be a T-Wolves fan?!
 
I NEVER thought Adelman would even interview. If we hire him, MAN what an offseason we've had. Got Rubio, drafted D-Will, hire Adelman. With all of that, we may even be able to grab a competent FA too.

It's exciting to be a T-Wolves fan?!
 
Originally Posted by Shady4Life

I NEVER thought Adelman would even interview. If we hire him, MAN what an offseason we've had. Got Rubio, drafted D-Will, hire Adelman. With all of that, we may even be able to grab a competent FA too.

It's exciting to be a T-Wolves fan?!
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Don't mean !%*$ if it doesn't translate to W's.  Won't mean twice as much !%*$ if there's no season either.
 
Originally Posted by Shady4Life

I NEVER thought Adelman would even interview. If we hire him, MAN what an offseason we've had. Got Rubio, drafted D-Will, hire Adelman. With all of that, we may even be able to grab a competent FA too.

It's exciting to be a T-Wolves fan?!
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Don't mean !%*$ if it doesn't translate to W's.  Won't mean twice as much !%*$ if there's no season either.
 
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