Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for August 04, 2022

Lot of mystery here. Is there something funny in this story that I haven’t been following? Or even heard of before this?

“The NBA gives the money to charity” and then the NBA uses the gift as a tax shelter.

The “NBA Owners’ Assistance Fund” is a very worthy charity, helping poor, deprived owners of NBA teams to make ends meet.

NFL owner Robert Kraft regularly gives to Massage Envy.

Hard to say if Silver or Goodell is a bigger A-hole.

To the rich and powerful, charity is their secret weapon to avoiding the IRS.

Tampering with another team’s player is a bigger crime than a quarterback “tampering” with a woman?

As Moe once said to Shemp—“One of us is nuts and it can’t be you”.

Did you know Bob Feller once walked 208 men in a season?

Try getting a job today with that statistic.

His point about the luxury tax is valid, though. If you draft and develop a player and he becomes good enough to command a superstar contract, you shouldn’t be penalized if you pay him what he’s worth. The Warriors had the highest payroll in the NBA in ‘21-’22, and they paid almost as much in luxury tax as in actual salaries, but Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green* have never played for any other team. If you want to go out and buy a LeBron James or a Kevin Durant, sure, expect to pay a sur-tax. But when they’re home-grown, you shouldn’t take an extra hit to keep them.

*Draymond wants a max contract this year; he may not get that, but he’ll probably still be a Warrior. He’s more valuable for them than he would be for any other team…unless it’s worth $100,000,000 to some other team simply to break up the Warriors’ core.

The favorite NBA charity is China.

It’s probably a political contribution.

The NBA believes that “charity begins at home” and, thus, keeps the donation to distribute amongst themselves.

Be nice to have a reporter dig into this one like the one who tracked down That Candidate’s LIE about contributing a million dollars to ‘veterans’.

The stupid owners are complaing about the stupid commish enforcing the stupid rules they stupidly agree to follow.Clear enough?