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Years ago

Sengstock - Sixers & The Cap

I speak of Adelaide because that is the team I am involved with but if it only had a 2nd tier team, then you would have to assume that the better players like Ballinger, Schenscher, Holmes, Bruce, imports etc would not stay here but look for a more lucrative role in a 1st tier team elsewhere. I don't agree with reducing the quality as that would not bring the fans in. From what I understand the 36ers would be made up only of players like Burdon, Hoban, perhaps Davidson, Cooper, Winitana and then some of the better ABA players. As passionate a fan of the 36ers that I am, if my opinion is any indication, I would not be supporting a team like that. We already have enough divisions in NBL, ABA, A grade juniors etc down the line. I am happy to watch ABA games to fill in the basketball need in the NBL off season, but always look forward to the 36ers.

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Years ago

Isaac, do you think the 2nd tier league would attract supporters when there is a superior league to follow? I think we somehow have a 2nd tier already in ABA and there is no where near enough people supporting it even with a salary cap of $800K. I am not quite sure how a 2 tier league would work and whether there would be any point in having it. If there were 2 teams in Adelaide, the 36ers with a salary cap of $1.2m and a 2nd tier team on a cap of $800K, I know where my interest would be. I don't play basketball so my interest is on entertainment value. Entertainment would have to be superior on the $1.2m cap as it would attract the more skilled players.

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Years ago

The salary cap at $1.2m is unsustainable for the League at this present moment. It goes against all the safeguards they are trying to put in place. I would imagine players to be more interested at this point in time in having a league to play for than an over inflated salary. Not to say they will play for nothing but around the $800K mark is more workable.

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Beantown

Years ago

I hope for two things:

1) the consortium finds the money they need and the Sixers are able to play this season.

2) common sense prevails on the salary cap and it is set quite a bit lower than it was last season. ie, at a level where player payments don't cripple the ability of organisations to at least break even.

C'mon Larry and the consortium - get these things done and done right and we can all go back to enjoying a financially stable league where the focus is on the court, not whether the owner can afford to pay the bills!

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Anonymous

Years ago

I might be grasping, but that's sounding positive.

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