The Los Angeles Lakers’ Tax Bill Could Reach $94.5 Million in 2014

Are you fucking with me?
.You get more benefits to live in a remote place like Alaska in real life, while in the NBA you get more benefits to do a job in a bigger market.
-(Hence, you make more money in Alaska, then you do in Pennsylvania, coupled with your company paying for everything)
.When in the NBA, you live in a big market, you get paid typically, a higher average salary, while also benefitting from increased revenue related opportunities. The Cost of Living not being as much of a factor, because again, you are in the NBA.
.When in the Real World, you make more money doing the same job in a bigger city, but it is directly related to cost of living,
- Rather than being paid more (like the NBA) being related to the Market, and your company making a higher profit because of it.
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.Competition dictates pay, in the NBA the better the player the more they get paid, and the more likely they are to get paid the better money in a bigger market, because that market makes MORE MONEY.
.Competition dictates pay, in the Real World (or America i should say) in the exact opposite way. In a bigger market there is more competition, so there is a person willing to do the same labor for less money (in relation to cost of living), while in contrast, you are offered more money (in relation to cost of living) in a small market (Alaska) to do the same job that you would be doing in a place of higher competition (Pennsylvania).
-Now ofcourse there are jobs that require the very best, that offer an extreme amount of money compared to a smaller market (like a Marketing company for example) – like Marketing. But this is an extremely small portion of the population. You can’t compare a job & pay that one in 1,000,000 people may have to the majority of the job market, that’s a logical fallacy.
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And I asked you if you were high, because this concept is very easy to understand.

calling someone ignorant is not an insult. It’s an observation. I mean I understand how you can take it as an insult, but it is really no different than me saying “you don’t know what you’re talking about” – obviously, you are sensitive to that, so i apologize for offending you.

Nbks arguing that he knows my life better than I do. As well as anything else. It drives hhim crazy that everyone here doesn’t acknowledge his superior intellect. I’ve never been called ignorant in my life actuallly, who knew it only took one conversation with a pseudo-intellectual for me to finally realize that I may have a learning disability. Who knew, besides nbk of course

but NBK retloc’s was only one example,in the NBA,a lot of top free agents get to to be offered a lot of money from various(including smaller market) teams. Only the players logically would choose the bigger market teams but not the case in point for lebron,bosh and even wade when they decided to join forces right last 2010 right..?its a better location(Miami), but the bigger perks being offered that they didnt take lied elsewhere.

How many people have you called ignorant to their face, compared to online?

it’s not always the case for both NBA and the real world. Scottie Pippen and MJ werent paid big money earlier in their careers.Even when they started to win chips. MJ earned his through endorsements. ANd Chicago didnt have too much to do with that. Scottie though is now broke just like some other retirees.And thier location in real life after NBA didnt have to do much of anything for that. Also,in the real world,esp.after global recession started by America, a lot of jobs has shifted overseas. Mostly to China. I woulndt say its that a bad location..but i woulnt give my balls to relocate their if offered a job and i dont think they’d offer much anyway since them being ultra cheap is the only reason labor has shifted there. And yet they have now surpassed US in economy.its an unfavorable location with its population problem and low wages and yet it’s business is thriving. I wonder why is that

Why what’s the difference? Can you put that in bullets so it would be easier for you to discuss.

Very true. best example is the team that shares thier own turf. Why has it not reached the same succes as it’s sister team? is it still all about location. let’s see how Brooklyn will fare since the Knicks being in a good location, has sucked for the better part of the decade.

And since you claim to be good at research, why don’t you support that claim by just putting the link here to where that information about the Clippers being profitable. Because I can’t seem to fathom that a team that Sucked that much is still being watched by a majority of LA fans rather than the Lakers. I think it says a lot about the fans being ignorant then rather than most people commenting here. I mean thats atleast 18,000 people for 41 games.

LeBron, Dwyane, & Bosh came together for winning. Not money. = Unrelated.
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If a player chooses a small market over a big market that is a personal choice, if they are offered the same* money from both, it is plainly obvious they will personally make more money in the bigger market. As they will have more external revenue opportunities.

if my honesty is demeaning then sure. I mean you can take my statements out of context and act like i just said them to insult you, that’s fine with me. That doesn’t mean it’s true though.
- I said you were ignorant because you didn’t know what you were talking about. It’s not an insult, it’s an adjective, meaning, simply, “lacking knowledge or awareness”
-I asked if you were high because you seemed like you couldn’t to stay on topic.
-I said you lacked common sense because i literally (still) think it is common sense to understand the difference between a good/big market and bad/small when the discussion is related to the NBA.
. Sorry that you took offense. I am just honest.

