NBA Cancels First Two Weeks
- Thread starter Ironhead
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I think it ends in january. Alot of shared revenues only come playoff time (proportionately greater then say nfl).
Owners will want to get serious by then. Some players may feel the pinch. The conditions for reaching an agreement are much higher then.
Owners will want to get serious by then. Some players may feel the pinch. The conditions for reaching an agreement are much higher then.
I think it ends on Valentines Day.
Wont miss it with the NFL, CFL, and NCAA Football and Basketball on.
Wont miss it with the NFL, CFL, and NCAA Football and Basketball on.
Two words-who cares......
With NFL, NHL, MLB playoffs in full swing I sure won't lose any sleep. NBA just go away for a year!
With NFL, NHL, MLB playoffs in full swing I sure won't lose any sleep. NBA just go away for a year!
Even without all the other options, I would still find the negotiations more interesting than what goes on on the court.
I gotta agree. There is a lot of apathy with these labor negotiations. I'm a basketball fan but it wouldn't really bother me if they came back in February.
People were really cared about the NFL lockout unlike the NBA situation.
Wrong. That is but one tiny part of the issue. And in fact, the Miami Heat were a boon to the NBA.
You also have your facts wrong. There was a Larry Bird rule in place where the home town team could pay more over a longer period of time. It also had a flexible cap (and mid-level exemption and veteran's bi-annual exemption) to allow teams to go over the cap to keep their stars around with a good supporting cast. Honestly, if you wish to be taken seriously in a discussion about the NBA labour issue, you should at least have your facts straight.
I think that I'm a basketball fan, and if you read any serious basketball writers, you know that they are also fans. Almost everyone - hardcore and casual fan alike - agreed that last season was one of the best and most exciting in over 20 years. Ratings were up across the board. There were numerous teams with legitimate chances to win the NBA title (San Antonio, LA Lakers, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Orlando) as well as a number of up-and-coming teams (Denver, Oklahoma City, Memphis) that also had a shot at winning if the breaks fell their way. That's 10 teams. One third of the league. There have been six different NBA Champions in the last 9 seasons. Again, your facts are wrong and your "mega team" theory is factually incorrect - New York sucked; Miami was great, but still didn't win it all. 50-50.
Was Dallas anyone's favourite before last season began? Or even when the playoffs began? Yet they won the title.
Fact is, the owners - many of which are extremely successful in the real world - turn into idiots when running sports franchises. Not sure why that is exactly, but we've seen too many cases of that for it to be coincidence. Which makes me wonder how much money these people really are "losing," because guys like that do not go into any venture and lose money.
The fact that you want players to be slaves to owners makes you selfish, not a fan. You seem to think that being drafted by a team means they owe that team loyalty for life. Bullshit. I applaud players for leaving bad situations and actually showing that they care about winning and not just collecting paycheques. Both Lebron James and Chris Bosh took way less than maximum deals to try to form a winning team in an incredibly fun city. Good for them.
Dan Gilbert was a terrible owner. He hired a string of incompentant GMs and mediocre-to-bad coaches. He meddled in team affairs and acted as an enabler to Lebron James, his under-contract employee. He allowed them to either overpay or bring on overvalued "talent" in an effort to appease a one player that was under control until summer 2010. When Lebron left (albeit in a classless manner) he did so after fulfilling his contract and he did it because he had no respect for his boss, the GM or the coaches. The team was at or over the salary cap and had a bunch of scrubs. Put it this way, without Lebron, the team dropped by more than 40 wins. One player. That says more about the franchise than it does about LBJ. (Well, it also says how good Lebron James the player is.)
Why would I cheer for the owners? They have cost certainty; the second largest global sport in terms of viewership + reach; multiple revenue streams - basketball and non-basketball related; 41 home games (+ preseason and playoffs); local, national and international television deals; and, sweetheart stadium deals (most) If they can't manage their business, that's on them. Good owners hire good basketball people and let them do their jobs. Bad owners... see above and below.
I love the Raptors, but I would never begrudge a player for not wanting to come here/wanting to leave - it's a lousy team without direction, a poor GM (I think we can safely say the BC era was much ado about nothing), an average coach and a bad roster. Chris Bosh was right to leave - this team had no chance of contending for years, if at all. Again, did he leave the "right" way? Maybe not. But he's an immature young man. We all did stupid things at that age - and we didn't have cameras and microphones in our faces when doing it. But he left to win, not to go to the highest bidder.
The bold part of your quote below says it all.
Silly boy, I don't have feelings for you one way or another. While you may obsess over my posts when you're "work(ing) around the house", you are insignficant to me. But you're right, I don't respect the majority of your postings because they are not your own thoughts without referencing the source (I read a LOT of news too) and they are often factually incorrect, fanboy-ish and intellectually immature.
However, when anyone posts things on a public forum that 1) aren't true or 2) are not your own opinion, but posted like they are, I have every right to point that out.
The only personal comment I made in the above post was that your facts were wrong and you should temper your comments if and when that's the case. If you incorrectly post something as fact and have a strong opinion based on that, then how on Earth can you complain when called out on it?
I would suggest that you grow some thicker skin. But if you don't like it, you can got to your settings and put me on "Ignore." I'm a basketball fan and will not avoid threads just because you spend countless hours a day monopolizing them with someone else's thoughts and words. Nor will I not comment if you post things that are flat-out fallacies or that I find offensive.
And just because you posted that last line, I'm going to regularly post in the Raptors thread just to irritate you. As you stated, it is an open forum...
For all of your talk of ignoring me, you couldn't help but respond. Too funny...
Silly boy, I don't have feelings for you one way or another. While you may obsess over my posts when you're "work(ing) around the house", you are insignficant to me. But you're right, I don't respect the majority of your postings because they are not your own thoughts without referencing the source (I read a LOT of news too) and they are often factually incorrect, fanboy-ish and intellectually immature.
However, when anyone posts things on a public forum that 1) aren't true or 2) are not your own opinion, but posted like they are, I have every right to point that out.
The only personal comment I made in the above post was that your facts were wrong and you should temper your comments if and when that's the case. If you incorrectly post something as fact and have a strong opinion based on that, then how on Earth can you complain when called out on it?
I would suggest that you grow some thicker skin. But if you don't like it, you can got to your settings and put me on "Ignore." I'm a basketball fan and will not avoid threads just because you spend countless hours a day monopolizing them with someone else's thoughts and words. Nor will I not comment if you post things that are flat-out fallacies or that I find offensive.
Again, grow up - the point of a forum is to have discussion and back & forth. If anything, compared to you I add to the experience of TERB - I have my own thoughts. You're a RSS feed minus the actual sources who spends far too much time spamming the Sports section.
And just because you posted that last line, I'm going to regularly post in the Raptors thread just to irritate you. As you stated, it is an open forum...
(Says the guy with 15,000 posts and zero original thoughts.)
Here's a tissue and a pacifier. Straight from mommy and daddy's basement...
