I am from Orlando so have no dogs in this race. However, with that said, I am a huge NBA fan.
The Russian dude (Prokhorov) comes to town with tons of money and he guarantees a championship in five years or less from a team (New Jersey Nets) who came close to setting the all time NBA record in losses for a season.
How can he justify that kind of thinking?
The NBA has a salary cap. HOWEVER, there is nothing to say that if someone came in to free agency and decided to purchase THREE max contract players, what kind of team could he put together?
James, Wade, and Bosch know each other very well, seem to like one another, and played together very well on the Olympic team. They all know they will get max deals, but the also all want to play on championship teams.
The NBA penalty for exceeding the salary cap is a dollar for dollar fine. There is no upward limit to how big the fine (cap excess) can be.
Prokhorov coming in from the outside with a totally different mind set could do some deals that would shake the NBA to the core.
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