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168956.54 in reply to 168956.53
Date: 3/23/2011 4:49:02 AM
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First time ever someone in ABBL carrying over a million in salary?

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168956.55 in reply to 168956.54
Date: 3/23/2011 4:57:18 AM
Koopasaurus
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hemmati will solidify his inside up, WA has played his card, not its up to BLS and others to show their hand.

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168956.56 in reply to 168956.55
Date: 3/23/2011 5:44:08 AM
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after first robbing a bank ....... although I guess in Dire's case he can just use his GM button and top up his bank balance ;)

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168956.57 in reply to 168956.56
Date: 3/26/2011 3:25:15 AM
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Haha bryce is just trying to buy another championship. He's realised he can't beat the rest of us fair and square and with the new rules where you don't have to pay salaries if you're out of the finals, he won't lose too much if it doesn't work for him.

It might take another season or so but eventually he'll run out of money though and have to start making smart decisions instead of just expensive ones ;)

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168956.58 in reply to 168956.57
Date: 3/26/2011 3:14:50 PM
Koopasaurus
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Like it or not I wish I could do what bryce does, but I dont have the means to do so.. so it looks like I'll be going back to div2 =(

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168956.59 in reply to 168956.58
Date: 4/2/2011 7:39:49 PM
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Geez, spirit of competition much bryce? I think we all knew that if anyone, it'd be bryce that would be the one to exploit the new "no paid salaries in the offseason once you're out of the finals" rule and try to buy a championship but 1.67mil salaries is going a bit over the top isn't it?


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168956.60 in reply to 168956.59
Date: 4/2/2011 8:53:59 PM
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Salaries mean nothing Dire, WA is still the underdog, you have 1 hand on the cup already and if you lose it will be a choke, surely your GM button will get you over the line!

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168956.61 in reply to 168956.60
Date: 4/2/2011 8:57:11 PM
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yeah but you're forgetting he is the master of the BB economy - he knew the market was going to crash and cashed in his chips at the right time!

I figure he could have won it without the extra 400k in salary but i guess he wanted to make sure.

There's a whole lot of ways to win a championship....he just picked the most expensive and unsustainable one!

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168956.62 in reply to 168956.60
Date: 4/2/2011 8:59:20 PM
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yeah but you're forgetting he is the master of the BB economy - he knew the market was going to crash and cashed in his chips at the right time!

I figure he could have won it without the extra 400k in salary but i guess he wanted to make sure.

There's a whole lot of ways to win a championship....he just picked the most expensive and unsustainable one!

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168956.63 in reply to 168956.62
Date: 4/3/2011 6:45:16 AM
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It doesn't need to be sustainable. He only needs the guys for 3 weeks them dump most of them back on the market before he goes bankrupt. In the meantime he has won a championship ..... no different from NBA teams loading up just before the trade deadline like Bibby being traded and waived and then landing in Miami.

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168956.64 in reply to 168956.63
Date: 4/3/2011 6:58:36 AM
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NBA has a salary cap though. Miami can still play with Bibby and all their current roster next season if they want to.

I don't think it's any secret that this team isn't sustainable and half of them won't be around after the finals, that's kind of the point. He has more than double the salaries of any other team and even triple some of the ABBL team salaries now. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of strategy, planning, training, even playing at all etc if someone is just going to buy the championship at the end of the season.

The only upside is that all that money he hoarded after tanking a season HAS to be just about gone by now.

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