i agree in the considerable amount of time i have frequent this site and i have ID’ed nbk as that kind of person who resorts to calling names or labelling people. He also seems to get off by correcting people first and baiting them into arguements. His last card will always be allegedly stating facts to back up his point but for the most part has not given an exact link to it. He has even done that to AllenP a lot of times.He just simply states if off to you as “it is just easy as googling it”.Which most of the time,half the people may never do since I’d think they won’t care for the most part. I will give an example later on but i like this guy to comment first. He usually starts off by picking his arguements(this nbk guy) He comments by correcting something of your opinion and gets/baits you to respond. He only chooses the one he finds easier to defend. Every time you reply he’s focuses his response on a narrowing point leading to support his arguement, the one which he has chose easier to defend. Also if you provide an example, in which case more people here are to lazy to check, he will use that against you in the most close-minded way in which he will make sure you would think there’s no other possible means to exemplify it further. Amazing this guy. Its like he’s a frustated debater dropped out from his college team. He always want to argue and call you ignorant,crazy,delusioned and other mentally-demeaning words. Its like this site was made only for him or he wants to run for congress here.I wonder what this guy really looks like and what he does or done to him in the real world in a consistent basis. I wonder what his boss,college prof,his own father,mother,girlfriend,buddy did to him to make him come off as trying hard to be supreme in this site.

I never said the majority of LA fans/residents watch the Clippers. But LA is a HUGE market, they don’t need even close to the % of the population that a normal team in an average market needs – http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/32/basketball-valuations-11_Los-Angeles-Clippers_322952.html
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/32/basketball-values-09_Los-Angeles-Clippers_322952.html

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/32/nba08_Los-Angeles-Clippers_322952.html

- if you have trouble reading that let me know. don’t confuse team value with profits.
- You can read the Skinny on each page if you need a recap.
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The team profits, regularly. And more than most teams. Their owner is just cheap. So they don’t do it like a normal competitive franchise would.

What’s classissism? No jokes, just want to know.

I didn’t take offense I was entertained, the reason I can’t stay on topic is because my mind is always racing from one tangent to the next. I do have a hard time staying focused, whether its because im naturally hyperactive or bipolar manicdepressive is neither here nor there. I was merely trying to communicate to you that insulting to win is an insult to yourself. If you were honest you would own your actions for what they were, meant to demean me and validate you. That’s fine by me, am not offended in the slightest, im secure in my self percepption for the most part and understand that me allowing someone else to do anything to me is ridicuous. What you said reflected on you poorly and didn’t hep make your point. I was ignorant about the clippers, point taken.

LOL whatever you want to believe. If i wanted to insult you i would have called you an idiot and been done with it. but i didn’t. Because i wasn’t insulting you.

Location . . . and the strength of your brand. And the ability/willingness of your owner to exceed the salary cap. Which requires wealth. Welcome back to the real world.

There’s a huge difference between saying that someone is ignorant – period – and saying that someone is ignorant about something.

The idea that people beong to different classes, ie the way the world is set up

Did you just say on this website that you are mentally-ill?
other than that im seeing your point clearly except that part that indeed you trail off about your emotions or thoughts. lot of people here dont have to listen to that dude.=) this is still a bball site u know. if you’re the better guy than nbk then you should just try to stay on point regardless if he’s demeaning. again, you personal issues..should just remain personal imo.

Are you serious? So cost of living is the only variable here? You realize wages aren’t just magically set, right? They’re a product of negotiation and profit-making economic structures. For example: you can have an especially strong union in one place, and the wages will be higher than they are in another place despite the cost of living being lower. Another example: you can have a shortage of labour in one place and an abundance of labour in another place, so not only will capital in that first location want to offer higher wages to attract new workers, but labour will be in a better position to negotiate higher wages (or leave). I could go on.

calling a person ignorant is not calling them a name like calling someone stupid is. if someone gets offended when i say they are ignorant about something i simply explain what i’m saying. just like i am doing here. really no difference.

You’re missing the point. Which is: there is no such thing as unbridled capitalism in our world. It’s always mediated by something. That mediation is always imperfect. So capitalist structures will continue to breed inequality. In the NBA, and in your “real world.” Now my dicking around on a basketball website is bleeding into my work, so I’ll call it quits on this debate.

i’m missing my own point? you realize you are responding TOO ME right? MY POINT was and is, it’s not because the Lakers have money that they are able to continually be successful as retloc originally hypothesized (guessed/said/thinks/whatever). It’s because of their location and smart business decisions. If I was the poorest person on earth and was just handed the Lakers and got to keep their front office, I would make a profit. It would have absolutely nothing to do with “The illusion of money will always be on their side at the end of the day. If we understand that the wholle concept of money was invented in order to place people in a caste, we know that their tax bill is irrelevant. Classissism at its finest in a convoluted fashion.” – if the Lakers were run poorly by the richest man ever, they would lose money. As he was arguing that just because they are the Lakers, they will make money, no matter how much they spend — because “money is an illusion”
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My point that the NBA is “outside the normal world” meant, plainly, having something doesn’t mean you will continue to have it. as there are rules in place (the collective bargaining agreement) that, in the “normal world” would be illegal, that enable teams to overtake others that are “haves” rather than keeping the “have nots” down.

LOL, ok buddy. If me explaining everything i said completely logically tells you that, then what else is there to do? Demand your cyber lunch money?