Great read on the last lockout

[Rastapopoulos]

Reminded me of some great quotes

Oct. 26, 1998: A story in the New York Times reveals details of an unusually candid Kenny Anderson's finances. In it he notes that upkeep and insurance on his eight vehicles costs about $75,000 annually, and says, "I was thinking about selling one of my cars. I don't need all of them. You know, just get rid of the Mercedes." It becomes the second-most famous player quote of the lockout, right behind New York center Patrick Ewing's, "We make a lot of money but we spend a lot of money." No doubt those have been Exhibits A and B in players association huddles over what not to say if this year's talks unravel.

Oct. 28, 1998: The smell of sulfer is in the air after a meeting with full union membership. It stretches past midnight and features a pair of famous exchanges. In one, Chicago guard Steve Kerr calls parts of the owners' latest proposal "an insult," triggering a similar remark from Stern about the players' desired 63 percent split of revenues. More famously, the Bulls' Michael Jordan gets into it with Washington owner Abe Pollin (who later would hire him as a player and part-owner) and tells Pollin, "If you can't make a profit, you should sell your team." A young Stephon Marbury reportedly was amused, saying, "Get a load of the old dude."

Dec. 19, 1998: Sixteen players participated in the exhibition game before a crowd of 9,512, with Ewing's team beating a squad headed by Alonzo Mourning 125-119. All proceeds were donated to charity after the "financial need" claim for a players' share earned public ridicule.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Good set of photos from SI.com

 

[Natebishop3]

If they've learned anything from the last lockout, it's that some players need to have their diets supervised. If I were the Blazers I'd tell Brandon to put Ray Felton on fatty watch.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

If they've learned anything from the last lockout, it's that some players need to have their diets supervised. If I were the Blazers I'd tell Brandon to put Ray Felton on fatty watch.

Maybe we can get Chris Johnson to follow him around and snatch food out of his hand, or at least goaltend before it goes in the hole.

 

[Minstrel]

I've heard of hunger strikes. Can the NBA institute a hunger lockout, so players stay trim?

 

[Natebishop3]

Maybe we can get Chris Johnson to follow him around and snatch food out of his hand, or at least goaltend before it goes in the hole.

That's a great idea. They could live together and the comcast could put it on that terrible network.

 

[PapaG]

If they've learned anything from the last lockout, it's that some players need to have their diets supervised. If I were the Blazers I'd tell Brandon to put Ray Felton on fatty watch.

Felton is a stocky guy who has never had a weight problem, and those who have coached him have nothing but good things to say about him.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

felton isnt fat i dont think, he just has a round head

 

[BlazerCaravan]

felton isnt fat i dont think, he just has a round head

Ninja Turtle mkII!

 

[huevonkiller]

The regular season is a little long anyway.... I don't mind the skip to the post-season.

 

[handiman]

Maybe we can get Chris Johnson to follow him around and snatch food out of his hand, or at least goaltend before it goes in the hole.

Didn't he try that with Dirk in the first round?

 

[barfo]

Felton is a stocky guy who has a weight problem, and those who have coached him have served nothing but good things to him.

FTFY.

barfo

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Didn't he try that with Dirk in the first round?

God that block was beautiful.

 

[jlprk]

Reminded me of some great quotes

Steve Aschburner, the author, overemphasizes the angle about fans turning against the sport. The media always harps on that in a lockout, yet as soon as play resumes, all the fans are back. The reason attendance is a little down is that corporations take a year before budgeting their season tickets again.

Good set of photos from SI.com

The captions are more important than the pictures, except I like this picture.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mu...07/nba.revisiting.1998.lockout/content.4.html

 

[illmatic99]

Tom Penn on ESPN said he hopes they'll resolve this by Jan, 2013. "They are this far apart on the issues." http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6717292

 

[jlprk]

Tom Penn is not mentioned in that article. I just wasted a few minutes.