Re: Public reporting of NBA salaries

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

>Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:46:04 -0600 (MDT)
>From: TISDALE  ROBERT TODD <tisdaler@ucsub.Colorado.EDU>
>To: Celtics@igtc.COM
>Subject: Public reporting of NBA salaries
>
>
>So, here are my questions:  At some point in time was a
>decision made to make NBA salaries public knowledge, and if so, who 
made
>this decision?  Was it a condition of one of the Collective Bargaining
>Agreements?  If I am right and this did occur at some point in time, 
this
>one simple change may have caused many of the problems we see in 
today's
>NBA. 

Sorry I can't answer your questions, Rob, but I will say that even if 
player's salaries were confidential, certain agents would have enough 
knowlege to suggest to their clients that they need to ask for more 
money.  In fact, it might even strengthen the position of the major 
agents, since they would have the advantage of knowing about more 
clients.  In principle, though, I think we would all be far better off 
if we didn't know what athletes are making.

Jim

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com