Yeah - the lockout will happen. The thing that makes me the most sad is that minimum salaries are targeted. Seriously - saving $20K on 100 players? How about shaving $250K on 16 players? The net effect is the same, except for the fact that those sixteen players wouldn't even notice the difference in a weekly paycheck.
I can't believe I'm saying this...but go Stern. The players need to come back to reality. Hell, if they care that much, have the players have one person working with management to verify costs and revenues on each team. Then, stop using contracts and use profit-sharing.
Shouldn't we call it a strike? Is that word sound too socialist for the NBA players and brass? I hope we can get some good commercials out of this strike, like the Nike ones during the 1994 baseball strike.
Haven't clicked on the link, but seeing "Stern" and "Las Vegas" in the URL inevitably creates a slight increase in nailbiting on the future of the Purple Paupers' stay in Sactown!!!!!
On the one hand, I don't want there to be a lockout, because I don't want to miss basketball. On the other hand, the idea of a new CBA that makes it way harder for stupid GMs to cripple their franchises for half a decade with bad contracts appeals to me.
I like the idea of an NBA where contracts are shorter and it's easier for teams -- particularly small market teams -- to rebuild and/or field a competitive group.
Courtesy of Henry Abbott's terribly sincere piece on Amar'''''''e:
"One of the demonstrations of Stoudemire's commitment to Israel is his budding relationship with Israeli Sacramento King Omri Casspi. But in the video above, Stoudemire calls him "Omar" every time."
So that's "budding" as in "you've got no fucking idea what your new pal's name is yet?"
Sorbo, strikes and lockouts are different. Strikes are when employees walk off the job. Lockouts are when ownership shutters the plant. Or in the NBA's case, the "plant".
Why is it that the general public is so quick to side with the Billionaire owners over the millionaire players? I don't get it. You say the players get too much money, but the owners are the ones really racking it in, while the players provide the labor. Help me out here someone. Make me understand this.
Just get rid of the MLE; teams don't get huge cap space every offseason like they did this one, and it would make teams think really hard before going way over the cap long term if they would only have the LLE and minimum salaries to work with. This would bring down payroll while not completely overhauling the system.
Now excuse me while I go back to pretending that the lockout won't happen.
At any rate, IMO, the only mandated contract rules should be related to a salary cap and percentage of guaranteed money.
Saving multi-millionaires "business men" from themselves? Hilarious.
Yeah - the lockout will happen. The thing that makes me the most sad is that minimum salaries are targeted. Seriously - saving $20K on 100 players? How about shaving $250K on 16 players? The net effect is the same, except for the fact that those sixteen players wouldn't even notice the difference in a weekly paycheck.
I can't believe I'm saying this...but go Stern. The players need to come back to reality. Hell, if they care that much, have the players have one person working with management to verify costs and revenues on each team. Then, stop using contracts and use profit-sharing.
Just how did the Pistons ever come to choose that horrendous color scheme anyway?
I like the idea of an NBA where contracts are shorter and it's easier for teams -- particularly small market teams -- to rebuild and/or field a competitive group.
"One of the demonstrations of Stoudemire's commitment to Israel is his budding relationship with Israeli Sacramento King Omri Casspi. But in the video above, Stoudemire calls him "Omar" every time."
So that's "budding" as in "you've got no fucking idea what your new pal's name is yet?"