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Yes ...... and no. Revenue matters to the players, because the more revenue that exists the more money they can make. They're all for revenue maximization. There's a pretty decent argument that owners don't have an interest in maximizing revenue because it ultimately impacts small-revenue markets negatively by putting more pressure on them to spend money they don't have. Certainly if I'm an owner of a team in the lower half of revenues, I don't want to keep adding teams that generate [a lot] more revenue because then that drives the salary cap up and forces me to spend more money and reduces my chances to make a profit..
This is why Barroway would have been in favor of expansion to Vegas. He knew he was in as a short timer. So, his 16M from the expansion fee would be greater than the losses he would incur as a result of the cap rising. There is a break-even point there somewhere for small market owners. Their share of expansion money won't go away in a year, but maybe 10..... (Without doing the math -- just for idea's sake).