BlackRedGold said:
Did I say fold the teams?
No, I said SELL the teams.
If the team cannot be sold, the franchise is revoked and an expansion franchise granted to the best bidder.
Yeah? Sell them to who? A forced sale of a team every year is ludicrous, and really demonstrates the pro-PA members' common sense. This is almost as bad as that cap based on season performance idea.
Why would anybody want to buy the worst franchise in the league, when there are some pretty good teams (Dallas, Anaheim) which are openly for sale with
no buyers? The worst team in the league will usually be at or near the bottom the next year too. Who wants to buy a crappy team they will probably have to sell next year because of losses or a forced sale? Fans won't shell out for season tickets because of poor team quality, unstable ownership and the team might move after being sold. No season ticket sales, falling franchise values (which would hurt the rest of the league) and stubborn players demanding 75% of the revenues? This franchise would
not be sustainable, and would be worthless because nobody would be willing to spend money just to lose money. Actually, that's the way it is right now for some teams in this "perfect" CBA world. And it needs to be fixed.
Eventually the values of each "worst of the year" franchise would get devalued to the point where it will get real silly real fast. The teams will have to be scrapped. Eventually we'll be left with just a handful of teams, then a couple. The players on the other teams? Bye bye. TV deal? Bye bye. Fan support? Bye bye. Whoever's left on these two teams will have to play for
less money. Not the ideal for the union. Unless they want to see a union of just two teams.