Last you guys will hear from me on the matter, I promise
I can't stress enough how much I hate this change.
I've been on record many times as stating that unhealthy contracts are what we should be aiming to avoid, not create more of; and this change does precisely that. I don't support franchise tags in general in this league because that's a contract mechanism not found in the NBA, but that's an argument for another day. Focusing specifically on this tag, it creates absurdly unhealthy contracts for players who experience large spikes in production in a short period of time (happens frequently). Domantas Sabonis and Julius Randle, for instance, would earn close to the full franchise tag yearly value if subjected to free agency, but instead their owners will be given the option to keep them for *four* years at around $10m less per year than their true value. That is unhealthy for the league plain and simple. I say this all as someone who would be incentivized to use this exact tag on Ben Simmons.
If the point of the league is to work with the salary cap to acquire production at reasonable cost, then why are we arbitrarily introducing mechanisms to circumvent the salary cap? Sounds like many would just prefer no cap at all from that angle. It could be that I joined this league for reasons different than many others, but I joined with the intent to manage a team within a league that most closely mirrors the circumstances of managing an actual NBA franchise. With that being my motivation for joining, there is no reason for me to support this change.
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