Traded by San Antonio to Seattle and immediately released, Barry returns to the Spurs. The NBA needs a new rule. Players that are traded and released should not be able to sign with their former team for the remainder of the season.
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I miss when sports trades were about acquiring better players and not about contracts.
We were lucky and actually had one of those this off-season--the "Dude We're Getting a Delmon" trade. I'm not so sure we got the better players, but basically the whole trade involved young players under team control for a long time.
Just about the only way to really get around the problem of so many trades being about contracts is to pay everyone the same amount of money. Or make the league pay salaries instead of teams.
I thought there WAS a rule -- 30 days. That was the report re: Stackhouse when he was included in the Jason Kidd deal, right?
Yeah, there is a 30 day rule. Barry can't return until March 21, but he's decided to come back to the Spurs.
With this, the Van Horn shenanigans, the mess in Seattle, and all of the buyout crap going on, some of the NBA's flaws have really come to the surface this month.
Good thing the Western Conference Playoffs could be one of the best, most competitive 8-team fields in league history.
The whole salary cap in the NBA seems like a bit of sham. If you take a look at the variation in NBA team salaries, it's not a whole lot better than it is in baseball. The main difference is that you don't have the really extreme outliers like the Rays and Yankees. But even then, the Mavs pay about 57% over the league median and the Yankees pay about 49% over the league median. So the bigger difference is at the low end of the scale, where the Rays pay 29% below the league median and the Bobcats pay 79% below the league median. Of course, that doesn't prevent the NBA from having teams that don't compete year-in and year-out.