Personally I don't think the salaries should be released to anyone except NBL and club management. Don't really care what other sports and codes do - it's really no one business.

The only people that really needs to be disclosed to are each NBL club and NBL officials give transparency over who has exceeded the cap, who the Marquee players are and how much luxury tax is accrued.

What's with the anons having a crack at Koberulz for asking a legitimate question? Have read this forum daily for years but hardly ever post due to that sort of bullshit.

Why is it? If the NBL state they're going to release it at a certain time they should..

If your employer tells you they will give you a pay rise at a certain date and they dont do you forget it or question it?

For once, I'm in agreement with Kober.

(And oh yeah, anonytrolls crawling out from under their rocks, what a shocker.)

The implementation of the soft-cap and related rules is the biggest impact on the league this season. The league refused to release any details till the 3/4 mark (which I thought was crap anyway.) We;;, now we're there.

If it's just a matter of a couple of days, sure fine. But this has been mishandled from the start, so I'm not holding my breath.

As things currently stand, it appears that they have destroyed any remaining integrity in the league. A couple of teams have obviously massively exceeded the soft-cap, and they are supposed to be reigned in by massive penalties that are then distributed to the poorer teams.
The fear is that the numbers will be fudged to lessen the tax, and that the money will not be distributed but just go into a slush fund. Hence why anybody who cares about the league is waiting anxiously for the announcement.

Transparency in salaries and expenditure and independent valuing to deal with potential BSing is what the NBL emphasized, so they'd better do it at some point. I'm not too concerned if they do it after the season/finals so long as it's quite soon after.

I do wonder how a) they decide on the values when it seems a team is BSing and b) how the distribution works. I hope they aren't improvising and there's a legitimate system

"Again no one really cares"

Given the posts in threads about this earlier this season as well as this one, this is manifestly wrong. I also suspect an owner missing finals would also be interested in the team's salaries relative to teams who make finals. It might provoke an interesting discussion with coaching and management staff.

As to Koberulz's question, the late changes to rosters by a couple of teams may have slowed down the publication of team salaries?

As to identifying players, I thought Loeliger said something about not providing names but just the salaries within each team? This was mid season when questions were asked about this. Also not sure whether they were going to be the actual salaries or the deemed salaries?

They never said straight after or set a date for the release, after the 21st game could mean at the end of the season, could mean next week, could mean anything in between

I assume they will announce along with how much tax clubs have to pay or something.

I agree with they said they would do it, so they should, but they never promised a date so be patient, im sure they will.

Again no one really cares.

The league is as even as it has ever been so the salary cap hasn't favoured one individual team over another.

Maybe cats fans looking for some sort of excuses for the terrible play this season?

Dazz just because you put a name to what you write doesn't make you superior,

"The NBL isnt his employer....brilliant example dude"

True, but all the other teams are employers and i bet want to know who is getting paid what??? ;)

*crickets*

I've consigned myself to the fact that 3 or 4 teams are going to be able to spend what they want, when they want with no oversight whatsoever for the next few weeks. Whether this actually translates into success for those teams remains to be seen.

Kudos to the wildcats for the masterclass they've put on in the past few weeks but you can't tell me that they didn't buy their way into the grand final series.

Do you think perhaps this was a "great idea" but proved more difficult to put into action?

I'm not a lawyer, but I have always wondered if publicising an individual's salary would breech privacy rules?

The alternative I guess was the proposal to have a committee assign values, but I never really understood how that was going to work.

I suppose that as long as the clubs are made to pay the tax and the money is redistributed as promised then we can live without knowing all the details.

I'd like to think that the "assigned" values could be made public, since they're not necessarily what the players are actually making.
Either way I don't really care whether I see the figures or not, just as long as the cap exceeders pay their dues and the clubs that need it get their share.

Luuuc, I agree with both comments, I've just never been clear on how they were going to assign values to such different players, and do it without all the teams complaining.

Do you think perhaps this was a "great idea" but proved more difficult to put into action?

I'm not a lawyer, but I have always wondered if publicising an individual's salary would breech privacy rules?

*waits*

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This issue should already be put to bed by now. Teams need to know what the deal is because they ought to be in 2017/18 preparation mode already.

In theory it sounded like a great idea, but it just turned out to be one of those things that the NBL didn't think through properly and acted before they should have and they're just trying to ignore it now and hope they can get away without publicly dealing with it...

As said above, as long as the teams who spent over the cap pay their dues and the teams that should be getting the money get it, then that's ok, it was just mismanaged from the start...