SmudgeHog
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Also, who fucking cares if a team is bought or not?
The issue is player cost. When you buy proven players, you pay a premium - and therefore you have less money for the rest of your team.
If you develop the talent yourself, and use the draft, you can suddenly have players who are worth 10x their salary, for a few years, and will have a golden period of being able to afford everyone, until their contracts balloon and you can only afford a few of them.
Therefore the ceiling for home-developed teams is much higher, longer, than for teams that buy proven talent, who will almost always have a big weakness somewhere, or at least someone willing to take almost nothing in salary to compensate for the high paid acquisitions at the other end. This leads to unbalanced teams, if you aren't very careful.
The warriors wont be able to keep the same salaries for their top 12 players for 5 years... in a couple of years they will need to give raises to the top level guys, and may need to become less deep of a team. Unless they trade Curry for four 1st round draft picks or something a la RGIII.
I mean, Tristan Thompson's salary is the same as Stephen Curry's and Harrison Barnes -combined-
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