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I say let the players vote on whether they will accept the 50/50 BRI spilit and the supposed 95% of agreed to items. It is appearing more likely that 50/50 is the owners best offer and if not accepted soon there offer goes down as does the chances of playing and Bball soon or perhaps for the entire season.
 
Blazinaway said:
I say let the players vote on whether they will accept the 50/50 BRI spilit and the supposed 95% of agreed to items. It is appearing more likely that 50/50 is the owners best offer and if not accepted soon there offer goes down as does the chances of playing and Bball soon or perhaps for the entire season.
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I think 50/50 is likely the best as well. And I also think it will go down if an agreement is not reached this week. The only question I have is whether the NBAPA can somehow cry unfair labor practice and get them to move on that number. The NHL was lucky because a republican was in office at the time, and they are anti union. Obama is pro union, so just thinking out loud I guess.
 
Boston Herald reporting that NBA labor talks to resume Saturday.
 
Looks like they meet again on Saturday. I got some unexpected work and will be in Cancun Fri-Mon working. I will NOT be following these talks on a second by second basis like I have over the past 2 months! My wife made me promise not to, she thinks I will give myself a heart attack! Maybe by me ignoring the updates, something good will happen! Adios muchachos!
 
Roger Mason confirms Boston Herald report that talks between league and union will resume Saturday in NYC.
 
Mediocre Man said:
I have no way to view that here at work. What do they say?
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It says that the position of the owners is shifting away from compromise towards writing off the year and breaking the players completely to force a CBA that REALLY favors the owners (i.e., a reversal of the old BRI split so that now 57% goes to the owners). Chris Broussard reports that the owners figure they'll more than make up any lost money over the lost year in the killer deal they get over its life.
 
HCP said:
Looks like they meet again on Saturday. I got some unexpected work and will be in Cancun Fri-Mon working. I will NOT be following these talks on a second by second basis like I have over the past 2 months! My wife made me promise not to, she thinks I will give myself a heart attack! Maybe by me ignoring the updates, something good will happen! Adios muchachos!
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Cancun, huh? I hope obsessing over the NBA lockout hasn't meant you still think Cancun is purely a tourist paradise. Does the phrase "bag of severed heads" mean anything to you?
 
HAHA! I'll be down there for 48 hours! I promise I'll get home safe.
 
Billy Hunter, Derek Fisher and union board members meet with reporters and deny rift in union.
 
Predictably, Hunter and Fisher denied rift. Hunter said federal mediator might return, but awaiting answer from owners on that issue.
 
Asked if he promised NBA negotiators he'd be able to deliver a 50-50 deal to players, Fisher said, "No I did not."
 
Saturday's bargaining session was arranged yesterday in phone call between Hunter and David Stern, Hunter said.
 
Hunter says Saturday meeting brought about after mediator George Cohen called him earlier in the week & offered to get back involved...
 
Hunter called David Stern Wed. to confirm, said he wouldn't mind Cohen coming back Sat. but that the league had not yet signed off on it.
 
Apparently no small/mid market team likes the 50/50 deal.

Hmm, are they pushing for 47% for the players?
 
League hasn't rejected Cohen's involvement, but hasn't said yes as of yet, Hunter said. Only agreed to meet.
 
Hunter says talk of 50/50 split is misleading bc owners are deducting $600 million in expenses off top
 
The longer this drags on the worse the offers are going be from the side of the owners and the more desperate the players will get.

The players are about to get the financial equivalent of an atomic wedgie.
 
3RA1N1AC said:
billions of dollars? :lol:
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WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
As many as 50 NBA players were part of conference call with anti-trust attorney Thursday discussing union decertification, sources tell Y!
 
Calls included several All-Stars. One source on calls told Y!: "We're beyond frustrated with concessions that have already been made."
 
tribjazz Brian T. Smith
#NBA has pending case requesting all existing contracts are voided if #TheNBPA decertifies.
 
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