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NBL money not high enough: Brandt

Those people may not have left but probably laid off in cost cutting. And to say a watered down league with lesser players will be better is extremely optimistic. Depends I suppose if you like watching div 6 under 16s in the last minute when scores are tied at 22 each, exciting that last minute for all but the previous play is horseshit.

Yep Krislovic can entertain like Oliver, lmao.

Oliver is, just signed in Israel, that an entertainment factor gone.

I’ll certainly miss Casper and Bryce, entertaining stars those two. The balance of imports could be a lot worse or non existent, this could give some other good Australian players a shot on the positive side though.

Yep, it's going to be so much worse because a player who wasn't playing here anyway still won't be playing here.

League looking lot less interesting. Stars fill stadiums.

Teams can only afford what they can afford.

Yes so Sydney and Perth were happy to pay the full amount why are they being held back. It’s the way sport around the world operates. Lower the bottom end of the cap if you have to but leave the rest alone.

Teams can only afford what they can afford.

There’s a change in circumstance, the pay variation reflects that. If it means losing talent so be it, better than being unsustainable and crashing to become a broke league with unpaid debts and players getting screwed for payments

"Leaving will be difficult if there aren't flights." Are you serious?

No outbreaks in Vietnam either. I think North Korea as well ;)

If there's another outbreak in europe they could always go play in Tajikistan. There are no reported cases there and the sporting leagues are still in progress.

Fewer sponsors.
High unemployment.
Less disposable income.
Restrictions on crowd sizes.

Please tell me again how most nbl teams will meet their operating costs without these kinds of massive cuts? Player pay cuts are entirely justified which is why 45 out of 50 players opted in.

Olgun Oluc needs to get Moldovan's balls out of his mouth.

"Leaving will be difficult if there aren't flights." There are flights because several people returning to Australia in the last few days have had Covid. You can't keep making things up Kobe.

Leaving will be difficult if there aren't flights.

There will be a chance of the NBL surviving but certainly never in it's previous form.

Moldovan is only right if the league can pay more and still survive. Who does or does not end up playing here next season is irrelevant.

I think it proves Moldovan was right, pay cut to severe.

Whatever way he wants to see his net/gross income its the same, coming back to Australia is a massive hit when he is at his peak.

Can't blame him or anyone for wanting to avoid the NBL.

When you have reached the income he has, it is hard to come back down from that.

We wouldn't like to do it either.

I think the point he is making is that he doesn't have to pay the kind of taxes like he would in Australia, more money in his pocket, in addition to being paid more money generally anyway.

I don't have a problem with someone chasing the higher pay check.

Look at tennis players' "residence" - including the Aussies. Blatant tax haven - it's a disgrace!

Pretty sure he understands how it works. His salary here is gross, so not only are the base salaries less, he has to pay tax on top of it. It made perfect sense to me.

Don't worry Koberules said there will be no normal until mid next year. Brandt is talking shit clearly.

"I think if Brandt is unlikely to return to the NBL, then it almost would be impossible for the higher level Aussies based in Europe to return. This article would indicate that Euro leagues are going ahead and will be paying top dollar."

This is my take-away from it. With all respect to Brandt, if this class of player is saying the NBL is not an attractive proposition, then maybe there is some cause for concern about the standard of next year's league. Hopefully just a short term thing though.

I think if Brandt is unlikely to return to the NBL, then it almost would be impossible for the higher level Aussies based in Europe to return. This article would indicate that Euro leagues are going ahead and will be paying top dollar.

It will all be good when Cotton comes back as an Aussie. Fools.

Imports get paid in US dollars in the hand, Brandt would probably get between 20k and 30k a month, you work it out. Even before the pay cuts you can understand why he’s going back. He had a very good season in Italy by the way.

He left cause Trev said he was getting an import big and he would be coming off the bench. So he’ll consider the NBL, just not the wildcats

" Classic athlete brain." He has an agent who is an athlete?

30,000 people have died in Italy, but muh taxes

Brandt doesn't seem to understand he still pays tax in Italy it's just the deals are negotiated with players in nett not gross figures by the clubs. Classic athlete brain.

“ but if I play in Australia I have to pay tax”

God forbid we have to pay our taxes hey? What a shmuck

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