"We had a real bad salary-cap overall picture.
Bad salary cap management derailed previous champions like San Francisco and Dallas, ruining the franchises for years, with the 49ers, despite massive bloodletting, currently stuck $15 million over the $67.4 million cap.
To paraphrase Latrell Sprewell, there is little margin for error without their sort-of center, and what was General Manager Scott Layden thinking last summer when he made a bad salary cap situation worse without addressing the Knicks' sorrowful lack of size?
In the meantime, they were in a bad salary cap position and – oh, yeah, the quarterback situation is a mess and the best player on the team wants more money to sign an extension than the owner is willing to pay and so they may trade him.
"The economy is bad here, salaries are low," she said.
The London site's discussions, which involve commuters mostly in their 20's and 30's, tend to start with a gripe about the tube and then veer off quickly into general palaver about subjects like low salaries, bad television shows, greatest rock hits of the 1980's, abject drunkenness and sex, with a heavy emphasis on sex.
Following the season, Olajuwon requested a trade in part because of his bad contract; his salary was considerably low for a top center, and his contract specifically forbade re-negotiation.
"They are more suspicious from a philosophical point of view of big government as an answer to many issues and are suspicious of Wall Street institutionally and not just their high salaries, and bad practices".
The rush of N.B.A. money has made the deal the players got at the end of the 2012 lockout — which, with its restrictive salaries, seemed bad enough at the time — look downright appalling.
"Now, however, not only has the corporate sector far fewer jobs to offer, but they also look increasingly unattractive – tarnished as they are by bad practice, and with salaries, pensions and perks that seem inadequate compensation for the high stress and long hours required," Baron said.
