Finances Driving the Personnel Strategy?

[Kingster]

The Kings look like they are going to be hurting bigtime at the box office this year. Maybe next year also (the economy could suck for two years instead of one). So do you think they are going to unload salaries (Miller?) mainly to unload salaries? Will that add to their motivation to unload both him and Salmons sooner rather than later? It's interesting to me that their youth movement currently dovetails with poor financial returns. After all, if they get younger, don't they also cut down their expenses? Then the economy comes back in a couple of years (hopefully), people have more disposable income to buy tickets, and voila, they pay up the bucks for a FA or two and resign some of the youngins to larger long-term contracts. So maybe the Artest experiment was done to put more butts in the seats to increase revenue, but that failed. So now they figure they can't increase revenue anytime soon with a bigtime stud so they cut expenses with the youth movement. Make sense?

 

[kennadog]

I follow your thinking, but, regardless of the economy, it was time to break it down and rebuild, because we had a team going nowhere fast.

 

[bajaden]

The Kings look like they are going to be hurting bigtime at the box office this year. Maybe next year also (the economy could suck for two years instead of one). So do you think they are going to unload salaries (Miller?) mainly to unload salaries? Will that add to their motivation to unload both him and Salmons sooner rather than later? It's interesting to me that their youth movement currently dovetails with poor financial returns. After all, if they get younger, don't they also cut down their expenses? Then the economy comes back in a couple of years (hopefully), people have more disposable income to buy tickets, and voila, they pay up the bucks for a FA or two and resign some of the youngins to larger long-term contracts. So maybe the Artest experiment was done to put more butts in the seats to increase revenue, but that failed. So now they figure they can't increase revenue anytime soon with a bigtime stud so they cut expenses with the youth movement. Make sense?

Considering that the economy went south after they had already commited to the rebuild, that doesn't fly. I don't think they had a choice, but to rebuild, economy or not.

Rebuilding means youth on the team. Rebuilding means lower fan attendance. The two go hand in hand. You can look at it as a chicken and egg thing if you want to. In other words, bandaids wern't making the team better and attendance was starting to drop, so, we might as well just bite the bullet and rebuild. Or, they realized that what they were doing wasn't going to get them back to be a serious contender, and they decided to rebuild, and as a result, the attendance dropped.

If their smart. And I think the Maloofs are smart guys. You don't say to yourself, gee, we need to rebuild, but lets put it off till the economy is in the dumps. That way we can really lose attendance and money. I think the economy is just a coincidence. A bad one perhaps, but a coincidence just the same.