NBA players: "No deal"

[BLAZER PROPHET]

A record number of Americans (48 mill) are on food stamps, and millions more are unemployed, but the NBA players say they're getting a raw deal . . . Derek Fisher and Billy Hunter are fools, and the entire player's union is living in a fool's paradise.

If this season is cancelled, I may rethink my commitment to the NBA. I'm sick and tired of spoiled egotistical millionaire jocks who have no grasp on reality.

Add to it that it's usually the NBA players that walk thru kids wanting autographs like their gods. I may be a mega sports fan, but this is too much. Blow it up and start all over.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It's sort of sad... they have the least to lose, don't they? They didn't have to make real sacrifice in their careers to get tens of millions of dollars in contract money, but they're willing to sacrifice today's young players up at the altar of "fairness".

Ed O.

Yep. How sad it all is.

 

[Nate Dogg]

N.B.A = No Basketball Anymore


hahahahahaha

 

[MickZagger]

N.B.A = No Basketball Anymore


hahahahahaha

You're so full of shit your eyes are brown!

 

[jlprk]

A record number of Americans (48 mill) are on food stamps, and millions more are unemployed, but the NBA players say they're getting a raw deal . . . Derek Fisher and Billy Hunter are fools, and the entire player's union is living in a fool's paradise.

If this season is cancelled, I may rethink my commitment to the NBA. I'm sick and tired of spoiled egotistical millionaire jocks who have no grasp on reality.

A record number of Americans (48 mill) are on food stamps, and millions more are unemployed, but the NBA owners say they're getting a raw deal . . . the owners are living in a fool's paradise.

If this season is cancelled, I may rethink my commitment to the NBA. I'm sick and tired of spoiled egotistical billionaire nerds who have no grasp on reality.

 

[Shooter]

A record number of Americans (48 mill) are on food stamps, and millions more are unemployed, but the NBA owners say they're getting a raw deal . . . the owners are living in a fool's paradise.

If this season is cancelled, I may rethink my commitment to the NBA. I'm sick and tired of spoiled egotistical billionaire nerds who have no grasp on reality.

Some of the NBA franchises barely make a profit, or lose money, whereas all of the NBA players have very fat contracts . . . You do the math.

 

[¹²³]

I'm not sure if someone posted this in the other thread, but here is the PDF of owners' proposal.

 

[Shooter]

I'm not sure if someone posted this in the other thread, but here is the PDF of owners' proposal.

Great find! It's fascinating to read the proposal that the players received. It's actually written in plain English, rather than in Lawyer's terms.

I was interested to learn, among other things, that the league places an annual $3 million limit on cash included in any trade. I recall that two of Portland's trades in recent years included a $3 million cash component, and now I know why. That was all they could offer!

 

[Draco]

Some of the NBA franchises barely make a profit, or lose money, whereas all of the NBA players have very fat contracts . . . You do the math.

At the early pre-lockout owner meetings some of the hard line owners were so pissed they yelled at Stern that they would hold out not only one season to get a better deal but cancel two full seasons.

Ultimately if we get more parity in the league, get rid of malcontents on long fat guaranteed contracts, prevent superteams, prevent top payroll teams from signing max MLE guys to $35 million contracts; I would have more interest in the NBA. A lost season or two would be brutal in the short term but if it made for a substantially improved product I’d welcome it.

 

[Draco]

I'm not sure if someone posted this in the other thread, but here is the PDF of owners' proposal.

I found this part on the amnesty very interesting

A modified waiver process would be utilized for players waived pursuant
to the Amnesty rule, under which teams with Room under the Cap could
submit competing offers to assume some but not all of the player’s
remaining contract. If a player’s contract is claimed in this manner, the
remaining portion of the player’s salary will continue to be paid by the
team that waived him.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Great find! It's fascinating to read the proposal that the players received. It's actually written in plain English, rather than in Lawyer's terms.

I was interested to learn, among other things, that the league places an annual $3 million limit on cash included in any trade. I recall that two of Portland's trades in recent years included a $3 million cash component, and now I know why. That was all they could offer!

it used to be capped at 3M per transaction. This proposal would cap it at 3M cumulative per year.

 

[Shooter]

it used to be capped at 3M per transaction. This proposal would cap it at 3M cumulative per year.

Thanks for the clarification.