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Originally Posted by Obsideon
My opinion to fix this issue is to hold the players accountable for their actions, they are the ones that signed these monster contracts in the first place. Then they want to breach their contract by pouting out of the city?... man up and play or risk LOSING money ... how about asking the player to PAY BACK the contract worth or how about benching them and never let them play for the X amount of seasons they are under contract for!
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You're misunderstanding the situation....Players are not wanting out of their contracts.....They are simply stating that they will not sign extensions with the current team they play on, so the team is left with the choice to either trade the player or let him walk for nothing....In my opinion, Dwight actually did Orlando a favour by opting into his player option for this year because it bought them more time to get a deal done...but the fact of the matter is that a player can go wherever he wants once he becomes a free agent...Only way to prevent this from happening is probably something like a hard-cap...The new CBA might do something, but that won't be for another few years at least as most of the big free agents signed their big contracts before the new CBA.
It's been this exact same situation for all the big names that did not want to sign an extension with their former teams: Carmelo, CP3, Dwight...
LeBron's situation could have been the same, but he apparently hadn't made 'the decision' yet on whether he wanted to stay or leave...In the end, he ended up leaving, giving Cleveland nothing to show for...That was a HUGE gamble for Cleveland to take, and now that we look at it, we'd obviously say that Cleveland was better off trading him earlier...