Great.
You're nuts. (SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE IN THAT PREVIOUS SENTENCE?)
Sure, but they'll still and always be operating at the whim of the big-market teams. If a big-market team wants a free agent, that big-market team will always be able to choose to have him, because it will always have the option of outbidding its small-market competition.
Removing the salary cap doesn't change the fact that, however much the Kings might offer a player, the Lakers will always, always, always, always, forever and ever, world without end, amen, be able to offer that same player at least as much. And even if the rules were structured in such a way that the Lakers couldn't…
Or, hell, look at MLB. Sure, there's a diverse set of recent champions, but that's not because small-market teams are able to bid against the big-market ones for player talent; they're flatly not able to do that. It's because there are some very well-run smaller-market teams that have figured out how to operate with…
The salary cap is undeniably a bad thing, but this argument in opposition to it doesn't make much sense. The idea that getting rid of the cap will give small-market teams a way to offer players something big-market teams can't offer doesn't stand up to even a moment's scrutiny: those big-market teams will still be…
