Comments on: Preseason: Thunder 87, Mavs 83

By: Darnell Mayberry

Darnell Mayberry — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:49:48 +0000

Peter, making the playoffs always helps. And deep playoff runs can indeed offset a rising payroll. Unfortunately, I don’t have knowledge of exact numbers. But as it’s been explained to me in the past, simply making the playoffs can be the difference between a season in the red and one in the black. However, one important thing to remember is every revenue stream available to the Thunder is less than other big-market teams. That includes advertising and sponsorship revenues, as well as its television contract and gate receipts. So a $100 million payroll in New York, for example, is not the same on the purse strings as it would be in OKC. -DM-

By: Wednesday Bolts – 12.21.11 | Daily Thunder.com

Wednesday Bolts – 12.21.11 | Daily Thunder.com — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:22:15 +0000

[...] Darnell Mayberry on last night’s game: “Cole Aldrich got the minutes ahead of Nazr Mohammed and ended up stealing the show tonight. Already, Aldrich looks tons better than he did last year. Tonight, he blocked four shots, tied Perk with a team-high eight boards, tied Westbrook with a game-high three steals and added six points (including a surprisingly sweet reverse layup) to his stat line. If I had to describe Cole’s performance tonight in a word, it’d be active.” [...]

By: cong ty du lich

cong ty du lich — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:00:13 +0000

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:31:46 +0000

Nice post, as always… I’ve got a question about the economics of keeping the core in tact/small market/luxury tax debate. Doesn’t the team stand to gain huge additional profits with the deep playoff run not only of last season, but the ones anticipated for the next 5+ years?? Wouldn’t those profits offset the losses of a rising payroll, even one that creeps towards or even exceeds the luxury tax threshold? Wouldn’t that, then, make it worthwhile, economically speaking, to keep the core in-tact, no matter the cost?? (Kind of like what we’re seeing in Memphis, with 3 guys set to make over $13 mil p/year for the next several seasons, not even including Conley’s contract). I mean, this isn’t like the Knicks having the leagues highest payroll with one of the worst teams during the Isaiah era… Anyways, thanks for keeping us in the know, Darnell!!