Max Kellerman

And so the coaches' salaries exploded because their people are competitive.

They want the product on the floor to be as good as possible.

And they will find out ways if there's a cap and you have a gung-ho billionaire owner, they'll find out ways to circumvent the cap if possible.

I mean,

Jerry Jones, who ushered in the cap in football in the NFL, immediately circumvented it.

Day one, he's like, OK, they voted on it.

Great.

We have a salary cap.

Now we have Deion Sanders.

Wait, wait.

How's that possible?

Well, we're prorating money over time and blah, blah, blah.

And so it's not unpredictable that that would happen.

It's unethical, like in a strict sense, but I don't really care as a fan.

If I'm a Clippers fan, I'd be like, great, my owner's trying to win and circumvent the cap to make us better.

Well, it also didn't work.

Not only did it not work, but it shrouded the season with bad vibes to start, man.

Good for Presti, though, because for so many years, he was clearly better than almost everybody else.

Right?

For years.